Sentence examples for feed bribes from inspiring English sources

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Bribes feed bribes: if an Afghan aspires to be a district police officer, he must often pay a significant amount, around fifty thousand dollars, to his boss, who is usually the provincial police chief.

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No longer, says Ricardo Pascoe, head of one of the capital's 16 administrative districts, but he sees vestiges of the system at lower levels, fed by bribes extorted from the citizenry.

Shortly before that, protesters outside the luxury hotel he used as his home in Rome had humiliatingly pelted him with coins.As leader of Italy's Socialists from 1976 to 1993, Craxi was among the orchestrators of a system in which the main parties, and their officials, fed off bribes extorted from companies bidding for public contracts.

The surplus is then fed into a network of bribes.

Clerks and police officers earning $50 a month, the reasoning goes, have no choice but to take bribes in order to feed their families.

In season one, Don was bribing a psychiatrist to feed back Betty's therapy sessions, now she's signing up for a Masters in psychology at Fairfield University.

Horses are easily bribed by using a feed temptation.

"When Lukashenko can no longer feed all his officials, who live on bribes and kickbacks, he will end up like Ceausescu".

He went on to question the sexual orientation of high-profile entertainment industry Scientologists and — talk about biting the hand that feeds — suggested that the HFPA had accepted bribes (as a recent lawsuit has alleged).

Apparently, he was fed up paying "bakseesh" (bribe) to the cops.

Make sure you feed your dog and care for it just for extra bribing.

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