Sentence examples for got bribes from inspiring English sources

Selling this 10% back to the developer became a main source of revenue for many ayuntamientos (sometimes councillors also got bribes to approve the new developments).

The judges got bribes of $2.6 million.

The Senate Banking Committee made public Morgan's "preferred list," which was the group of powerful and famous people who essentially got bribes from Morgan.

Even if it was my own brother who got bribed, I would kill him to stop the oil companies getting in here.' Many believe the concept of ecotourism is at best a complex solution in a consumers' world, at worst an oxymoron.

Try as he might, Stanley Kardell just couldn't lose 20 more pounds–until he got bribed for doing so.

Sadly, according to the investigation, George Weah a former World Player of the Year, the greatest African player ever, the original Arsene Wenger protégé, the man who once paid for all the kits and flights for his Liberian international teammates, the guy who most certainly didn't call Graham Souness and recommend signing Ali Dia was allegedly one of the dicks who got bribed.

Sadly, according to the investigation, George Weah – a former World Player of the Year, the greatest African footballer ever, the original Arsene Wenger protégé, the man who once paid for all the kits and flights for his Liberian international teammates, the guy who most certainly didn't call Graham Souness and recommend signing Ali Dia – was allegedly one the dicks who got bribed.

"If you can't get bribes for traffic officers under control, how can you get bribes by organized crime under control?" he said.

"Doctors are so used to getting bribes in Romania that you now have to pay more in order to even get their attention," she said.

"I wonder, why is it Mexico has to have such a hideous border, full of people trying to get bribes, full of environmental problems, full of poverty?

Sometimes it appears that secret policemen are looking for signs of political misbehaviour in order to get bribes for closing the case.