11 example sentences using bribery.
Bribery used in a sentence
Bribery in a sentence as a noun
Because the people being bribed are the ones who vote on the laws that define illegal bribery.
They were forced upon us by a combination of US government pressure and outright bribery.
Moreover, low-level things like bribery are easy to prosecute because it's easy to prove that money changed hands.
Everyone accepts that 'lobbying' is a polite word for 'bribery' and should be unacceptable in a modern democracy.
In a traditional bribery situation, one bribes the official to get a specific "exception" through.
Well, we may be fighting a war with say, New Zealand at our side, but also investigating a case of attempted bribery where NZ is trying to smuggle sheep into California or some such.
Even if it includes brutal copying of a competitor's business model, or bribery of a government official, or direct corporate espionage being employed.
Because for some pathetic reason, we're apparently still on the cusp of accepting that we are probably almost sure why the bees are dying, but a huge swath of us are turning a blind eye out of scientific ignorance or out of bribery.
Tagged by how they made their money - first mover advantage, hard work and insight, theft, unfair practices, cheating, destroying the environment, war profiteering, rackets, bribery, political corruption, pure luck, ovarian lottery, etc, would be a much more interesting read.
Why should Google engage with an evil, bribery-based, rent-seeking competitor, and their bought politicians, until they run out of relatively easier conquests, and have the revenue from those conquests funding further expansion, and their relationships with independent content creators at a much higher value from a larger customer base?Particularly when those competitors are not seeking to confront Google, and are preferring to play rent-seeking games with anti-neutrality in their networks, thus making their end game even more brittle?
How many college campuses and universities in the world struggle with real problems with real consequences to society like female students getting raped in dark alleys and fraud/bribery/plagiarism and never get the attention they deserve?The fact that this inconsequential squabble gets discussed so much and gets portrayed as the fight between David and "Goliath The Man", instead of being seen as a public tantrum being thrown by a spoiled kid living a cushioned life inside a cocoon made out of hopes and dreams, makes me sick to my stomach.
Bribery definitions
the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
See also: graft