Sentence examples for buys him off from inspiring English sources

Once-idealistic rock stars buy country piles and whinge about paying tax, the likes of Perez start taking the freebies and decline to call Paris Hilton out for homophobic remarks because she buys him off with access.

As well as best picture, McQueen's two-and-a-half-hour tearjerker, based on the memoir of Solomon Northup - a free man kidnapped then sold into slavery in Louisiana in 1841 - looks likely to generate awards buzz for Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays Northup, as well as for Michael Fassbender as the sadistic planation owner who buys him off the more compassionate Benedict Cumberbatch.

The dictatorship had tried to buy him off; it had tried to scare him.

The government tried to buy him off with a fat salary.

Nicky then bought him off me for £20,000 at the Doncaster sales".

An eminent journalist hints at why, describing how a Congress figure once tried to buy him off with a thick bundle of rupees placed in his car.

The book also claimed that arrangements were made by mobsters associated with Lieutenant Becker not to kill Mr. Rosenthal but to silence him by buying him off and spiriting him out of town.

Some big clubs will be interested in him because he is such a top player and that is something we have to accept," he told ITV. "We can't complain about that, we bought him off Ajax.

Jack's attempt to buy him off with one barrel clearly hasn't worked ("They murdered Hank, they stole my life's work") – but could he also be planning to use the ricin on the Schwartzes?

Some countermeasures against propaganda include simply suppressing it by eliminating or jailing the propagandist, burning down his premises, intimidating his employees, buying him off, depriving him of his use of the media or the money that he needs for the media or for necessary research, and applying countless other coercive or economic pressures.

Imagine if he could have bought him off with a peerage a few years ago: suppose Ukip had been led by Tim Congdon, the economist Farage beat to return to the leadership after a one-year gap in 2010, or by Paul Nuttall, currently Farage's deputy.