Sentences with phrase «offer bribes»

In a board faced with the challenge of not enough directors, don't just lower standards and offer bribes.

Only users who offer bribes must purchase credits to chat with the person who accepts his bribe.

Last September Wade started Carrot Dating, a mobile app that requires men to offer bribes to women for dates.

«It is also abused when private agents actively offer bribes to circumvent public policies and processes for competitive advantage and profit.

Ghana's laws make corruption a high - risk venture, but, in reality, many see it as a thriving venture where businesses evade tax, public officials receive bribes to facilitate transactions and ordinary citizens are compelled to offer bribes before basic services — including birth certificates, passports, driving licences, electricity meters — are delivered.

Instead, you should be prepared to cut corners, offer bribes or do some foolish things before you get along.

Kids have been known to offer bribes for the privilege of attending the parties I host.

On August 15, 2013, Hackland R.S.J. released his decision finding Mr. Karigar guilty of entering into an agreement with others to offer bribes to Air India officials and India's Minister of Civil Aviation, contrary to s. 3 (1)(b) of the CFPOA.

It may be that the sales manager who feels the need to offer bribes simply isn't very good at his job and is looking for ways to succeed without having sufficient talent or making sufficient effort.

Accepting or offering bribes or gifts is always unethical.

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.

The Court confirmed that merely agreeing to offer a bribe constitutes an offence even where the bribe is never actually offered or paid.

Asked about this during a break in his trial, Kulikov confirmed the meetings but denied offering a bribe.

«Our treasury rifled; our credit shaken; the poor laborer asking vainly for his honest wages day after day; the rich official reveling in disreputable gains; an enormous debt heaped upon us we know not how; our schools decaying, our teachers cowering before their Catholic masters; our press, when it ventures to complain, threatened with violence or insulted by offered bribes; the interests of the city neglected, its honorable reputation gone.»

Leaders from various opposition political parties told me that the U.S. embassy offered them bribes in an effort to get them to withdraw from Nicaragua's electoral process in 1984.

Testifying under immunity, they said Errico gave or offered them bribes ranging from $ 1,500 to $ 7,500 to «hold» their horses.

Being a parent sometimes means offering gifts or rewards for good behavior — or even offering bribes.

In China the campaign has caused a big stink on social media since China Central TV reported that Danone's Chinese brand Dumex had offered bribes to doctors and medical staff to promote its mother and baby products.

If preschool children have to behave for longer periods of time, it may be a good idea to offer a bribe before the event.

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.

He's offering them a bribe — if they sell off our local assets they are allowed to keep 100 % of the proceeds.

The fallout from the allegations saw Mahama Ayariga charged with contempt of Parliament, and subsequently compelled to apologize for the bribery allegations he made against the committee, and the Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, who he said had offered the bribe to have his nomination for the portfolio passed.

A senior official of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ishaq Salihu, has told a Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt that a former Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Mr. Robert Obuoha, offered him a bribe of N150, 000 and told him to use the money in buying recharge cards.

«And, remember that two Senior Advocates of Nigeria were being tried for offering bribes without their accomplice judges.»

«They're all going to suffer very real consequences and certainly the individuals who offered the bribes are going to suffer very real consequences.»

Singh, the restaurant owner, was arrested last year for allegedly offering a bribe to an Oyster Bay town official and for improperly collecting over $ 1 million from FEMA in Superstorm Sandy relief.

He got dragged into the federal corruption probe when he was caught on a wire offering a bribe to Nelson Castro, a Bronx assemblyman who had agreed to cooperate with the government to get out of a perjury charge.

The Commission did not also confirm the claim that the its two officers were offered a bribe.

An insurgent Democratic challenger claims he was offered a bribe to get out of his race against 24 - year veteran Manhattan - Brooklyn Rep. Jerry Nadler — who immediately called the charge «defamatory.»

Indeed, 2011, Ghana's own pollster, Ben Ephson, confirmed a wikileaks cable that Akufo - Addo's nephew, Gabby Otchere - Darko, came to offer him a bribe of $ 20,000 so he would publish opinion polls in favour of Akufo - Addo ahead of the 2008 elections.

A top State Department official offered a bribe — a «quid pro quo» — to an FBI official in an attempt to declassify certain emails from Hillary Clinton's private server that were previously deemed classified, according to FBI documents released today.

As if that wasn't enough, Sampson was also caught on tape in 2012 attempting to arrange a meeting between ex-Queens state Sen. Shirley Huntley and a businessman allegedly offering bribes to secure government contracts, according to authorities.

In 2002 a law was brought in to forbid British companies from offering bribes to third parties to secure business.

The charges also detailed that favored companies donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Governor Cuomo's re-election campaign in addition to offering bribes to the now - former Cuomo Administration official named in the probe.

According to him, citizens create an enabling environment for police officers to be corrupt by continuously offering bribes to them whenever they commit crimes.

Rules aside, athletes have asked scientists for gene injections that have desirably revamped the bodies of patients or mice, even offering bribes [source: Reynolds].

You offer the bribe and the other person pays up..

With the app, people can motivate other people to go on dates with them by offering a bribe, or dangling the carrot.

Eventually my group even began offering bribes for the Sheriff to search other people's bags.

Who's the more corrupt, the private sector executive who offers a bribe, or the public official who takes it?

iii) «The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) charged KPMG senior manager Leung Sze - chit, 32, of offering a bribe of HK$ 100,000 (US$ 12,900) in February to his subordinate, Lau Shuk - ting, «as a reward for preparing the accountant's report in the prospectus for the global offering of Hontex.»

They agreed on the need to carefully document evidence of corruption, and met with a film director who helped Katembo with undercover cameras to record footage of SOCO and its contractors offering bribes and discussing illegal activities.

In the criminal proceedings, the prosecution alleged that Mr Dowdell had persuaded Mr Heath, Mr Gangar and Mr White to hand over $ 250,000 to him to enable him to offer a bribe to an unnamed US government official.

In the USA, anti-bribery laws prohibit a company from offering bribes or kickbacks to government officials.

If a channel partner of U.S. company X offers a bribe, would X be hold liable if it knew...

In brief, s. 119 is designed to prevent people from offering bribes to sitting government officials, and to deter government officials from taking them.

He went on to describe a potential scheme involving offering a bribe to a candidate and then releasing a video of the deal to the public.

He spoke of offering bribes to candidates while secretly filming them and putting the footage online, of employing fake IDs and bogus websites.

They also floated the option of setting up meetings with opponents in which they're sneakily offered a bribe and caught on video.

Instead, you may try and manipulate your child in a very emotional and sensitive way and may sometimes even offer them a bribe in exchange of doing what you are asking them to do.