Sentence examples for bounty scheme from inspiring English sources

Re "N.F.L. Suspends Vilma and Three Other Players for Bounty Scheme," May 3: If the N.F.L. was truly serious about rooting out the bounty system, it would suspend the entire New Orleans Saints franchise for a year.

In a scandal that broke in 2008, which is still under investigation, Colombia's Army was implicated in the extra-judicial killings of as many as forty-five hundred people, including many non-combatants, who were murdered to obtain financial benefits offered to soldiers in a government-sponsored bounty scheme.

Cezary Podkul, Reuters: In a 2011 season in which the New Orleans Saints rewarded players for injuring opponents in a "pay-for-pain" bounty scheme, the team was among the most violent in the National Football League, a Reuters analysis shows.

In Goodell's letter to Anthony Hargrove, the former Saint who is one of the players who was suspended, he notes that the union submitted on Hargrove's behalf a signed declaration in which he acknowledged the bounty scheme and his role in it.

So far, though, the discipline for the Saints' involvement in the bounty scheme is more far-reaching than what Goodell did in 2007, when the NFL came down on the New England Patriots for illegally videotaping an opponent.

As it was believed devils would hunt and kill livestock, possibly due to strong imagery of packs of devils eating weak sheep, a bounty scheme to remove the devil from rural properties was introduced as early as 1830.

(Once discovered, an exploit's days are numbered, literally: it becomes a "one day", then a "two day", and so on until the vulnerability it exploits is patched).Such "bug bounty" schemes, however, will struggle to compete with buyers who want to exploit rather than seal vulnerabilities.

The sites that use bounty schemes all use different systems and, Donay says, their reach is often limited because all of the source code needs to be hosted on their sites.

This led to the establishment of bounty schemes in an attempt to control their numbers.

The slow-moving IRS has yet to pay any bounties under the new scheme, which the Inspector General report said still had "deficiencies" in its execution.

The bigger the scheme, the fatter the bounty, leading to a situation not far from legalised bribery – or extortion, depending on which side of the bargain you are on.