(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.
Brize
Definition:
(n.) The breeze fly. See Breeze.
Example Sentences:
(1) The C-130 transport aircraft flew from RAF Brize Norton to deliver aid, with government sources suggesting a repeat of the airdrops could follow on Sunday.
(2) The first consignment of UK emergency aid has left RAF Brize Norton for Iraq.
(3) The bodies of 17 British victims have been repatriated since Wednesday, all being flown into RAF Brize Norton.
(4) David Cameron is heading for a collision with the French president François Hollande over his EU changes at the Anglo-French summit at RAF Brize Norton on Friday after the Elysée Palace challenged the prime minister's referendum timetable.
(5) Her visit, which has many of the trappings of a state visit rarely offered to a head of government, contrasts with the low key reception for the French president, François Hollande, at the Anglo-French summit last month at RAF Brize Norton.
(6) One Gulfstream V executive jet, for example, which has changed its tail number several times and has been linked with a number of abductions, is a regular visitor to Glasgow airport, and also flies in and out of Luton, Northolt and Brize Norton.
(7) Sutyagin insists – and others, including the US government, concur – that he was the odd one out, an innocent pawn in a murky game that ended at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.
(8) There were also flights in and out of RAF Northolt and RAF Brize Norton.
(9) The RAF C-17 aircraft carrying the victims landed at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire at 3pm on Saturday.
(10) The UK sent the first of the RAF C-17 transport aircraft to France on Sunday afternoon, and the second is expected to leave RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire early on Monday.
(11) Numerous UK air bases, including Greenham Common, Brize Norton and Mildenhall, were used in the exercise, much of which is still shrouded in secrecy.
(12) And we all saw that during their press conference at RAF Brize Norton on Friday when the president - who came to talk about Europe and defence and history and government spending - was asked by the man from a British newspaper (the super, soaraway Telegraph) about the recent entanglements in his private life.