bribery
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In April 2026, a court in Shenzhen said Xu had pleaded guilty and "expressed remorse" for crimes including fraud, embezzlement and bribery.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Hui Ka Yan pleaded guilty in April to several charges, including embezzlement of assets and corporate bribery.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Unlike the British, from whom the America’s founders adapted impeachment, the Framers wrote a definition of impeachable conduct into the Constitution—“treason, bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
The country ranked 104th out of 182 in Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions Index after decades of bribery and influence-peddling scandals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
By means of bribery and persuasion and threats, Madame Babushkinov had finally convinced her to stop acting like a coward and get out of bed.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
The barefaced acts of injustice and shameless briberies daily occurring in the Mehkames, or halls of justice, would seem almost incredible to an European, and especially an Englishman.
From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt
These deities might be lured by certain rites and briberies into a transfer of their favors to the besieging army.
From Autobiographical Sketches by Thomas De Quincey
One had to run the gauntlet of the custom-house here, and to practise unheard-of briberies upon the venal douaniers of the Pope before being allowed to pass on to his hotel.
From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan
In spite of all the watchfulness, and all the briberies of his police, he could never bend to his own service the whole of this power.
From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
By the aid of certain small briberies on the train and in Paris Carmichael gathered, bit by bit, that the destination of the woman he loved was America.
From The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath
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