Sentence examples for interests bribe from inspiring English sources

Mr. Weinstock's argument boils down to this: Since our incumbent legislators retain their incumbency by accepting what amount to enormous bribes to act on behalf of their moneyed constituents, why not let those moneyed interests bribe the challengers as well?

Special interests bribe politicians to vote their way, all on short term measures that have no hope of actually fixing anything, or, God forbid, establishing policy.

Williams says "it looks like a special interest bribe...it looks tawdry".

"After the act of bribery is committed, the interests of the bribe giver and the bribe taker will be at divergence.

All of which does not rule out the possibility that someone else had a vested interest in bribing the electricians to set the blaze.

CLAIMS that Russian interests tried to bribe a Polish government minister in a failed bid to buy the Gdansk oil refinery, first made in Polish newspapers and now being pursued by a parliamentary commission in Warsaw, are rocking Poland's business and political worlds.

The controversy, therefore, between the liquidity preference theory which regards interest as a "bribe" to prevent people holding money rather than bonds and the time preference theory which regards interest as a bribe to persuade people to postpone enjoyments to the future can be resolved by placing the former in the short run and the latter in the long run.

In a country known for its corruption, Telpuk did not have an interest in a bribe although she felt Wilson may have expected her to be willing to take one.

It's no wonder some taxicab interests might seek to bribe elected officials to enact legislation that favors them.

And the London Company of Distillers boasted more than a few friends in the House of Commons ready to defend its interests in exchange for bribes.

"Zheng was supposed to use the power given to him by the state and the people seriously and honestly, but instead he has ignored their vital interests by taking the bribes," the Xinhua news agency quoted the court as saying.