Sentences with phrase «use as a bribery»

Another option if you want to keep all the spinach in the recipe is to make Cheddar Biscuits and use them as bribery so that they have to eat one shell to get one biscuit.

Not exact matches

At the other end of the spectrum would be infraviolence, such as the subtle bribery used by a parent who is aware of the power of Skinnerian positive reinforcement applied to a child.

Time - outs are used punitively, as are other bargaining methods, such as bribery, rewards, and consequences.

Our leading psychiatric politicians have successfully managed to use the medium of universal bribery as well as their devious Machiavellian charismatic authorities to subvert the moral authority of elective franchise by skewing it in their favor, exclusively for partisan political advantage.

The complaint alleges that Aiello and Gerardi, COR's president and general counsel, «entered into a bribery scheme whereby the Syracuse developer would make tens of thousands of dollars in payments to Percoco, using Howe as a pass - through to help conceal that the payments to Percoco came from the Syracuse developer, and in exchange, Percoco agreed to use, and did in fact use, his official position and influence to assist the Syracuse developer with a number of issues as the opportunities arose.»

«The problem here is that in some ways what this is based on is the idea that you can violate state law and state prohibitions on using government resources during a campaign as a defense against federal bribery charges,» Kaehny said.

A former village justice in Jefferson County was indicted on charges of bribery and misconduct, charged with using his official position as a judge to reduce a fine in exchange for sexual favors, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office announced on Monday.

Bill de Blasio donor Jona Rechnitz's ties to accused Ponzi schemer Jason Nissen is starting to cause problems for Manhattan federal prosecutors seeking to use Rechnitz as its key witness in an upcoming bribery trial.

Silver, who has been speaker for 21 years, faces five federal charges including conspiracy and bribery and is accused of using his position to obtain millions of dollars in kickbacks masked as legitimate income from two law firms.

He faces five federal charges including conspiracy and bribery and is accused of using his position to obtain millions of dollars in kickbacks masked as legitimate income from two law firms.

Even as he created a pot of secret funding for clandestine disbursement, money that was used in his bribery plot.

While the couple has not been charged with any wrongdoing, their cash has been linked to an alleged plot hatched by City Councilman Daniel Halloran to funnel illegal cash into his campaign coffers using straw donors, which was revealed as part of a larger bribery investigation Tuesday.

Legal observers describe it as an «aggressive» use of the federal honest - services law by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara because it was not a classic cash - in - a-bag bribery scheme, and no government witness explicitly linked Silver's fees with any promised favors in return.

I'm thinking as my «bribery for taking vitamins, collagen and using my Latisse every day» in January, I'm going to go for this gold pair.

These apps don't feel like games, they have no worthy «point,» and in my household, for one, I am just as quickly reduced to bribery in getting my kids to learn their times tables using these apps as with flash cards.

Before you do use their main interest as a means of bribery to perform training tasks, a word of warning.

Bribery is not meant to be used instead of proper training, but in emergency situations you may have to use it as a last resort

(1) extending negligent misrepresentation beyond «business transactions» to product liability, unprecedented in Texas; (2) ignoring multiple US Supreme Court decisions that express and implied preemption operate independently (as discussed here) to dismiss implied preemption with nothing more than a cite to the Medtronic v. Lohr express preemption decision; (3) inventing some sort of state - law tort to second - guess the defendant following one FDA marketing approach (§ 510k clearance) over another (pre-market approval), unprecedented anywhere; (4) holding that the learned intermediary rule does not apply whenever a defendant «compensates» or «incentivizes» physicians to use its products, absent any Texas state or appellate authority; (5) imposing strict liability on an entity not in the product's chain of sale, contrary to Texas statute (§ 82.001 (2)-RRB-; (6) creating a claim for «tortious interference» with the physician - patient relationship, again utterly unprecedented; (7) creating «vicarious» breach of fiduciary duty for engaging doctors to serve as expert witnesses in mass tort litigation also involving their patients, ditto; and (8) construing a consulting agreement with a physician as «commercial bribery» to avoid the Texas cap on punitive damages, jaw - droppingly unprecedented.

They often use bribery as a means of controlling their children.

Do not favor overt control techniques and punishments but are more subtle and uses manipulative control measures such as bribery and praise.