(n.) The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements.
Example Sentences:
(1) No evidence has been produced that she was personally involved in the bribery, but some are wondering whether the Petrobras scandal might turn into a Watergate for her.
(2) Secrecy was encouraged and bribery, threats, and peer pressure used to induce participation in sexual activities.
(3) Special prosecutors investigating Park’s relationship with her longtime confidante , Choi Soon-sil, had demanded Lee’s arrest on charges of bribery, embezzlement and perjury.
(4) Britain's Serious Fraud Office has launched a formal criminal investigation into GlaxoSmithKline's sales practices, piling further pressure on the drugmaker which is already being investigated by Chinese authorities and elsewhere amid allegations of bribery.
(5) In 1998 the Law Commission recommended general reform of the bribery laws, but a draft bill in 2003 failed to win broad support in pre-legislative scrutiny.
(6) The verdicts came as GSK finds itself the target of a separate corruption investigation in China after a whistleblower raised allegations of widespread bribery.
(7) Vince Cable, the business secretary, who was savagely critical of BAE over bribery allegations whilst in opposition in 2010 , said: "It is a very, very important decision and has major implications for the country, both in terms of employment and national security.
(8) • In Nigeria , Rolls-Royce failed to prevent bribery in relation to two contracts for which it was bidding.
(9) He said there was no legal guidance given to reporters on the matter until the Bribery Act came out in 2010.
(10) The judicial screws are tightening on Rupert Murdoch's empire in America as the US justice department prepares to subpoena News Corporation in its investigation into whether the company broke anti-bribery and hacking laws on both sides of the Atlantic.
(11) This is some "Englishman's castle", merely the direct result of half a century of political bribery .
(12) It starts with bribery or intimidation of officials, then there's threats and violence against those people.
(13) In its report, the FCA said: "Given our strong regulatory focus and previous publications on anti-money laundering and anti-bribery and corruption we expected firms to have taken more action.
(14) TeliaSonera, also under investigation in the United States and the Netherlands, denies allegations of bribery and money-laundering, but has acknowledged that “the processes for conducting some transactions have not been in line with sound business practices”.
(15) The company is potentially liable under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which bans US-based companies from profiting from bribery and corruption in other countries.
(16) Anti-corruption campaigners have criticised the SFO for letting BAE plead guilty to minor offences and a small penalty to end years of bribery investigations.
(17) A jury has convicted former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen of corruption, fraud and bribery, after the couple accepted more than $165,000 in gifts and loans from a businessman.
(18) The Liberal Democrats, the only major political party not implicated in charges of collusion with past bribery on arms deals, last night joined anti-corruption campaigners in welcoming the findings: David Howarth, their justice spokesman, said "This is a devastating report."
(19) Several Congress members have called for the company to be held accountable under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a federal law that punishes firms based in the US that engage in bribery abroad.
(20) Therefore, we still have to wait and see if this is a real case or not.” Earlier this year, in a response straight from the Blatter playbook, he also led the charge against “racist” media allegations of bribery against the Qatar 2022 World Cup bid.“We will face all these racist attempts and attacks and will stand with Qatar,” he declared.
Robbery
Definition:
(n.) The act or practice of robbing; theft.
(n.) The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arizona on Wednesday executed the oldest person on its death row, nearly 35 years after he was charged with murdering a Bisbee man during a robbery.
(2) According to the author's observations in a federal penitentiary, bank robbery more often is a symptomatic act with psychological meaning.
(3) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
(4) In his memoirs, Reynolds recalls how, just before the Great Train Robbery took place, he had smoked a Montecristo No 2 cigar: "The thought ran through my mind: I have brought Cuba to Buckinghamshire."
(5) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
(6) Police chief Wolfgang Albers, 60, had been criticised for the handling of the violence, with a leaked police report describing this week how officers were initially overwhelmed by events outside the city’s train station, after which more than 100 women filed criminal complaints of sexual assault and robbery, including two accounts of rape.
(7) A suspect has been charged with murder and robbery in the case.
(8) Two people were arrested on Thursday night following an attempted smash-and-grab robbery at Selfridges department store in central London .
(9) The name, Sallah Ali, that he had given to police when he was arrested for robbery in the south of France 2013, might not be the correct name, he said.
(10) James Mason is an IRA man holed up in a safe house, who leaves his confinement to lead a bank robbery.
(11) Zschäpe was arrested in November 2011, after the bodies of Mundlos and Böhnhardt were found in a burnt out caravan in Eisenach, following a bank robbery that went badly wrong, after which the men apparently killed each other in a suicide pact.
(12) Car theft led to a third sentence, and it was during that time that he was to meet Bruce Reynolds , the mastermind of the Great Train Robbery.
(13) But despite the attention to detail with which the robbery was executed, fatal errors soon led the police to the doors of most of those who had participated.
(14) The plot revolved around the death of a mentally disturbed pizza delivery man who ends up killing himself in a robbery.
(15) It is the 50th anniversary of the Great Train Robbery, on Thursday.
(16) The two men believed to have founded the NSU with her, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt, set their caravan on fire and killed themselves in 2011 after a bank robbery went wrong.
(17) In Thursday's robbery the thieves all fled the scene within minutes.
(18) Photograph: AP Abdeslam, who had had several brushes with the law and spent time in prison for armed robbery in 2010, came agonisingly close to arrest in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, but slipped through police hands.
(19) For female victims, homicides resulted from disputes in 62.2 per cent of cases, drug-related activities in 13.8 per cent, and robberies in 20.0 per cent of cases.
(20) The interim report found that out of a sample of 2,551 incidents that should have been recorded as crimes officers wrongly failed to record 523 of them including sexual offences, crimes of violence, robbery and burglary.