Sentence examples for blatant bribe from inspiring English sources

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The chairman of the Arizona House Judiciary Committee was caught on videotape jovially stuffing a gym bag with $55,000 in cash, a blatant bribe for his vote.

That said, we at CrunchGear are not common whores and would never accept such a horrid and blatant bribe.

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To achieve preferential treatment, would-be oligarchs initially relied on the blatant bribing of government officials.

The street-savvy but idealistic Officer Serpico was appalled at the cliquishness and the payoffs — free meals as well as big, blatant bribes — from criminals, gamblers, numbers men and ordinary merchants whom he saw as a beat cop in Brooklyn's 81st Precinct and later while working vice and racketeering.

To nurture an arrangement for this to happen, Australia agreed to provide over A$1m to pay the unpaid debts owed by Nauruans to Australian hospitals, as blatant a bribe as one could imagine.

No one will ever know -- but the backroom dealing won't be as blatant as bribing Nebraska with free Medicare to sign on to socialized medicine.

On the contrary, in a blatant pre-election bribe, our shameless chancellor has been offering the so-called "grey vote" something for nothing with a new 4% bond issue at a time when most interest rates for savers are close to zero.

I'm not sure if that was a blatant attempt at a bribe or not, but I'm above such things.

But the bribes and extortion grew more blatant, as did Mr. Fujimori's efforts to hold on to power.

There, in the course of scrupulously fulfilling his duties as a tax inspector, he'd reported to national authorities the blatant tax evasion and other corrupt acts — including the attempts to bribe him — undertaken by those politicians.

Blatant lie.

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