Sentences with phrase «like bribing»

It's easy to forget that Julianne Moore, Scoot McNairy, Michelle Dockery, Nate Parker, Corey Stoll and Lupita Nyong» o are all in the film as well, but when you've got Neeson doing things like bribing unruly passengers with free international flights to save the day, there's just no way anyone else can come close to stealing the spotlight.

In such a way, the giving of the first portion becomes less of an offering and sacrifice, and more like a bribe.

You could give her a candy bar and instantly stop this meltdown but, like the bribe, what do you think will happen the next time you're out in public and your child wants something?

At any rate, the Romans want him to pay a tribute, basically like a bribe or something like that, so that they won't invade.

In the trad book world, hardcover books are given freely to reviewers, but in Amazon's world, where a free video game or computer may be given to a reviewer rather than a mere book, it can seem like a bribe.

(they receive some minor extra benefits — like a bribe).

In November 2000, FPL Energyís attorney refused to discuss the issue of any payment that the Town might receive if the proposed «wind farm» were to be approved, stating that they «do not want it to look like a bribe.»

Some parents worry that rewards for good behaviour are like bribes, but they aren't the same.

Not exact matches

After nearly 400 pages, as the authors catalogue all the wounded players, corrupt tutors and bribes, the individual scandals and outrages begin to seem inconsequential, like mere symptoms of a deeper sickness.

What constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace varies, but as theAAUW notes, it includes behaviors like «unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, direct or indirect threats or bribes for sexual activity, sexual innuendos and comments, sexually suggestive jokes, unwelcome touching or brushing against a person,» among others.

But tipping is actually perceived as rude in some countries like Japan, where the gesture is interpreted to mean that you're saying a worker can't be expected to provide good service without a bribe.

Now, if the Fed decides to gobble - up still more Treasury or government - agency securities, putting a like sum of fresh reserves at banks» disposal, it can still keep inflation at bay by hiking the IOER enough to bribe banks to hoard the reserves instead of lending them out.

The bribes for Amazon mirror the ones offered to other corporations (like the $ 3 billion Wisconsin just gave to Foxconn for a proposed manufacturing site), or sports teams who will only stay in cities with a publicly funded new stadium.

Their leaders will be upset even for something like a Muslim - like character tossing some garbage out of an expensive car or maybe a crooked Muslim - like politician taking bribes.

Bribes are what have ruined this country like few other things.

They almost look like prepaid bribes.

One might ask whether the city is acting like those unwise parents in infantilising citizens by bribing them to be good.

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.

Muslims can not be bribed like the pseudo-christians in the West.

That tactic doesn't resound in a decadent society like ours so you have to bribe young people with money for college.

They would if he / she appeared to be a dazzling intellect (IQ over 90) and made it clear they would act like a ho for rightwingnut bribes and agenda.

We don't threaten or bribe people into the Kingdom of God, but simply lay a grand vision for what life could be like with Jesus.

To maintain domination some American officials seem willing to bribe the leaders of foreign governments, to seduce their military officers from national loyalties, to make whole nations dependent on our low - cost food, to spy out the deepest political secrets, and to treat other nations like American provinces that we may invade when they become too independent.

At their worst they became very like the pagan rituals which the Bible text holds not to be pleasing to God or appropriate to men, occasions for offering sacrifices in order to bribe God and buy off his anger.

Like most of Noonan's books, Bribes is still in print and assigned classroom reading.

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.

And I will also probably bribe my child to stay out of the kitchen with an ice cream like this.

He had to kiss a lot of ass and bribe a lot of politicians and then Mcgregor pulls this shit and makes the ufc look like a clown show

Wenger is shiit I want him out but this part of referees been human they can make mistake is what I don't like, why do players get punished if they mistakenly tackles a player with red cards are they not humans and prone to mistakes.there should be form of punishment for any ref that cost a club points by his mistakes.just like someone said they can eaaily take bribe and make mistakes knowing fully well they will not be punished.F A is crap.

The main problem is that the board and Wenger will try to bribe fans trust by spending a little bit of cach (escape investment), just like we did with Ozil back then, to ease fans down, but do nt take the bait.

Diack's son involved in accepting bribes from countries like Qatar for the naming of the world champs.

up, the control of whose votes, long before Bin Hammam tried recently to bribe them, enabled him to get whatever he liked whenever he liked out of Sepp Blatter.

Although all of us were parent bloggers we were doing our darndest to be focused and not be interrupted by our kids (I super duper bribe / threaten my kids during these calls) but Nicole brought up the same and how her kids deal with it and I thought she's just like us.

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

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.

For those who missed the first post and the poll, I'd written about a study which found that young kids who were bribed with a physical reward were more likely eat vegetables they didn't like, even three months after the study, than kids who'd been praised for eating hated vegetables or had been simply asked to try them.

What if you've been using material bribes, like toys, to get your child cooperating?

With some bribing and guidance he found a recipe that he liked and also insisted on a dessert recipe.

Typical discipline techniques — like time - outs, bribes, and counting to 3 — don't work for the long - term.

Bribe her with the things that she likes so that you can make the situation in favor of you.

Just remember this: bribing sounds like this, «if you do such and such, I will give you such and such.»

A tiny candy bribe, like an M&M for every potty tinkle, is famous parental potty training fodder.

Given that their other Food Heroes include people like Ann Cooper, Jamie Oliver and Joel Salatin, you can be forgiven for wondering if I gave them a hefty bribe or something... But however it happened, I'm so honored and want to thank Robyn McCord O'Brien and The Allergy Kids Foundation for the recognition, even if it feels undeserved!

But if you're like most parents, you may have found yourself nagging, commanding, and bribing your child to eat healthy foods.

But it's definitely no secret that toddlers like lots of praise and sometimes expect lots of presents for good behaviour, which may have something to do with the bribes we as parents use during desperate times.

It's like you have to bribe someone to clean poop off of them!

But it played well with the image of Mr Osborne as a wise and prudent future chancellor - not offering bribes or gimmicks to the public like Labour do and speaking honestly about the state of the nation.

To the many lies they have peddled all throughout this campaign season, they have added the most ludicrous of them all — President Mahama and his brother Ibrahim bribing a wimp like Bugri Naabu to malign the NPP's sick septuagenarian flagbearer!

In her new memoir, former Planned Parenthood chief Cecile Richards says Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were, during the 2016 transition, so eager to be recognized as shrewd political dealmakers that they made an offer that felt like a «bribe» — an increase in federal funding for her organization in exchange for its agreement to stop providing abortions.

Surely one day the real story of the term limits debacle will be written, and it will be full of luscious details: the assurance to Christine Quinn that she will be crowned the first female mayor in 2013; the Committee Chairs that were passed around like so many lollipops at a birthday party (Mr. Bloomberg of course in the role of scary clown); the allocation of special funds to right - voting Council members.Basically, a register of threats and bribes and blame - passing that rivals anything else in the history of shady municipal dealmaking.