Sentence examples for taking bribery from inspiring English sources

One day it might be match-fixing, the next another form of skulduggery or drug taking, bribery or illegal payments.

"Only in New Jersey do we take bribery and call it something else, pay to play, and then say we have to ban it," said Assemblyman Bill Baroni, a Republican who is an election lawyer.

When Whitehall's export credits guarantee department signed off the latest Mabey loan, an official note to the trade minister Ian Pearson warned on September 8 that anti-corruption groups "will seek to argue that ECGD is acting irresponsibly... and claim this demonstrates ECGD does not take bribery and corruption seriously".

The chairman, S. Robson Walton, known as Rob, said Wal-Mart was taking the bribery allegations "very seriously".

Aggrieved foreign investors have filed lawsuits against Petrobras in New York, where some of its shares are traded.Petrobras was expected to take a bribery-related write-down on its third-quarter earnings.

It was expected to take a bribery-related write-down in its third-quarter earnings—originally due in November but postponed twice to give it time to come up with a figure.

The Chamber is not overtly taking a pro-bribery position.

In some towns the bribery takes place openly; is not called bribery, nor considered a serious matter".

8. Consider bribery.

Thus an important principle is that a foreign company which carries on any part of its business in the UK can be prosecuted for failure to prevent bribery even where the bribery takes place wholly outside the UK and the benefit or advantage to the company is intended to accrue outside the UK, and regardless of whether carried out by UK nationals, or by UK-registered companies.

The Obama administration has placed a renewed focus on corporate bribery overseas, taking an increasingly aggressive approach as problems mounted.