Sentence examples for giving bribes from inspiring English sources

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

Most violations had to do with accepting or giving bribes.

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

"It is not just petty corruption of people giving bribes," she said.

Zivko Budimir, a president of the Bosnian-Croat Federation, was among those suspected of "abuse of office, illegal intermediation, receiving and giving bribes, organized crime and drug trafficking," the spokesman said.

Legal experts say it would be possible to prosecute one man for giving bribes, without prosecuting the target of the bribe, if he was believed to be unaware of the intent.

I don't give bribes or take bribes.

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

Palestinian builders complain that ministries pay them only when they give bribes.

If American companies refused to give bribes, he said, "you'll do business nowhere".

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