Entrapment, in law, instigation or inducement of a person into the commission of a crime by an officer of the law.
With the inducement of a gratuity, the workers even agreed to assemble the dark Leksvik drop-leaf dining table, as well as the confoundedly difficult white bead-board Hemnes daybed.
One of these men, Hajji Zaman, who fled Afghanistan for sanctuary in France last spring, was accused by rival Afghan commanders of organizing a brief American bombing halt a few days into the attack to allow him to negotiate Qaeda leaders' surrender, only to use the standstill -- with the inducement of a hefty Qaeda bribe -- to help the fugitives escape.
Morgan Stanley received the inducement of a monthly lease at about 30 Hong Kong dollars ($3.85) per square foot as the first tenant of a skyscraper on out-of-the-way reclaimed land in West Kowloon, across the harbor from Hong Kong Island.
The inducement of a family fortune helped to influence many white gays like Carl Van Vechten, Harold Vanderbilt, and Cole Porter to 'settle down'.
With the added inducement of a bottle of sherry, Kilbride readily agreed to get into the Ford Anglia car that Hindley had hired.
At the beginning of February, super-rich state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, who devised the GPS technology in your mobile phone, charged that Whitman's chief strategist Mike Murphy broke the law by threatening him with personal destruction if he filed for governor and offered him the inducement of a U.S. Senate nomination if he dropped out of the race.
Yesterday, Poizner, who devised mobile phone tracking technology, charged that Whitman's consultant Mike Murphy broke the law by threatening him with personal destruction if he files for governor and offering him the inducement of a U.S. Senate nomination if he drops out of the race.
For the same reason, monetary inducements (and probably inducements of any sort) are likely to increase participation bias (see page 9).
Inspectors at manufacturing sites are often presented with gifts from companies and there is an ill-defined demarcation between a "benign" offer of material goods and an attempt at inducement of an inspector by a company.
