Sentence examples for petty bribery from inspiring English sources
She considers it an innocuous form of petty bribery, she said, adding, "It's in the course of business".
Mr. Saakashvili won wide acclaim early in his presidency for anticorruption reforms that included disbanding the traffic police and virtually stamping out petty bribery.
Such petty bribery acts as a hidden regressive tax, according to research financed by the World Bank Institute, the bank's educational and research arm.
"I do think there's something specifically British in the hooliganism of News of the World and the other tabs there, including eavesdropping and petty bribery," he wrote in an e-mail.
Arguably, the type of corruption that most damages economic growth is not petty bribery but rather the massive theft of state funds by venal politicians and their senior henchmen.
Their success has been breathtaking in some areas; in Georgia, once considered among the most corrupt regions of the Soviet Union, petty bribery has been banned so effectively that some workers refuse the boxes of chocolate traditionally exchanged at New Year's.
"The question is, who would be ready to invest such resources for the sake of going after the person reporting the petty act of bribery?" he said.
Focus on petty or administrative bribery has been misplaced at the expense of high-level political corruption.
Burbank residents, despite my petty attempt at bribery with the Canyon Grille's excellent food, were a bit more critical in their views.
In their testimony, and in hundreds of pages of court papers, the two men are exposing the secrets of that time — the sub rosa meetings, the millions of dollars thrown around like petty change, the extortion, the bribery, the sweetheart deals with corrupt governments.
