Sentence examples for governmental bribe from inspiring English sources
Whereas in earlier days governmental bribe takers used to charge for a signature, they have now learned to base their rates on the particular documents they are signing.
To maintain a business, you had to keep bribing governmental staff, even if you were working in accordance with the law.
This anti-corruption provision is designed to prevent governments and governmental bodies from bribing federal officials.
Yes, why not just bribe a communist governmental leader who hates America and has ties to Iran, if it gets you a "high level of support" from a man like Daniel Ortega?
An amendment to the FCPA specifically exempts "facilitating payments for routine governmental action" from the American definition of a bribe.
Here's my take on it.Most of the world's autocrats stay in power by implicitly or explicitly bribing a wide circle of social, economic, governmental, and military elite.
A U.S. appeals court upheld the convictions and said the governor had taken bribes in exchange for "using the power of his office to influence governmental decisions".
As the Court said in Buckley, "the giving and taking of bribes deal with only the most blatant and specific attempts of those with money to influence governmental action". Any regulation must instead target what we have called "quid pro quo" corruption or its appearance.
The Court stated that "making criminal the giving and taking of bribes deals with only the most blatant and specific attempts of those with money to influence governmental action". In other words, the Court said that its view of corruption in the context of campaign finance laws went well beyond quid pro quo transactions.
That is, until the director of the governmental Financial Supervisory Service turned up dead, apparently by suicide, in a hotel room recently -- after the Internet entrepreneur Chung Hyun Joon told investigators he had paid huge bribes to the regulatory agency.
