Sentence examples for like a bribery from inspiring English sources

But Krane and some fellow rookie reps were already getting a clear message from Burlakoff, she said, that his idea of a speaker program was something else, and they were concerned: It sounded a lot like a bribery scheme.

The revelations could also jeopardize hard-fought convictions — including those last year of police officers involved in post-Katrina killings on the Danziger Bridge — as well as continuing inquiries like a bribery investigation that appears to be steadily encircling C. Ray Nagin, the former mayor.

The rest comes from spots like Azerbaijan, Angola, Algeria and Iran, where it weathered a bribery scandal in 2004 and is developing the giant South Pars gas field.

One resigned after a bribery scandal.

A bribery scandal has swirled around City Hall.

Another, Don Siegelman, is appealing a bribery conviction.

While some might argue that contributions like these look a lot like bribery, they turn out to be perfectly legal.

But on the merits of the case, the settlement, Mr. Coffee said, begins to look a lot like bribery — to some degree, on both sides.

Under Philippine law, public officials who "maliciously" fail to report a crime like bribery are subject to up to six years' imprisonment.

But also preachy and a bit like bribery.

The funding of the electoral campaigns of those representatives who support defence contractors in the US can seem like a system of legal bribery, while in Europe and the UK contributions to political parties by the sector have taken place for decades.