Sentence examples for basically bribed from inspiring English sources
Media junkets, for the uninitiated, are weekend retreats at which relatively obscure movie critics are wined and dined, afforded three to five minutes of direct "access" to the stars, and basically bribed into giving the movie favourable coverage back home.
On Jimmy Kimmel Live last month, Oliver declared that "the food companies of America own you," adding that "These moron frozen food companies -- pizza industry, french-fry industry -- have basically bought, bribed, bullied Congress, who have completely let everyone down, into basically making it okay to feed [students] french fries every day".
"Greece is basically being bribed not to default.
The U.S. is now basically trying to bribe Bibi to reverse his position.
In the end, kindhearted Theo basically had to bribe Gauguin to go to Arles and live with his brother, advancing him money on sales that had not yet happened.
"They're basically willing to bribe you to do anything but foreclosure," said Guy Cecala, publisher of trade publication Inside Mortgage Finance.
After seeing how they've bribed, bullied and basically generally rightsholders after the YouTube acquisition, its nice to imagine what they could do on our behalf if they were running AllofMP3 as well.
(It doesn't help that while Republicans were debating Thursday, Clinton was taking selfies with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, or that Jeb responded to a question about the Bush dynasty Thursday by referring to himself as "Veto Corleone").. What Trump is basically asking is if Republicans would rather vote for the candidate who's getting bribed, or the one doing the bribing.
Bank officials are bribed.
