Sentence examples for bribes at the from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

But the complications that clients like Mr. Zaland might present for a high-profile American firm illustrate the peculiar risks posed by taking work in Afghanistan, where loyalties can be hard to track and it is nearly impossible to run a business without paying bribes, at the very least.

"They pay bribes at the border and come by foot.

Priests are not sanctimonious guardians of tradition but mercenaries who extort bribes at funerals; the funerals themselves are perfunctory, possessing none of the habitual ceremony and maudlin ritual so common in literature about India.

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.