Sentence examples for the issue of bribery from inspiring English sources

Whenever the sheikh raised the issue of bribery or illegality, Williams steered the conversation to legal ground.

In 2006 Control Risks surveyed industry on the issue of bribery and found "a quarter of UK based international companies said they had lost business to corrupt competitors in the last five years".

Marilena Tiron, 26, a recent graduate of a medical school in Bucharest, said the issue of bribery did not come up in her optional medical ethics class at the University of Bucharest's Medical School "since the teachers were taking bribes themselves".

On Tuesday, Mr. Singh also raised the issue of allegations of bribery in India's purchase of helicopters from AgustaWestland, the Finmeccanica subsidiary that is based in Britain.

Three major cases against GE -- the accounting fraud case, the issue of Jack Welch's compensation, and the Iraqi bribery case -- all occurred during the tenure of its current CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, who assumed that role in 2001.

Ikea has had a series of problems in Russia, most recently dismissing two senior executives over issues of bribery.

Over the past two years, the I.O.C. has absorbed a battering from Congress, the White House, corporate sponsors and the news media on the issues of corruption in the Salt Lake City bribery scandal and of its suspect resolve on doping.

This week Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, an eccentric Russian provincial governor, was re-elected as president of the international chess federation (Fide) after a bitter contest with the former world champion Anatoly Karpov that descended into allegations of bribery, corruption and the issuing of law suits.

The authority that regulates telecoms is beset by accusations of bribery and nepotism in the issuing of a third mobile-phone licence.

As in most developed countries, the issue is not bribery, but a lessening of political transparency (for instance in campaign finance) and regulatory oversight.Correction: An early version of this map wrongly put France in the same dark orange category as Italy.

Hou Weidong marvels at the scale of bribery but quickly masters the etiquette of the payoff.