Sentence examples for system of bribery from inspiring English sources

Howard Berkes writes on NPR.org that Chicago would have flourished in the old Olympic system of bribery and corruption.

Few of the staff members were willing to cooperate with Ms. Ivkovic's efforts to stop a system of bribery for good grades.

In theory, a centralised system of bribery is better for both truckers and extortionists than a string of corrupt officials acting independently.

As Jimmy Williams, a former lobbyist, wrote: "Today, most lobbyists are engaged in a system of bribery, but it's the legal kind".

Instead, we must consider going down the very challenging, perhaps impossible, but seemingly only open route: to seek a constitutional amendment that treats our current campaign finance scheme as an illegal system of bribery.

Whether it is the laudanum of oil-wealth in Saudi Arabia, the parallel systems of bribery in Egypt which subsidise income, the alliances of patronage with powerful tribal leaders in Jordan which underwrite the monarchy's legitimacy, or the pact with the military in Algeria, there are several factors, underscored by support from the state's security forces, which douse the flame of rebellion.

Mr. Feingold called it "a system of legalized bribery and legalized extortion".

Their whole purpose is to circumvent the contribution limits — so we end up with a system of legalized bribery".

This is doubly hard given Congress' pay-to-play system of legal bribery, where dollars translate into votes.

"If you knock out aggregate contribution limits, you create a system of legalized bribery in this country".

"No career, including mine, is as important as breaking the hold of this system of legalized bribery," he told R.W. Apple of The Times.