Sentence examples for gave bribes from inspiring English sources

At its most naked, this meant that big retailers gave bribes to powerful local shop-owners' associations.

Until fairly recently, French firms that gave bribes in order to secure business in foreign countries could declare them as deductible business expenses.

His prime minister, Nikolai I. Ryzhkov, was blunter about what Soviet society had become: "[We] stole from ourselves, took and gave bribes, lied in the reports, in newspapers, from high podiums, wallowed in our lies, hung medals on one another.

Two contractors, a father and son, admitted today in federal court that they gave bribes to close associates of Bridgeport's mayor, Joseph P. Ganim, to secure contracts that included work on a multimillion-dollar office park.

In the bribery scandal that has upended the city's property tax system, federal prosecutors have alleged that the beneficiaries included the city assessors who took bribes, the tax consultants who gave bribes and the landlords whose taxes were reduced.

In Indonesia, Monsanto gave bribes and questionable payments to at least 140 officials, attempting to get their genetically modified (GM) cotton accepted.

I don't give bribes or take bribes.

Most violations had to do with accepting or giving bribes.

"If they're stealing secrets normally, they'd be giving bribes.

Not one "mentioned having ordered or given bribes to government authorities," he wrote.

"But it was a pretty stupid thing he did, giving bribes to a dunce like Manes.