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Mannion said that some cynical observers might even suggest that the BBC had "bought off" the newspaper groups as they had been highly critical of the corporation's activities damaging the commercial market.

On the same day, Mr Hartz and VW's works council denied newspaper reports that VW managers had bought off senior union leaders, for instance with trips to Brazil.Under German law, workers can form a works council that has a role in management decision-making.

"If I can't document it, I don't say it," Mr. Newman of Operation Rescue said, moments before suggesting without any proof that Dr. Tiller had bought off the local district attorney, Nola T. Foulston, by giving her a baby for adoption.

His new novel Beatlebone, published this month and already shortlisted for the Goldsmiths prize, is a gloriously freewheeling tale imagining an attempt by John Lennon to visit the island he had bought off the coast of Mayo in 1967 (and which came back on the market in the wake of the recession).

By John Cassidy June 4, 2013 A couple of months ago, I asked if Steve Cohen, the billionaire hedge-fund manager, had bought off the U.S. government by agreeing to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission more than six hundred million dollars to settle an insider-trading case.

He described the gun as a revolver he had bought off the street a month prior to the killing.

Not that he could have bought off Winfield.

His critics accuse Mr Álvarez, who denies all wrongdoing, of having bought off prosecutors.

He has bought off social discontent in Hungary with department stores full of clothes and gadgets.

He could perhaps have bought off the angry populace with oil money had the state machine been more able.

Despite all the rhetoric about academic freedom, BAT has bought off a potential critic.