Companies must be cajoled or bribed into building gas storage.
He has contrived to be bribed into changing his mind.
In many cases, young women are coerced or bribed into relationships with older men.
The new administrator had been bribed into selling off the villagers' communal land, without consulting the village council.
Soon the North hints it can be enticed or bribed into giving up a slice of its nuclear program.
Meanwhile, there is mounting evidence that key FIFA officials were bribed into awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
Experience in 1996 suggests that Saddam Hussein's regular army can be won over or bribed into changing sides.
Since 1994, U.S. policy toward Pyongyang has been based most of the time on the assumption that North Korea can be persuaded and bribed into surrendering its nuclear program.
He was responsible for securing vital uranium-enrichment technology, photographing centrifuge blueprints that a German executive had been bribed into temporarily "mislaying" in his kitchen.
Women's groups say that the calls suggest that many – not all – French men in positions of authority regard female employees as a resource to be bullied, or blackmailed, or bribed into sexual submission.
