Sentence examples for bribed from inspiring English sources

South Africa denied on Wednesday it bribed Fifa officials with $10m to secure votes for its successful bid to host the 2010 World Cup, insisting the payment was "above board".

"We categorically deny our country and government bribed anyone to receive the right to host the 2010 World Cup," he said.

The Orbán government, prone to fanning paranoia and regularly conjuring conspiracy theories about foreign plots to undermine Hungary, insinuated the White House had been bribed.

He claimed in his testimony to a US judge, made public last week, that he was bribed in return for his vote on the 2010 World Cup.

An American former Fifa executive cooperating with the FBI on a major corruption inquiry has admitted that he and other members of the all-powerful executive committee were bribed in return for voting for South Africa's bid for the 2010 World Cup.

The Italian premier has been involved in a slew of legal investigations, including accusations he bribed a judge in the 1980s to sway a business deal in his favour.

The authors of the page – Charlotte Gerada, Gary Reddin, Jusna Begum and Sean Rillo Raczka – state: "This isn't justice, it's a stitch-up fuelled by prejudice … We didn't have our ballots stolen and we weren't bribed or bullied".

Those who were demonstrating were bribed; people were paid to buy weapons and kill their brothers.

It was the same in the last game: women were there to nag you, or be bribed – whether with fancy dinners or cold, hard cash – into having sex with you.

A shoemaker threatening to leave was bribed with $12,000 for a new plant, from workers who docked themselves two hours' pay a week.

Yet bribed firms could and did fail, or leave.