Sentence examples for covert bribery from inspiring English sources
But this feels worryingly like covert bribery.
Wherever officials are poorly paid, their careers fragile and the custom ingrained, overt or covert bribery may thrive.
I don't necessarily disagree – it's fair to say there are far better ways to market browsers than covert bribery and making the competition look like bad eggs – but it doesn't really surprise me and it won't work anyway.
Donovan could see no reason that policies considered suitable in wartime — covert military action, bribery, and disinformation — were not equally appropriate in the postwar world.
Specifically, the Bush administration should rely on bribery, covert action, dissemination of the American message by radio to Afghans and increased humanitarian aid, particularly to refugees, to break apart the Taliban and replace it with a regime that does not support Al Qaeda.
A decade on, AK, which means "white" or "pure" in Turkish, has proven not to be so exceptional after all and finds itself mired in one of the biggest graft scandals in recent history.On December 17th the police arrested around 50 people on suspicion of tender rigging, covert gold transfers to Iran and bribery.
But, he added, Russia could pursue cyber-attacks, bribery of officials, and other covert strategies.
In the years since, a faltering police investigation pointed to the Dowler case as only one of scores, possibly thousands, of cases in which ruthless newspapers, mainly The News of the World, have been accused of engaging in phone hacking in their relentless pursuit of scoops — as well as other covert newsroom tactics that may have included identity theft and bribery of police officers.
Stop your covert activities.
