Sentences with phrase «on bribes»

A, who is paying the bribe, does not necessarily have to be an employee of C. However, it is not enough for C to ensure A, for example, agrees by a term in, for example, an agency or representation contract that A does not pass on bribes or advantages.

«I think it's clear to New Yorkers that something's rotten in Albany and we need to see a change,» said Food & Water Watch NY organizer Lauren Shindell, «and I think if Governor Cuomo wants to distance himself, he needs to pull the plug from the CPV power plant that was built on bribes.»

In a sheer coincidence, the United Nations Office for Drug and Crimes (UNODC), the same day, released its own corruption report that said Nigeria spent N400bn annually on bribes to public officials.

The stories of judges becoming very wealthy on bribes paid by litigants in election petitions and other high profile cases have become more pervasive and in matters of the sanctity of the judicial process, appearances are at least as important as the substance.

«The CPV power plant in Orange County was built on bribes, and it's Gov. Cuomo's obligation — if he is a true climate leader, if he is a true climate leader, he must shut this dirty power plant down,»» said Eric Weltman of non-profit group Food & Water Watch.

Two of Tierney's slides detailed and put a price on bribes Mangano and Venditto allegedly accepted from Singh.

I was rushing out of town last week and forgot to include in the Friday Buffet the promised results of the TLT reader poll on bribing kids to eat their vegetables.

I'm not big on bribing, but let me tell you, putting out some chocolate in plain view and informing your child that she can have a piece once they successfully potty WORKS.

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.»

Over the past 10 years, some 14 statewide officeholders, mostly legislators, have been convicted on bribe - taking or embezzlement charges.

I sat in her room for a good hour yesterday debating on bribing her to stay home, yet praying that she would have an incredible adventure this weekend and encounter Jesus in a deeper way.

It presupposes that one is faced with a decision between controlling GHG just for the sake of hurricanes, and forgetting about GHG's and spending money on bribing people to live further from the shoreline.

They have the funding to start renewable power plants and fund new research, but instead they would rather spend it on bribing people in the media to play down global warming

That resulted in fines of $ 10.3 million for Griffiths (based on a bribe of $ 2 million offered to the wife of Chad's ambassador to Canada) and $ 8.2 million for Niko, in which a Bangladeshi official was bribed with a $ 250,000 SUV and a free trip to New York and Calgary.

Not exact matches

Prosecutors say the bribes funded a luxury shopping spree over a two - month period on two continents.

In addition to what many consider to be devious and unethical data harvesting practices, the company's chief executive, Alexander Nix, was captured on a hidden camera proposing using Ukrainian sex workers to bribe or blackmail Sri Lankan politicians.

To do so, they and others paid $ 150,000 in bribes via the church to Gross, its pastor, in exchange for facilitating Murgio's takeover and arranging for Lebedev and others to be put on the credit union's board, prosecutors said.

Disgraced top Communist cadre Sun Zhengcai has admitted taking bribes of more than $ 27m in a video confession televised on state broadcaster CCTV this week.

The film is loosely based on the ABSCAM investigation of the late 1970s and early 1980s, in which the FBI got several members of Congress on videotape agreeing to accept bribes from a man they thought was a wealthy Arab sheik.

The National recently featured a 17 - minute report by Lang on private security firms in Afghanistan using NATO money to bribe insurgents, a topic with only the most tangential link to her beat.

The ruling on Skilling's appeal preserved the statute but narrowed it considerably: henceforth it applies only to fraudulent schemes involving bribes or kickbacks.

«We're seeing a growing number of instances where contractor personnel are being bribed to steal» data from their clients, warns Jay Heiser, a research vice president with Gartner, the IT research and consulting firm, who recently wrote a report on data security.

Besides bribing drivers for last - minute wardrobe add - ons, there's little that's scrappy about the hyper - polished Northwestern University team.

FBI agents arrested former Insys Therapeutics (insy) CEO Michael Babich and five other former company executives on Thursday for allegedly bribing doctors to prescribe an extremely addictive opioid painkiller to patients who didn't need it.

Adding to its headaches, Cambridge Analytica's since - suspended chief executive, Alexander Nix, was caught on tape by a UK news broadcaster suggesting that the firm could use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians it had hoped to defeat.

