Sentence examples for a bribes from inspiring English sources

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However, once the budget has gone through parliament, Mr Mori will probably go.See article: Japan's prime-ministerial hopefulsIndia's ruling coalition was in disarray after a number of politicians and bureaucrats were named in a bribes scandal.

Last week The Washington Post discovered that at least one of them, the Dora market, is a Potemkin village, open only a few hours a day and produced by $2,500 grants (a k a bribes) bestowed on the shopkeepers.

In what Labour described as a "bribes Budget", Mr Lawson cut the basic rate of income tax by 2% to 27%, froze excise duties, abolished the tax on on-course betting, cut the duty on unleaded petrol and further reduced so-called "death duties".

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See articleHard graftBrazil's Supreme Court indicted 40 people, including José Dirceu and other senior former leaders of the ruling Workers Partyy, on criminal charges of corruption over the mensalão scandal, a bribes-for-votes scheme revealed two years ago.

Although he had not been accused of any wrongdoing in the corruption investigation, which was focused on a bribes-for-licenses scandal that occurred while he was secretary of state, the fallout from it all but buried him politically.

James Brooke (NYT) ARGENTINA: IMMUNITY VOTE The lower house of Congress, under pressure from a bribes-for-votes scandal, voted to end a sweeping immunity protecting lawmakers, judges and government ministers from prosecution.

"Because of a bribe.

That would be a bribe.

And a bribe.

A bribe-seeking bureaucrat denied permission.

Most Indians have paid a bribe.

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