Sentence examples for bribe acts from inspiring English sources

Felix recognizes Paul's "offenses" as a Jewish matter (Acts 24:5-6) but detains him for two years hoping for a bribe (Acts 24:24).

It did not apply to non-Singapore citizens such as permanent residents and foreigners working for the Government who received bribes for acts which would be done in Singapore.

That is, the conscience of even a persecutor must be respected, such that although it is regarded as mistaken, the individual should not be forced or even bribed to act against it.

This inquiry would entail, for example, sending a parliamentary fact-finding mission to the EU countries where CIA secret detention sites allegedly existed and gathering all relevant information and evidence on possible bribes or other acts of corruption linked to the CIA programme.

Ms. Panfilova said she worried that even the news of the role of a bribe in the terrorist act would have little effect on corruption here, because among Russians bribes are an ingrained part of life.

"The SNP might think the announcement of these projects will act as bribe for voters ahead of the separation referendum in 2014, but people see right through this sort of thing".

Davina Isackson and Bruce Isackson, the president of a Bay Area real estate firm, were accused of paying a college admissions consultant $600,000 to get one daughter into UCLA and another into USC through bribes and other deceitful acts, court records show.

"Corruption" refers to the ordinary system of kickbacks and bribes; "fraud" is where an official takes a bribe and still does not act.

Noah commented on one pharmaceutical executive and former stripper who allegedly bribed and engaged in sexual acts with doctors she was trying to persuade to prescribe more opioids.

"All three compounded the vice of what they did by conspiring to extort what were in substance bribes from Liliya Shobukhova by acts of blackmail.

It found the four men had "acted dishonestly and corruptly and did unprecedented damage to the sport of track and field... [having] conspired to extort what were in substance bribes from the athlete by acts of blackmail".