Sentence examples for having bought off from inspiring English sources

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

In the early 1990's Saddam was still benefiting from years of having bought off Arab journalists, who sang his praises.

Having bought off the Welfs, reconciled other great families with yet more concessions, and lastly endowed his own cousin, Conrad III's son Frederick, with Hohenstaufen demesnes in Swabia, he had to try to mobilize their goodwill toward the empire while it lasted.

Not that he could have bought off Winfield.

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.

And many firms modify programs they have bought off the shelf, inadvertently introducing new bugs as they do so.

That has bought off the institutional shareholders, who hold three-quarters of the shares in the company.

Both big parties have been forced to sound more hawkish on immigration; David Cameron, the prime minister, has bought off eurosceptic rebels in his own party with the promise of an in-out referendum in 2017.

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.