Sentence examples for bribing it from inspiring English sources

Skeptics have long dismissed Dr. Pepperberg's successes with Alex as a subtle form of conditioning — no deeper philosophically than teaching a pigeon to peck at a moving spot by bribing it with grain.

Criticizing the PRI by name, he commented, "I don't believe that there has been in Latin America any case of a system of dictatorship which has so efficiently recruited the intellectual milieu, bribing it with great subtlety".

Bribing, it turns out, doesn't always speed things up: in a vast study of twenty-four hundred companins in fifty-eight countries, Daniel Kaufmann, of the World Bank, and Shang-Jin Wei, of the I.M.F., found that the more a company had to bribe, the more time it spent tied up in negotiations with bureaucrats.

The judge said that he was offered bribes to reject the cases, while the plaintiffs contended that if anyone was doing any bribing, it was the defense.

The policy of trying to bribe it into turning its nuclear-weapons programme into a civilian-energy one has bought five or six years without a conflict.

If your guinea pig runs into its hidey-hole, try to bribe it out with some lettuce or its favorite vegetable!

And where it could not bribe it bullied, using soldiers paid for by Indian taxes to duff up recalcitrant rulers.

To bribe it — er, persuade it — to stay put, the State Legislature passed a law exempting it from city property taxes.

"A short comment on this is long overdue, and now that Ben's been named as one who was bribed it's irresponsible of me NOT to call for him to step down".

"It's not just that officials had to be bribed; it's that the World Cup was a chance for us to be a special nation again".

Pick a special, smelly treat to bribe it with.