Bribe used in a sentence

Bribe in a sentence as a noun

" Both picked a side of a coin and they ended up paying the smaller part of the bribe.

When he agrees, they give him an outrageous bribe amount.

Well, the easiest thing is to bribe the politicians to take our private debts and turn them into public debts.

If he complains, he risks prosecution or, more likely, being asked for another bribe by the police.

"People usually give bribes when they've done something wrong, not when they are entitled to something.

Unless you're talking about their ability to bribe...I'm sorry..."lobby" Congress to pass the laws they like?

This makes it hard to blow the whistle on corrupt officials, because the bribe-giver has also broken the law.

The guy mentioned elsewhere in these comments who was arrested for trying to outright bribe the taxi commission?

If not, the bribe-expecting government workers will keep you waiting till you are ready to hand over the bribe.

Nobody ever wanted a direct bribe, they just wanted him to pay their friends/family for services he didn't need.

Its very hard to do the right thing, when individuals with power will actively work to put a bribe barrier between you and your work.

I have seen, with my own eyes, mothers pawning their wedding jewelry to raise money for bribes so their sons could get a government job.

When a person is born, in the hospital bribes need to be doled out to nurses, doctors and staff if appropriate care is expected.

You can generalize this:Tips to outmaneuver any bureaucracy: know/bribe people on the inside to help you.

Bribe in a sentence as a verb

Don't back into it for what is essentially a hiring bonus and a bribe to throw away much of the work you spent the past x-months caring deeply about.

Moreover, low-level things like bribery are easy to prosecute because it's easy to prove that money changed hands.

Sounds like you'd have a better chance of getting justice in an African dictatorship where at least the dont-rape-me bribe would be affordable.

Instead India seems optimized for the petty bribe seeking bureaucrat.

In a provocative paper based on game theory, Mr Basu argues for the legalisation of some kinds of bribe-giving.

In India, it is almost impossible to get something done without giving a bribe and especially if you need something in time.

"The American republic will endure until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money" Alexis de Tocqueville

The 50% of this thread about sexism is a bit off-topic, and about another 25% is claiming the application process is broken or that beer equates to a bribe.

All of this paperwork and stamping allows perfect opportunities for small time bureaucrats to extract bribes and favors from people who just need to get something done.

"Kaushik Basu, the chief economic adviser to Indias finance ministry, suggests that this may be partly because the law treats both bribe-giving and bribe-taking as crimes.

There are examples aplenty of old pensioners having to bribe the pension officers to collect their own pensions!Corruption is a cruel system that abuses the most vulnerable and weak in society.

They both bribe incumbent owners/renters/voters with an economically valuable seniority privilege, at the expense of the future and flexibility.

-- but they don't check the **** themselves -- they depend on a rating agency -- ratings agencies are paid by the issuers -- they are exploitable -- bribe the rating agency to give my **** a AAA rating, and now I can sell a ton of it -- offer the investor a slightly greater than AAA return, and they love it -- everyone is happy: rating agency is bribed, investor is getting better returns than expected, and I can sell all the **** I can package up -- until it all falls apart.