Sentence examples for kickback in the from inspiring English sources

"Amgen was offering a kickback in the form of extra product subsidized by the taxpayers," said Robert M. Thomas Jr., one of Ms. Westmoreland's lawyers.

He allegedly received a US$5m kickback in the graft scheme uncovered at Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as Petrobras is formally known.

"He has a very unorthodox was of racing so I took him out of the kickback in the back [stretch] and when I got onto California Chrome's tail, he picked up the bridle and ran on well in the end.

But when Firing Line wasn't the least bit interested in firing in the Preakness — "He wanted no part of all the kickback in the mud," Stevens said — the 52-year-old savvy rider happily jumped on Tale of Verve.

Should the Alaska Purchase indeed "purchase" Senator Murkowski's vote, there would probably be an equivalent hue and cry of shame that doomed the Cornhusker Kickback, in this case with shoe on the other foot for both Democrats and Republicans.

IT STARTED as a familiar tale of kickbacks in the murky world of international arms trading.

Kickbacks in the form of free work in developers' private homes were demanded.

Two of his sons, Ibrahim and Mohammed, began amassing millions through government contracts and kickbacks in the 1980s.

A sweeping United Nations investigative report in 2005 alleged many kickbacks in the lucrative contracts linked to the program.

Contracts for big building projects in Brazil have been an invitation to collect kickbacks in the past.

The current government is stuck in a scandal about reported kickbacks in the leasing of a 767 Boeing jet.