Sentences with phrase «bribes because»

I've also heard of sticker charts that culminated into a small treat or gift at the end of an agreed upon period, which is like a double bribe because kids lose their damn minds over stickers.

Prosecutors say the payments were a bribe because Percoco, at the same time, was using his top position with Cuomo to assist Kelly's firm, Competitive Power Ventures, weave its way through the state bureaucracy to build a power plant in the lower Hudson Valley.

Meanwhile, on Thursday, Edward Mangano's defense attorney, Kevin Keating of Garden City, sought to establish that the money Gulino gave Mangano couldn't have been a bribe because the contractor got nothing improper or unusual in return from the county executive.

Not exact matches

Holiday wants you to believe he is a crusader fighting for the public good, revealing the secrets he's learned because he's «tired of a world where blogs take indirect bribes, marketers help write the news, reckless journalists spread lies, and no one is accountable for any of it.»

This endless scroll of pop - ups, shameless pleading, and thinly disguised bribes is funny because it's instantly recognizable.

Morrison, for his part, sees facilitation payments as dangerous because there's never been a numerical threshold distinguishing them from bribes.

If fact, G loves the existence of the righteous atheist so much more because the righteous atheist is motivated neither by fear nor eternalising bribes to do the right thing.

After all, they do it because they think it is the right thing to do, rather than because of bribes (heaven) or threats (hell).

But G is cautious about those of us who acknowledge Him, because we are mostly motivated by fear and bribes and eternal goodies.

Christians in this country need to totally abandon the two corrupt parties we have, because those who are seated in the seats of making decisions will NEVER abandon their practices, for their love of power and the love of BRIBE that comes abundantly to them from those who have means to give it, in order to receive favors in form of making our country's laws and policies to further allow them to do their self serving practice, disregarding those which they hurt by them.

Christianity spread to the Norsemen because Rollo was tired of the sea and he got bribed with an illigitimate daughter of the «christian» king Charles the Simple.

'' The police wouldn't help me because they get bribes from the brothel owners,» Srey Neth said, adding that senior police officials had come to the guesthouse for sex with her.

Israel costs us trillions in everything including bribes to other countries to stop them from attacking Israel because of Israel's genocide.

Religion however has tried to supersede our humanity and tell us it's okay to kill those other humans because they aren't like you, they don't worship the same God as you, they don't have the same hope for an afterlife, they aren't special and «chosen» by God like you... that is the true face of evil on the planet, the one that tries to make you forget your humanity with bribes and extortion.

Actually, non-believers that do good deserve far more credit than Christians because they do it because they feel it's right, rather than due to bribes (heaven) and threats (hell).

We can not bribe God into answering our prayers because of how good we are, or what we have done for Him.

Anyone who is simply behaving because of the threat of damnation or the promise of heaven has been bribed or extorted for their good behavior which means they are the worst kind of people, those with no morals of their own, no empathy for others and no love.

If either of those are why you obey those laws, then you are a terrible person who doesn't deserve the live they have been given, because if the only reason you are not a murdering, thieving r a p i s t is because you have been bribed or scared into obedience, then you are not worth the kb it takes to store these letters on CNN's server.

Even in the courts the poor had no hope because the rich bribed the judges (5:10 - 15).

«Because after all the bribes, threats and promises that have patched together this rickety coalition, we can not prevent another suicide bomber being born — and nobody can tell us how to dodge this devil's cycle of despair, hatred and, yet again, revenge.»

Because of the small list of common household ingredients required, I am sure I will end up making this in a pinch for dinners, parties, bribes, rainy days, last minute visitors and the like.

But after the retirement of his father he is always number 7 because he can no longer be bribed for.

Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner accepted a $ 1 million bribe to back Morocco's bid for the 2010 World Cup, but gave his support to the South Africa campaign because it gave him more money, the Telegraph reports.

@ a star you could be right because when marseille (my hometown) won the CL league many many years ago:) they were done for bribing opponents but they were rumours of doping, im sure chris» magic» waddle could tell us, apparently they used to get injections before games, all this stuff going on was the reason WENGER decided to leave french football because he thought it was impossible for others french teams to win the league in a fair manner!!

