Sentence examples for bribe states from inspiring English sources

This whole charade is a veiled attempt to bribe states that aid in dismantling teacher jobs and unions.

To bribe states into accepting caps on federal contributions to Medicaid, the health-care system of the poor, he is offering larger up-front initial payments.

They have tried to bribe states by promising them more delegates (and thus a bigger say in the nomination process) if they hold their elections later, and have threatened to deprive them of delegates if they insist on moving.

Netanyahu has denied that any of the gifts amount to a bribe, stating that they were merely tokens of friendship.

Mr. Allen agreed to do so on the day in August 2006 that the Federal Bureau of Investigation confronted him with overwhelming evidence including videotapes that he was at the heart of a scheme to bribe state lawmakers.

He needed the government's agreement to sell his company for some $380 million and is also facing sentencing for his conviction in Alaska for a scheme to bribe state lawmakers.

WASHINGTON — The day after the F.B.I. confronted Bill Allen, an Alaska oil services millionaire, with evidence that he had tried to bribe state lawmakers, he reached out to Senator Ted Stevens by telephone to discuss how their relationship might also be the subject of a corruption investigation.

"[That really gives] that enthusiasm and that kind of confidence to carry this whole thing forward, so that gives the mindset to not give a bribe," stated Vig.

Obama's Race to the Top initiative bribed states to devise their own school reforms, a cost-effective way to achieve nationwide change.

Newt's so-called "plan" was merely a re-tread of these failed, dirty, and dangerous energy ideas: offshore drilling, oil shale, Arctic drilling, tax breaks for Big Oil, bribing states to allow more drilling, eviscerating environmental regulations, "green" coal (yes, he really calls it that!), nukes, and other such nonsense.

Today, a Beijing court declared Mr. Fong guilty of "illegally obtaining state secrets and bribing state workers," the New China News Agency reported.