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He also had the audacity to suggest that legislators were bought off by the industry, notably ComEd and Ameren.

Nearly all of us were bought off by the glamour of material culture in one way or another.

Outside the radical left, most Japanese were bought off by a social contract in which politicians, bureaucrats and big business arranged the country's economic affairs.

Mr. Pruett said his lawyers could not adequately investigate the theory that inmates were bought off by prison officials to testify against him.

Invasions instigated by dissident West Frankish nobles and by Louis the Younger, one of the East Frankish kings, were bought off by the cession of western Lotharingia (Treaties of Verdun, 879, and of Ribémont, 880).

echoes the tactic that quelled the long-running insurgency in southern Nigeria, where rebels preyed on oil installations for years, shaking the Nigerian government, before they were bought off by the federal authorities in 2010.

Hillary's been bought off by them.

"These politicians are bought off by big-money interests.

He said at the time that the executives had been "bought off" by the bank.

Mr Mubarak has endorsed this stance, and is urging the US not to be bought off by Israeli half-measures.

Some of the clergy's top leaders on the State Sangha Council have been bought off by the regime.