Sentence examples for a substantial bribe from inspiring English sources
Finally, Chan and Sukumaran's lawyer has alleged that judges in the Denpasar district court requested payment of a substantial bribe to avoid giving the death penalty to them.
According to evidence submitted at a preliminary hearing, he was captured on tape offering Touré a substantial bribe to destroy a number of documents.
Tolo ran the story, but, Mohseni said, if someone is powerful enough to offer a substantial bribe, "what stops him from killing someone?" In July, 2009, on the eve of a Presidential debate hosted by Tolo, Karzai refused to appear, claiming that the network was biased and that he hadn't had sufficient time to prepare.
Translation: it's amazing what kinds of crises can be made to disappear with a substantial bribe.
Jeffreys browbeat witnesses and juries, cursing his victims, gloating over them and giving guilt the benefit of every doubt except where a substantial bribe had been paid.
Judge Antonio Di Pietro, the hero of Italy's long-running corruption scandal, called in more than half a dozen of fashion's biggest names and caused them to confess to paying substantial bribes to a band of rogue tax inspectors.
In Benin, for example, President Mathieu Kerekou is reported to have offered members of parliament substantial bribes to support a third term, but civil society mobilization and opposition politicians successfully agitated and the attempt was abandoned.
But some brokers are believed to pay illegal and substantial bribes in the form of premiums above a ticket's face price to people who control tickets at the original point of sale.
A series of high level officials have been accused of receiving substantial bribes from drug traffickers.
Substantial bribes have been offered; she never takes them.
Palmeri and McTurk both kept secret bank accounts in various banks in Miami and Europe where their substantial bribes were deposited, prosecutors alleged.