These forces are at liberty to do everything in the shadows because the FA is useless, the PIGMOB is a dictatorship, the media have their own self - serving agenda, the authorities are too busy pretending to care, the EPL is image - conscious but in a negative way, the teams don't want to rock the boat (including Arsenal), some players are so greedy that bribing is easily inculcated, and so on.

Bribing your children may seem like a shamefully poor parenting technique but it's not because it works, damn it.

While a peaceful Thanksgiving dinner at Grandma's may qualify as an emergency, the supermarket check - out line probably doesn't, simply because it happens so often, and your child will learn how to use it to extort bribes.

If you explained to an elderly Chinese woman how some people in the U.S. keep themselves inside with a 3 - year - old for a week at a time bribing a naked child with candy and an ipad in order to pee in a flush toilet, she would keep asking you questions about what you were talking about... thinking that perhaps she was translating something incorrectly in her head... because the idea of all of that sounded...

Don't force feed them and don't bribe them into eating more just because

A boy potty training is in a way a little tricky because you need to bribe the kid with some stickers and toys.

And as tempting as it may be to use Santa to bribe kids, I think in the end it'll be better if they behave because they know you want them to and because they know it's the right thing to do — not because they think some red - suited stranger won't give them presents if they're bad.

Because I didn't want to do that again, I put the mother of all bribes on the table.

Although lately I've been tempted to start in with the threat / bribe aspect of the Santa story because T has been so, well, so BAD.

«Some parents frown on this because they feel they're bribing their kids,» says Mindell.

A child having a downstairs tantrum (feeling truly emotionally overwhelmed) can not just stop the tantrum no matter how much you threaten or bribe her to, because she's locked in her primitive downstairs brain and can not access the part that houses reason.

The money was ill spent, however, because despite the bribe, the businessman did not receive a lease for additional space from the Port Authority.

Why should parents who move home, fake religion, bribe schools or use any of the other dubious methods employed to ensure children get into a good state school be rewarded just because they have not gone down the route of the «evil» private schools?

Comment, because this is opinion: most likely, because the bribe receivers get all the money.

From the start the project was all bribes and bullying, fundamentally undemocratic when the regional figureheads would be created without consulting voters via referendums because the powerful posts were likely to be rejected.

Whereas, the Cronje affair in cricket was partly because of the relative lack of money in the game - how little he could be bribed for - and of course the sheer pointlessness of even the proper (non-stanford) one day game.

Because the US is so polarized politically, there is very little chance that a Republican controlled House of Representatives would choose to impeach a Republican President even if there were overwhelming evidence that he had accepted a direct bribe from the Russian government (such as, for hypothetical example, a 19 % interest in the Russian gas company Rosneft) in return for promulgating policies favorable to the Russians, let alone confirmation of the allegations that his Presidential campaign had coordinated election strategy and tactics with the Russians.

Cuomo actually does come up in the allegations, very tangentially: At one point in the U.S. attorney's complaint, Smith is quoted as having said to an undercover F.B.I. agent, as part of an explanation for why the Republican county chairmen were unlikely to go back on a bribe - based bargain with him, «I got them already asking me about judgeships, because judgeships now come through here, it comes through the governor.»

«Merely because Singh pleaded guilty to bribing de Blasio using campaign contributions and Mangano using personal enrichments does not make the cases similar either factually or legally,» Treinis Gatz wrote.

In addition to attacks on Howe's credibility, defense filings argue that there was no illegal «quid pro quo» in the case — that all the matters Percoco is accused of intervening in were resolved on their virtues, not because of bribes.

In other words, because Smith attempted to bribe his way to a «cross-endorsement,» we ought to ban cross-endorsements.

The Joe Ghartey committee arrived at its conclusion because «Mr. Mahama Ayariga failed to prove that indeed Hon. Boakye Agyarko gave money to Hon. Joseph Osei - Owusu to be distributed to Members of the Appointments Committee with a view to bribe them.»

Of one of the alleged bribe deals, he told jurors: «That should disgust you because it's a crime.»

because he had refused to pay the bribes demanded by Seminerio.

Although Percoco is still facing federal bribery charges, Judge Valerie Caproni agreed to dismiss a charge against Percoco of using his power to extort the Syracuse developers for the bribes, because he wasn't technically a state official at the time.

Legal (prescription and nonprescription) drug costs in the US are insanely high because a Bribed Congress passed fiat laws to mandate this as a «favor to their corporate bribers.