Sentence examples for making a ticket from inspiring English sources

Passengers can touch in with their cards in the same way as using an Oyster, but without making a ticket purchase or top up credit beforehand.

In the annals of small-bore corruption, there are few things more commonplace than a police officer's making a ticket disappear for a friend or relative.

There are fewer galas this year, making a ticket to dress up even more coveted.

It is a crime to make a ticket summons disappear for friends, relatives and people with connections to other officers.

Officers wanting to make a ticket disappear — or following orders to do so — would seek out union officials who seemed plugged into a network for doing it safely.

He was still Jordan, No. 23, who led Chicago again and again to the N.B.A. title, who made a ticket to a Bulls game the hottest in town.

Police union officials, like Officer McGee, have been ensnared by the dozens, because other police officers sought them out for help when they were trying to make a ticket for a friend or relative vanish.

But it could also serve to embarrass or even implicate public officials or others who have asked police officers to do them a little favor and make a ticket go away.

Police officers can also make a ticket disappear by encouraging the officer who wrote it to throw the case once it goes to court, according to interviews with people following the Bronx grand jury investigation.

Officers wanting to make a ticket disappear often sought out a union delegate, who, in turn, would contact a union official elsewhere to have a ticket pulled from a summons box or to have an officer persuaded not to testify in traffic court.

The investigation focuses chiefly on past years when simply disposing of one of the carbon copies of each summons was often enough to make a ticket go away, even if it did leave a somewhat suspicious gap in the consecutively numbered tickets issued by the officer.