Sentence examples for overt bribery from inspiring English sources

But it's not just overt bribery that undermines the taxi market.

The authors' argument, first laid out in the Atlantic a year ago, is that America's big banks act as an oligarchy, a group that has gained political power because of its economic power and then uses that political power for its own benefit.Unlike oligarchs in emerging economies, Wall Street's financiers do not use overt bribery or blackmail.

Wherever officials are poorly paid, their careers fragile and the custom ingrained, overt or covert bribery may thrive.

Herman, a stout, excitable man who runs for Parliament on a more or less overt platform of bribery and extortion, likes to wear dresses that evoke Mae West by way of Divine.

While the American system of government may be less subject to bribery and overt nepotism than China's, in many ways our capitalist economy and democratic politics are dominated by "too big to fail" corporations and public-sector bureaucracies — institutions far less monolithic than the Chinese Communist Party, but similarly influential and unaccountable.

Nothing overt.

Overt hostility?

Overt racism?

See also bribery.

Bribery declined.

Lesser charges include bribery and bribery conspiracy.