Sentence examples for financial bribe from inspiring English sources

Williams, now a lecturer in journalism at the University of Central Lancashire, writes: "I summarily dismissed a reporter who was caught trying to cover his mistakes by offering a financial bribe to the staff in the newspaper computer room to falsify his copy... Shortly afterwards he went seamlessly on to a senior job at our sister paper, the News of the World, where his 'scoops' were celebrated.

The final report concluded that these organizations, through financial support, bribes, boycotts, and coercion, sought to control the press, elections, and public opinion.

It addresses the world of crime and illicit financial flows, bribes, nepotism and the like, because they endanger justice and progress everywhere.

ASHAs alleged that ANMs were forging financial bills, bribed eligible couples for sterilisation, sought money for free government services from pregnant women and forced ASHAs to share their financial incentives with them.

In Third World America: How Our Politicians are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream, Arianna Huffington describes how Wall Street insiders used the financial crisis to bribe, coerce, and manipulate Washington into bailing them out and handing them unprecedented, unconditional windfalls.

But this went beyond financial embezzlement and bribes and directly on to the field of play.

Speculators operated more than a hundred "pools" that openly manipulated individual stocks and sometimes bribed financial journalists.

A5 South African Fires His No. 2 President Thabo Mbeki fired his deputy president, Jacob Zuma, after a Durban court convicted Mr. Zuma's financial adviser of bribing him in exchange for political influence on government contracts.

The only segment not adapted from the source material is about whether financial rewards (read: bribes) can improve the academic performance of high schoolers.

The reason Wall Street was able to game the system the way it did -- knowing that they would become rich at the expense of the American people (oh, yes, they most certainly knew that) -- was because the financial elite had bribed our legislators to roll back the protections enacted after the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

The S.E.C. accord, signed in September, was the result of claims that the company's former controller and chief financial officer approved a bribe to an Indonesian government official in 1999.