Sentence examples for hidden payments from inspiring English sources

Without some hidden payments to officials, business will be lost, they add.

Ley said the government was looking at greater transparency, targeting so-called "junk" policies, confusing terminology and hidden payments.

The 63-page complaint asserts that Chiquita provided "numerous and substantial hidden payments" to the rebels in addition to weapons and supplies.

But he said he had lost business to some brokers and consultants who, as a result of hidden payments from insurers, were willing to charge clients less for their services.

A decade ago, a series of scandals relating to hidden payments by drug companies to prominent physicians prompted medical journals and professional societies to beef up their reporting requirements.

Opening the books on $95 million of previously hidden payments, what did we find?

Now, we know the full extent of hidden payment spending and it's quite "imprest-ive". Since 2009, $95.123 million was paid through "imprest" accounting at COD whereby the college administrators knew the payment details, but the board of trustees did not.

Estimates prepared for Guardian Money suggest that consumers could save as much as £200m a year currently paid out in commissions to advisers – and stop wasting money on hidden "trail" payments that eat into returns.

• To the Editor: The public deserves to have access to information about relationships between medicine and the pharmaceutical industry ("Hidden Drug Payments at Harvard," editorial, June 10), just as the public should be aware of relationships between legislators and lobbyists.

• To the Editor: Re "Hidden Drug Payments at Harvard" (editorial, June 10): While it is good news that there is a bill introduced in the Senate that would require "drug and device makers" to disclose payments to doctors that exceed $500 annually, such disclosure should also be easily accessible to parents and other consumers.

Melvyn I. Weiss on Thursday became the latest prominent — to some, notorious — trial lawyer to agree to plead guilty to federal criminal charges, acknowledging his role in a scheme to make hidden side payments to plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits filed by his firm, Milberg Weiss.