Sentence examples for volume of bribes from inspiring English sources
Russia's defence minister was recently obliged to issue a special order designed to stop officers hiring troops out as day labourers, and using them to build dachas.Indem's most controversial finding was a surge in the volume of bribes paid by businesses, to a total amounting to more than double the federal budget.
It accused Ineos of "bribes and blackmail".
"It has decades-long traditions of bribes, bungs and corruption.
Suppose that, for each suspect, the amount of bribes accepted and the amount embezzled are not interchangeable.
They ran out of bribes. .
There were allegations of bribes and strong-arm political tactics.
Peter: Well, there are the takers and givers of bribes.
The hospital has a strict zero tolerance policy on the acceptance of bribes, favours and any other in-kind benefits.
The U.S. oil industry will not produce nearly the volume of oil it is promising unless it is bribed, "given a price signal" at well above current $110/barrel oil prices.
"Everybody does it," John Noonan, a federal judge in California, wrote in his eight-hundred-and-thirty-nine-page volume, "Bribes: The Intellectual History of a Moral Idea" (1984): "Romans and Visigoths, Englishmen and Africans, Catholics and Jews, pagans and Protestants, capitalists and Communists, imperialists and patriots".
