Sentence examples for bribe at the from inspiring English sources

Were you asked for a bribe at the hospital, or when registering property?

Latte didn't even consider accepting the master's bribe; at the next church service, he threw it into the collection plate.

Abdi Aynte, executive director of the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies in Mogadishu, Somalia, said that with porous borders and corrupt police officers, it was relatively easy to cross into Kenya with a bribe at the border.

Mr. Valcke was the unidentified "high-ranking FIFA official" referred to in the 162-page indictment who, prosecutors said, authorized a $10 million bank transfer in 2008 — an alleged bribe at the heart of the federal case.

For instance, giving gifts to traditional rulers is a standard practice in Ghana but that could easily be misconstrued as bribe at the international stage and firms could be caught in such a web.

At one point, Mayor Wagner held a press conference accusing the chairman of the state Democratic Party of offering Zaretzki "a bribe at the public expense".

John Powell, chairman of the Brookhaven and Suffolk County Republican parties, was convicted of taking bribes at the town landfill and of dealing in stolen trucks.

Mr. Deri, a charismatic former interior minister of Moroccan descent who built Shas into a powerful legislative bloc, was convicted of taking bribes at the Interior Ministry.

None of this would have been possible without the help of the aforementioned judge, who had been contentedly accepting monthly cash bribes at the start of Mr. Grisham's story.

Actually, when Kerry sneered at "the coalition of the willing" as "a coalition of the coerced and the bribed," at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, no less, he was much more direct and intelligible.

A number of businessmen noted that bribes at the port really had stopped in recent months, mainly because people were scared of becoming the next victim of one of Saakashvili's public anti-corruption tirades.