(n.) A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust.
(n.) That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
(v. t.) To rob or steal.
(v. t.) To give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge, juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to.
(v. t.) To gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe.
(v. i.) To commit robbery or theft.
(v. i.) To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Berlusconi aide, Valter Lavitola, is also on trial for being the alleged intermediary in the bribe.
(2) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
(3) Also in June, a former welfare minister, Shlomo Benizri , was jailed for four years for taking bribes while in office.
(4) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
(5) That’s why many parents in North Korea have started bribing government officers even before their kids graduate high school.
(6) Nonetheless, Blatter was investigated by Swiss police over his attempts in secret to repay more than £1m worth of bribes pocketed by football officials.
(7) The Sunday Mirror went to court seeking an injunction to order the NoW to stop trying to bribe its staff.
(8) • Moldova's president offered a $10m (£6.4m) bribe to a political rival in a desperate bid to keep his defeated communist government in power , according to a secret US diplomatic cable.
(9) Most immediately in Zurich is the likely publication of a settlement made in court in the Swiss canton of Zug, in connection with alleged bribes paid to senior Fifa officials in the late 1990s by the marketing company ISL.
(10) Mohamed Bin Hammam, the disgraced former president of the Asian Football Confederation, has been linked to paying a string of bribes during the Qatari’s failed bid to become Fifa president, with some linking his activities to the concurrent Qatar 2022 bid.
(11) It has previously been reported that Brazilian prosecutors believe Maluf took bribes and construction kickbacks amounting to US$344m during his mayoralty between 1993 and 1996.
(12) He was responsible for securing vital uranium-enrichment technology, photographing centrifuge blueprints that a German executive had been bribed into temporarily "mislaying" in his kitchen.
(13) The rush to make a new offer on devolution, promised within hours of publication of the shock poll result on Sunday, triggered accusations of panic and bogus bribes.
(14) In 2010, FA chairman Lord Triesman was forced to resign after a Mail on Sunday sting operation captured him speculating about referees being bribed and, in 2004, FA chief executive Mark Palios quit after trying to cover up an affair with secretary Faria Alam.
(15) It was the same in the last game: women were there to nag you, or be bribed – whether with fancy dinners or cold, hard cash – into having sex with you.
(16) The majority of the US indictment was devoted to outlining complex schemes in which executives from Conmebol and Concacaf allegedly took bribes on TV and marketing contracts over decades amounting to $150m.
(17) Those borders remain hotbeds of corruption and abuse: traders are regularly harassed, sexually abused, or forced to pay bribes.
(18) Rolls-Royce was first dragged into the scandal in February after a former Petrobras executive alleged the group paid him and others bribes in exchange for contracts with the oil company.
(19) On Monday the company announced the settlement with the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), after accepting that its defence and civil aerospace divisions had paid bribes and corrupted officials and politicians around the world.
(20) The couple were detained last July soon after Chinese authorities accused GSK – one of Humphrey's clients – of bribing doctors and hospital administrators to sell its products.
Bride
Definition:
(n.) A woman newly married, or about to be married.
(n.) Fig.: An object ardently loved.
(v. t.) To make a bride of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 1921 the average age at marriage has increased by 3.6 years for brides and 1.7 years for grooms.
(2) Neal Cassady Drops Dead, Kick the Bride Down the Aisle and The Bullfighter Dies: track titles like thse could only come from the new Morrissey album.
(3) I am staying here [in an abusive marriage] to protect them’.” Mifumi estimates that 68% of women in Uganda have faced some form of domestic violence, and the NGO says the bride price remains the biggest contributor to these cases.
(4) The original 1991 Father of the Bride was based on the 1950 film of the same name, while 1995's Father of the Bride II was loosely based on 1951's Father's Little Dividend, a sequel to the earlier movie.
(5) I went to a screening for real-life brides, women who I cannot describe as my kind of women – really nice and all that, but fancy wanting to get married.
(6) Then came Virgin Vie, Virgin Vision, Virgin Vodka, Virgin Wine, Virgin Jeans, Virgin Brides, Virgin Cosmetics and Virgin Cars - none fulfilling their creator's inflated dreams.
(7) Even though the families have very little money, they save what money they have to cut their daughters, because otherwise they will not get a bride price from the future husband," Dirie said.
(8) So, the specific IgE and IgG4 antibodies to soybean may be play the role of "the bride" between specific IgE antibody group and specific IgG4 antibody group of food allergens.
(9) Formal analysis of the time series showed upward trends in the proportions of brides "at risk" in the 16-17 age groups, and in the proportions of children "at risk" born to brides in the 16 to 22 age range.
(10) For this reason, I thought, of all the brides, she would be my kind of bride (I don't know why: it's not like I have any piercings).
(11) The bride answers: “Well, monthly instalments are only for objects, so if you expect monthly instalments from me, that means your son is an object I can use as I wish.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A film from the Beti Padhao, Beti Badhao initiative In the second video, a bride is about to go for a ride on a scooter with her husband.
(12) Naseer insisted the emails consisted only of harmless banter about looking for a potential bride after going to England to take computer science classes.
(13) Meanwhile, we have this second-tier ITV offering in which a hen weekend or wedding party has been infiltrated by an actor playing an “over the top” character who the bride insists is a long lost-friend or family member.
(14) I gaze, bemused and, yes, fascinated, at curious anthropological artefacts such as Bride Wars or He's Just Not That Into You or Confessions of a Shopaholic, in which Kate Hudson or Ginnifer Goodwin or Isla Fisher play characters who might almost belong to a third gender, a bubble-headed one that emits ear-splitting shrieks, teeters constantly on the verge of hysteria and acts as an indiscriminate mouthpiece for the placement of overpriced tat.
(15) Alison, meanwhile, is a prime example of what Gilbert describes as someone freed from “the Tyranny of the Bride”: having done it once, and particularly having had a child, she feels no overwhelming need to do it again.
(16) New world celebrity will meet old world monarchy on Friday as Prince William and his bride land in California to kick off a three-day visit to America that has made the royal pair the hottest couple in Hollywood.
(17) But with seven out of 10 titles losing sales – Easy Living, GQ, House & Garden, World of Interiors, Glamour, Vogue and Condé Nast Traveller – Condé Nast's results risk looking more bridesmaid than bride.
(18) "There are different forms of child marriage but all have one common point: the girl doesn't have a voice," Françoise Kpeglo Moudouthe, Africa regional officer for the advocacy group Girls Not Brides , said.
(19) A crossing at Quneitra, operated by the UN, allows the movement of UN personnel, truckloads of apples, a few Druze students and the occasional Syrian bride in white.
(20) Bride said: "In North America, we have witnessed the devastating effect the Walmart model has had on small business, suppliers and communities."