Sentence examples for a system of bribes from inspiring English sources
As Agnew rose in politics, he worked out a system of bribes and kickbacks from contractors doing business with the state government.
Her Workers' party predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, had all three in spades, but even he also needed a system of bribes – later revealed in the Mensalão (monthly payment) scandal – to buy the votes of smaller parties.
There was once an atmosphere of willingness that made a system of bribes and information exchanges seem, to the people involved, simply a way of working together for a common cause in a climate of public opinion that, unfortunately, required secrecy.
Beavers said managers and promoters like Don King, Cedric Kushner, Bob Arum and Roland Jankelson -- as well as fighters like Franz Botha, Joe Hipp, Axel Schulz, George Foreman and a parade of obscure and mostly inept South American boxers -- were among those who were beneficiaries of a system of bribes for rankings.
But they too have been implicated in human rights abuses and what Jose Miguel Vivanco, executive director of the Americas division of Human Rights Watch, called "the whole system of bribes, threats, extortion, privileges and surveillance by which this government has preserved and accumulated power".
An investigation of such payments has spread to at least six countries and forced the company to review 420 million euros ($544 million) in payments, and has put pressure on Siemens to explain how the suspected system of bribes went unchecked by top management.
Criticizing the PRI by name, he commented, "I don't believe that there has been in Latin America any case of a system of dictatorship which has so efficiently recruited the intellectual milieu, bribing it with great subtlety".
The law contains two parts: it prohibits bribing a foreign official for the purpose of "obtaining or retaining business," and it requires that public companies file proper financial statements and maintain a system of internal controls.
A system of accountability.
The difference is that Indians are protesting what is illegal — a system requiring bribes at every level of governance to get anything done.
