The most important offence for our purposes is that contained in section 7 of the Act – an offence of failure by a commercial organisation to prevent a bribe being paid to obtain or retain business or a business advantage.
Warelwast was the king's envoy at Rome when during his exile Anselm petitioned to have the king excommunicated, which according to Eadmer, who was also present, Warelwast succeeded in preventing by bribing the pope and papal officials.
That's intended to prevent CEOs from bribing union leaders with stuff like cash and Cadillacs to accept crappy contracts.
She had two conditions: Wang would never interfere in her newsroom, and he would give her a budget of two million yuan — about a quarter of a million dollars — to pay for serious reporting trips and salaries that were high enough to prevent reporters from taking bribes.
The bottom line is GM/Opel wants German state bribes to "prevent" it from cutting even more German jobs, in return for which it will launch itself on the hypothetical path-to-profits by reducing capacity and losing market share.
The controversy, therefore, between the liquidity preference theory which regards interest as a "bribe" to prevent people holding money rather than bonds and the time preference theory which regards interest as a bribe to persuade people to postpone enjoyments to the future can be resolved by placing the former in the short run and the latter in the long run.
But $12.2 million was cash — money clearly meant as a kind of genteel, legal bribe to prevent Mr. Hurd from joining a direct competitor.
Limits on spending used to prevent donations from becoming outright bribes, but now the limits are gone, and the path to corruption is clear.
Mr. Assad said they would offer incentive pay to prevent the inspectors from taking bribes to look the other way, a problem that plagues enforcement across the bureaucracy.
Although some American companies once actively lobbied to water down the F.C.P.A., arguing that it made it hard to compete overseas, many corporations here have now thrown their weight behind it in the belief that it can be used to prevent competitors from indulging in bribes.
