Sentences with phrase «given as bribes»

There have been a few cases wherein normal average students have occupations in top organizations since they have father or uncle working there as boss or supervisor; whereas bright students are still jobless on the grounds that they don't have a strong reference or enough money to give as bribe.

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and bribed them to eat well all weekend, and then gave them small slices as a reward.
That, as is reported below, Woods was able to bribe the handicapper at one fronton and that Commonas allegedly rigged games gave the Syndicate advantages that may well have increased their profit to much more than 12 %.
There are so many tools you can use to outline responsibilities, mark those achievements and work toward a goal or reward without having to take the route above of bribing and giving your child something every single time she does something that you've defined as her role in your household.
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.
When children are given treats, it's important not to use them as bribes or rewards.
According to the coalition, there are a number of instances where duty bearers accept bribe and fail to discharge their duties as expected of them thus giving room for the illegality to thrive.
«Let us not allow corruption in the system any longer, especially when during the campaign he was seen as incorruptible, whereas the other candidate was seen sitting down with a brother bribing somebody, giving cars and cash to tarnish the reputation of the opponent,» he said.
So in your eyes it is perfectly acceptable for Flanagan to give away public money for no work — as long as he only gives it away to his Republican friends and those other Senators he wants to bribe to support the Republican conference positions?
Attorneys for ex-lobbyist Todd Howe claim in a court filing that what COR Development has described in a lawsuit as an $ 85,000 «loan» to Howe was actually «part of an illegal conspiracy to deprive the public of its intangible right to honest services of an employee of the State of New York by soliciting and giving bribes and gratuities.»
Joseph Scalice, who managed the Water's Edge, spoke to what Singh and prosecutors say is the no - show job Singh gave Linda Mangano as a means of bribing her husband.
Mr. Ayariga also said Mr. Osei - Owusu served as a courier for the bribe money, which was given to the Minority Chief Whip, Mubarak Mohammed Muntaka for onward disbursement.
At one point, he was asked by prosecutor Mirabile, «Did you give these campaign contributions as bribes
«Did you give these contributions as bribes to Bill de Blasio?»
This time the model is even more bizarre, advocating Mayors you won't have to vote for, an end to local government as we know it, and the giving of desperately needed public cash to bribe councils to do away with themselves.
The «purported loan was illegal, as it was part of an illegal conspiracy to deprive the public of its intangible right to honest services of an employee of the State of New York by soliciting and giving bribes and gratuities,» the lawyers wrote.
It's easy to buy this part, given that greedy corporate types go so far as to bribe Dr. Price to give an assessment that works in their favor.
I want to be in this game so badly that I have given all of my star - bits with Nintendo as a bribe!
When it rains it pours, as Larry's loser of a brother (Kind, The Wild) won't leave, his son (Wolff) can't keep out of trouble, and his daughter (McManus) is repeatedly pilfering money from under his nose — and then even his tenure is in question when anonymous letters start coming in questioning his character, made murky by the fact that a student may be trying to bribe him into giving him a passing grade and threatening defamation for the accusation.
The timepieces that play a role in Honig's fictional novel were offered as tributes to Putin the autocrat, a bribe for attention or favor, a more corrupt intention than the Cloisonné liqueur set given to Richard Nixon by Brezhnev during the May, 1972 SALT talks.
I decided to give away the first chapter of my book for free as an ethical bribe to get readers to sign up to my site.
Just be sure your rewards are given in response to good behavior and not used as a bribe to elicit the behavior you want.
All the while everybody has to be wary of the fact that they could be aiding the person who has them marked as a rival, either by the way they've changed the board or by giving them capital as a bribe.
Given Milloy's history of creating misleading polls, being caught lying on behalf of Philip Morris and working with people caught trying to bribe scientists, it's hardly a surprise that he'd write an op - ed so filled with lies, errors, and irrelevancies as this one.
The following year we debated the future of the legal profession in light of Richard Susskind's book The End of Lawyers, and despite being teamed up with the inestimable intellect of UVic law school dean Donna Greschner, and the two of us giving away free dinosaur toys to all the attendees in an attempt to bribe them, we were trounced by University of British Columbia law dean Mary Anne Bobinski and her partner in crime, litigator, rock star and Paul McCartney's good friend, Michal Bain (who tires of being described as the «Bain» of my existence).
One definition in Webster's online dictionary, defines the word «bribe» as: «something valuable (such as money) that is given in order to get someone to do something».
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