Sentence examples for failed to bribe from inspiring English sources

On three occasions, Chen's snakeheads failed to bribe local Thai officials, and the house was raided.

So through the summer of 1968 there was manoeuvring, anguished meetings, furtive discussions, crackpot ideas: "Basil, couldn't you play for South Africa instead?" A mysterious businessman tried and failed to bribe Dolly to rule himself out.

Having failed to bribe locals into fulfilling his dogmatic fantasy, he announced in June that he wants to make it illegal to disagree with him, by requiring councils to meet a 'minimum service standard' of waste collection.

Why was it that although he was carrying "sackfuls" of dollars and other foreign exchange, he failed to bribe his way out of Nigeria, a country whose customs and immigration posts are known to be rather "permeable", to say the least?

Cooder asks Homer to run his fixed game, but Homer fails to bribe Chief Wiggum (mainly because he was not deciphering Chief Wiggum's obvious hints at wanting a bribe), and Cooder's game is shut down.

When stickers failed to motivate, bribes of cookies didn't work, promises of the latest Melissa and Doug tow-truck made him yawn, and even Cranky the motherf*cking Crane Hook failed to make my son blink an eye, I started to wonder just how much longer I could remain oh-so-very-chill.

The yuanshi system has come under mounting criticism, especially after a researcher was elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) for his contributions to making cigarettes less harmful and after revelations of a corrupt railway official's failed attempts to bribe his way into CAS.

After a failed attempt to bribe his way free of his guards, Rupert was imprisoned in Linz.

And there were rumors "that Comstock had arrested Madam Restell only after he failed to get a bribe from her".

But in 1998 he pled guilty to a felony, admitting he failed to report a bribe request from then-Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards that came when DeBartolo was trying to get a riverboat casino license.

Boyd was rocked, however, when the FBI discovered three of his players had failed to report a bribe attempt to fix games.