Sentence examples for fails to bribe from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

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.

The U.K. Bribery Act makes it a crime for a company to fail to prevent bribes being paid on its behalf anywhere in the world.

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.

Despite volumes of research showing that pharmaceutical industry gifts distort decisions by doctors, the medical establishment has not mustered the will to bar such thinly disguised bribes, and the health care reform act fails to outlaw them.

Because corporations and individuals cannot bribe politicians or give money directly to them, the money spent sometimes fails to achieve the funders' goals.

But what he fails to consider is that if he sets his extortion rates too high, he'll also be taking away some of the environment official's business when he stops by later for his bribe.

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