Sentence examples for one bribe from inspiring English sources

One bribe was $2,400, for example; others reportedly ranged from $200 to $10,000.

But Salman Rushdie's aphorism remains as true as ever: "Indian democracy: one man, one bribe".

The U.N. estimated that between 2008 and 2009, half of all Afghans paid at least one bribe to an official; the average amount was $160.

Prosecutors accused Mr. Hu of taking one bribe for $790,000 and one for about $147,000.

A survey by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Afghanistan's anticorruption unit found that 50 percent of the adult population had to pay at least one bribe to a public official in 2012, a 9 percent drop from 2009, based on interviews last year with 6,700 Afghan adults.

Indian democracy: one man, one bribe.

"I imagined myself as ruthless and powerful," he crows on one bribe-collecting mission to a school.

"Mamata Banerjee's biggest calling card to industry is that there is now no one to bribe," Mr. Mitra said.

Two officials familiar with his statements said Mr. Torres had asserted that he had arranged the protection of cocaine shipments with Raul Salinas and paid him one large bribe himself after a drug seizure in Mexico in 1993.

Alternatively when two other countries are at peace with one another, bribe or coerce one to help you conquer the other.

But, there wasn't just one racial bribe, given the proliferation of races.