Sentences with phrase «meant as bribes»

Not exact matches

Bureaucracy is «pretty transparent» as well, meaning «there are no bribes to get things done,» says Skinner, and policies remain fairly consistent.

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.

Such decrees have been cited by Venezuela prosecutors as a means of extracting bribes in some recent PDVSA corruption cases.

The meaning of «agree» in the CFPOA was not limited to an agreement between two parties, one to pay a bribe and one to receive a bribe (as Mr. Karigar had argued), but included an agreement between two parties to offer a bribe to a third individual, the foreign official, who was not a party to the agreement.

meaning, the overall system itself is exploitative and needlessly punitive and just pretty shitty all around, so gaming that dumb system likely doesn't carry the same sort of stigma as, say, embezzling money from your company or taking bribes to vote on a piece of legislation.

I would be lying to you if I said that I've never bribed my child with some sort of food (ahem... potty training) and sometimes it comes down to survival, which may mean offering a box of raisins or a gummy bear once in a while as a reward.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

During their hearing, the judge contended that Sankaran, from Singapore, and Ganeshan, a British national originally from Sri Lanka, had come to the UK in 2013 with the specific intention of building a criminal organisation in English football, aiming to target lower league clubs, as smaller wages meant that players were more susceptible to bribes.

Restaurateur Harendra Singh and prosecutors say he hired Linda Mangano for a no - show job that paid $ 450,000 from 2010 to 2014 as a means of bribing Edward Mangano.

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.

Then, in November 2012, as he was providing meals to county emergency workers, Singh said he bought a $ 7,300 watch for Mangano's son as a means of bribing the executive.

Prosecutors say Singh hired Linda Mangano for a no - show job that paid her $ 450,000 between 2010 and 2014 as one of several means of bribing Edward Mangano and ensuring the county executive's help in securing two county contracts and more than $ 20 million in Oyster Bay - guaranteed loans.

As the years progress and the unit corrupts itself by stealing some of the drugs they were meant to confiscate in order to bribe junkies and dealers into spying for them, the positions on the curve begin to shift.

As BEVs, the Smart Evs qualify for the maximum taxpayer bribe for EVs (# 4,500), which means you'll pay # 16,420 for the ForTwo Electric Drive, # 16,915 for the ForTwo and # 18,600 for the ForTwo Cabriolet.

This does not mean that you will learn to bribe your best friend with treats, or rely on the latest «cool» training tool that happens to come to market; in fact, our training programs will show you how to use yourself as the ultimate reward when training your pal.

Itching for a bribe, he and his less mean colleague — the universally prerequisite good - cop — nabbed us as we were traveling helmet-less on our way to find a watering hole.

As outlined in Ethereum's own FAQ on sharding, the much smaller sizes of shards mean that there's an increased risk of a bribing attack, where a malicious participant pays other nodes to create an alternative chain (thereby allowing her / him to double spend).

We cold even sing Rogers songs, all together in the offices in the mornings, before you go out there into the real estate wars, like Kirby vacumn cleaner door - to - door sales folks are made to do before they thereafter trundle out to sell vacums with free gifts of cheap, bendable knife - and - fork sets as bribes to get past the front doors of suckers, and we all know that a sucker is born every minute, don't we my prostitutes... I mean pros!»