Sentence examples for any thing of value from inspiring English sources

The federal bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 201(b), criminalizes the corrupt promise or transfer of any thing of value to influence an official act of a federal official, a fraud on the United States, or the commission or omission of any act in violation of the official's duty.

Rory is metaphorical salvage herself, a thing of value roughed up, beautiful but brutalized.

It's illegal, of course, to trade a thing of value for a vote for speaker or for lieutenant governor.

"But I think that there is no question that the naming rights for a stadium or a library or a significant facility are a thing of value".

Opposition research "is not a thing of value," Sekulow also claimed.

RTW for Less contends a neutrality pact is a thing of value.

The Court said that bribery must be an exchange of a thing of value for "an official act".

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals departed from precedent in two other circuits and reversed, saying that "it seems apparent that organizing assistance can be a thing of value".

(d) Proof that any elector, election official, or canvassing board member was given or offered a bribe or reward in money, property, or any other thing of value for the purpose of procuring the successful candidate's nomination or election or determining the result on any question submitted by referendum.

Blackstone described extortion as "an abuse of public justice, which consists of an officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due".

In two prior cases, one in the Fourth Circuit and one in the Third Circuit, courts have heard challenges to card-check agreements as a violation of Section 302 of the Taft-Hartley Act, which prevents employers from paying "any money or other thing of value" to a union.