Word Finder - bribery

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The making of illegal payment, or bribes, to persons in official positions as a means of influencing their decisions

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The activity of giving, offering or accepting bribes

Bribery may be punished by fine, imprisonment and disfranchisement for ten years.

He was accused of bribery during his candidature, and, in spite of Cicero's defence, was condemned.

He was acquitted, and a charge of bribery against him also proved unsuccessful.

But Charles preferred negotiation and bribery to fighting.

Don't kill the torturer - try bribery instead.

A certain amount of coercion or healthy bribery may be needed to practice!

Bribery of the English ministers was not spared, and in September the invaders recrossed to England.

Man seeks to influence his fellow men in various ways, by intimidation, by deceit, by bribery; and it is quite natural to find the same ideas in the sphere of religion.

The priests became political leaders rather than spiritual guides, and sought promotion by bribery and intrigue.

The state almost entirely supports the Connecticut school for imbeciles, at Lakeville; the American school for the deaf, in Hartford; the oral school for the deaf, 1 The constitution prescribes that " the privileges of an elector shall be forfeited by a conviction of bribery, forgery, perjury, duelling, fraudulent bankruptcy, theft or other offense for which an infamous punishment is inflicted," but this disability may in any case be removed by a two-thirds vote of each house of the general assembly.

The right of suffrage is given to every male citizen of the United States who has attained the age of twenty-one years and has been a resident of the state for one year, provided he has paid his poll tax and has not been convicted of bribery, larceny or other infamous crime.

It is also directly at odds with international best practice on combating bribery.

Within the UK, there are several ways in which the Inland Revenue's role in detecting bribery could be enhanced.

There are at least two essential reasons why laws preventing the bribery of foreign officials are desirable.

Any such bribery must be applied across the board.

Flashing cash may seem like bribery, and no woman wants to feel as if she is being bought.

These have led to the secrecy of the ballot, and hence to a greater or less extent have prevented intimidation and bribery.

In 1857 he was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, despite a Democratic majority in the state legislature, a fact that gave rise to charges of bribery.

If the parties to the suit are dissatisfied with the judgment, they may appeal to a priest who stands higher in public estimation, or one of the parties may induce a higher authority by bribery to quash the judgment of the first.

To Fenelon such employment was clearly uncongenial; and if he was rather too ready to employ unsavoury methods - such as bribery and espionage - among his proselytes, his general conduct was kindly and statesmanlike in no slight degree.

The agents of the " New Christians " in Rome long contrived, by lavish bribery and with the support of many enlightened Portuguese, to delay the preliminary negotiations; but in 1536 the Holy Office was established in Lisbon, where the first auto-da fe was held in 1540, and in 1560 its operations were extended to India.

Suffrage requirements are citizenship in the United States, registration and residence in the state for six months and in the county for thirty days immediately before election, but mental deficiency, conviction of infamous crimes (without restoration to rights of citizenship), bribery or attempt at bribery, bigamy, living in " what is known as patriarchal, plural or celestial marriage," or teaching its validity or belonging to any organization which teaches polygamy,' are disqualifications.

It was awarded to Mithradates, but the senate refused to ratify the bargain on the ground of bribery.

His father, of the same name, had held an important military command in Sicily, but on his return to Rome he was prosecuted on a charge of bribery and condemned to exile.

These offences include not only treating, undue influence, bribery and personation, but certain others, of which the following are the chief.

After securing, the election of her husband to the throne by wholesale bribery she virtually took the government into her hands and restored the waning influence of the monarchy over the nobles.

Some writers have maintained that this sudden elevation of the most recent member of the Sacred College was due to bribery in the conclave, whilst the apologists of Sixtus affirm it was due to the friendship of the powerful and upright Cardinal Bessarion, and explain that the pope, having been brought up in a mendicant order, was inexperienced and did not appreciate the liberality of his donations after his election.

Play involves bribery, shiftiness, blackmail, bluffing and double-crossing and it's all very exciting.

To secure for itself all those lands it used every imaginable and unimaginable method, including bribery, fraud and coercion.

You try to pay a traffic fine on the spot and get arrested for attempted bribery.

The effectiveness of SACE ' s code of ethics in preventing foreign bribery should be further monitored " .

The Government is committed to working proactively to detect international bribery, open investigations and cooperate with mutual legal assistance requests.

Paupers, insane, and those convicted of treason, felony or bribery in an election are barred, " while the disability continues," and no person in the military, naval or marine service of the United States is deemed.

On his arrival in Syria, Pompey reversed the decision, but, ignoring the charge of bribery brought against Scaurus, left him in command of the district.

In 61 Gabinius, then praetor, endeavoured to win the public favour by providing games on a scale of unusual splendour, and in 58 managed to secure the consulship, not without suspicion of bribery.

They were therefore naturally open to bribery and corruption, with the result that, while the rich often got off almost scot free, the poor were unduly taxed, and often cruelly oppressed by the tax collectors and farmers of revenue.

Bribery has decreased in such states since the change of election day to that of the rest of the country.

In 1880 it was disfranchised for bribery, and in 1885 the borough was merged in the county division of Macclesfield.

An attempt to quicken this process by bribery provoked, however, an outburst of feeling against Khuen-Hedervary who, though personally innocent, found his position shaken.

The recruiting superintending committee, travelling through districts, supervise every ballot, and work under stringent rules which render systematic bribery difficult.

On the death of Ahmads father-in-law in the same year, when Egypt was given in fief to the caliphs brother Mowaffaq (famous for his defeat of the Zanj), Ahmad secured himself in his post by extensive bribery at headquarters; and in the following year the administration of the Syri,an frontier was conferred on him as well.

Conviction for bribery, perjury or other infamous crime, or failure (in the case of a collector or holder of public moneys) to account for and pay over all moneys due from him are disqualifications; and before entering upon the duties of his office each member of the legislature must take a prescribed oath that he has neither given nor promised anything to influence voters at the election, and that he will not accept, directly or indirectly, "money or other valuable thing from any corporation, company or person" for his vote or influence upon proposed legislation.

Disfranchisement is brought about by conviction for bribery, felony or infamous crime, and an attempt to vote after such conviction is a felony.

Annius Milo on the Appian Way (on the 18th of January), which brought about the appointment of Pompey as sole consul and the passing of the special laws dealing with rioting and bribery.

Yet there is no way that a strategy to control overseas bribery can work without it being clearly effective in the arms sector.

This way, no political parties will have to depend on donations, dubious loans or alleged bribery for their election activities.

It sheds light on the institutionalized racism that assumes the Third World to be inherently corrupt and corruptible, a view which underwrites bribery.

On their fat salaries and the extra they get from bribery and corruption they can afford to buy imported foodstuffs.

But any real mother knows bribery starts from before babies can talk, and gets more inventive every day.

Many US companies set up branch offices in Canada to take advantage of the relatively lax bribery laws there.