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.

The company's CEO, Alexander Nix, was also caught on tape by the UK's Channel 4 News telling a potential client that he could entrap potential opponents with bribes and sex.

Meanwhile, the second part of an undercover investigation conducted by the UK's Channel 4 aired today in which Cambridge Analytica executives were caught on tape bragging about bribing and entrapping politicians using hired sex workers to compromise its clients» political opponents.

These landing pages follow up on your offer of some sort of «ethical bribe» in exchange for your prospect's contact info.

In a later conversation featuring Nix, however, the chief executive appears to float the idea that they could entrap candidates with potential bribes, «instantly having video evidence of corruption, putting it on the internet.»

Mr. Anglin also filed a complaint with the Calgary Police reporting he'd received an anonymous death threat after refusing to step aside for Mr. Nixon, and accused what the Red Deer Advocate called «a senior Wildrose Party player» of offering him «in essence a bribe» in return for stepping down — a job with the Alberta Electric System Operator, Alberta Energy Regulator or the Alberta Surface Rights Board, presumably on the assumption the party wins the next election.

But this is one website which offers free and good ideas on investing, not to mention the fact that bribing Vishal doesn't help either.

She would bribe a few of them and get them to spy on each other with full report to her.

Orthodox - Catholic relations throughout the Ottoman period were a history of unremitting and often bloody combat for possession of shrines, rights and privileges — a competition encouraged by the Turks, who took away rights from one church and bestowed them on another whenever it suited Ottoman interests, or whenever an adequate bribe was proffered.

The drug lords need to have their drug income reduced by about 95 percent so they can no longer bribe local and national officials, and can no longer finance government and local police forces to protect their drug traffic, and spread terror throughout all those Mexican cities on the border, and then have the terror cross the border into our American cities.

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.

Our question is: One man in how many, after receiving a bribe for the betrayal of a friend, had returned the money, had it refused, had thrown it on the floor in the house of the Lord, and then had it used to purchase a field from the potter?

Until 1791 Jews had unequal legal standing in Muslim and Christian countries and so had to rely on their wits, bribes or the enlightened self - interest of the governing majority.

He tells the crowd around him how he won a bet in Nebraska: a bribed official in the Big Eight Conference «misofficiated» an important football game, and Jack, who was privy to the official's chicanery, won hundreds of dollars on the game.

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.

The Suffering Servant was not the whole of Israel but the saving minority, the faithful remnant whom opposition could not tame nor any bribe seduce, who with patient, uncomplaining willingness had taken on themselves the punishments that should have fallen upon others.

According to the court transcript, Blazer admitted to receiving large bribes on several occasions:

Beginning in or around 2004 and continuing through 2011, I and others on the FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the selection of South Africa as the host nation for the 2010 World Cup... Beginning in or about 1993 and continuing through the early 2000s, I and others agreed to accept bribes and kickbacks in conjunction with the broadcast and other rights to the 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2003 Gold Cups.

Unabashed that he found himself on the same side as the papacy (which had declined to grant a divorce) and of the conservative University of Louvain, which he commonly castigated, and out of step with most of the other European universities which had all been bribed, he came down resoundingly with a judgement of authentic common sense and morality.

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.

Cumanus, who according to Josephus had been bribed by the Samaritans to remain inactive, did nothing about the incident, and when Jewish zealots took vengeance on the criminals he attacked them.

As if to prove he had other matters on his mind, twelve years later John produced Bribes: The Intellectual History of a Moral Idea, a study that begins in Egypt two thousand years before Christ and ends with a discussion of Abscam, an FBI sting operation that sent seven U.S. Congressmen and one Senator to prison in the early 80s.

Was it mainly the soldiers who mocked and beat him, or did it include the passersby who taunted him, the officials who had passed sentence on him, the spineless disciples who had fled, the collaborator who had betrayed him for a bribe?

I will have to bribe my husband with a beer to turn on the BBQ.

There were promises of vegan chocolate, and so Aaron rushed home from his end - of - day meeting, we took the dogs on a quick walk around the block and distracted them with treats (Truth: I bribe them with treats every time I leave, even if it's for 5 minutes.