Sentence examples similar to with a bribed from inspiring English sources

Sounds like the opposition captain pulled the wool over the eyes of both me and the ref with a bribe.

"And if students do get caught watching this kind of thing, they can normally get away with a bribe.

"Why can't the police do their job and stop the terrorists but let the smugglers go with a bribe?

But what seems spur-of-the-moment may have to do with something that happened years before, or with a bribe that was paid the previous day.

The government hopes to remove a blockage in the modification process with a bribe to holders of "second lien" mortgages, such as home-equity loans.

It seems easier to get something done with a bribe than to fill out myriad forms and wait in lines to confront evasive civil servants.

The rich resisted, won over Michele di Lando with a bribe, called out the guild militias, and drove the protesters from the scene.

A traffic policeman virtually pounced on the driver and then let him go with a bribe of 20 rupees, less than 50 cents.

As an example, he cited the a police station in the government-held enclave in Ramadi where "the police go on arresting Sunni, torturing them and refusing to release them unless their families come up with a bribe.

This is a parody of the mass protests of five years ago: the enthusiasm and spirit which drove the orange revolution is long gone and protesters on both sides can only be enticed with a bribe.

Abdi Aynte, executive director of the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies in Mogadishu, Somalia, said that with porous borders and corrupt police officers, it was relatively easy to cross into Kenya with a bribe at the border.