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There’s been billions in government money unilaterally allocated to “farmers,” but the line on that has been that money is kind of a bribe so that American farmers don’t get mad about the tariffs that have been going on.

From Eater

There were many organizations that didn’t pay bribes and were able to complete their work.

The Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, which performed these audits, did find that billions of dollars across all projects — though not Yahn’s specifically — had been lost to corruption and bribes.

She recalled her personal experience standing up to threats and declining bribes.

It uncovered hefty bribes to get undeserving kids into college with rigged test scores or fake athletic credentials.

From Fortune

Cocaine busts, tax cheats, and bribe-taking, born-again Christians: Welcome to the political scandals of 2014.

In a sense, she attempts to bribe the pastor, offering to make his church her home.

But at least in Moscow, a bribe or a good connection stand you a fighting chance to get what you need.

Asked if he did anything wrong, Cianci responded simply, “I was not guilty of conspiracy to take a bribe.”

“I did not have enough money to bribe the judge, so I decided to become a mercenary,” Mozhayev told a local reporter.

If you knew an honourable man was to be offered a bribe to do a dishonourable act, you would feel sure he would refuse it.

It throve because it came with the tempting bribe of Heaven in one hand, and the withering threat of Hell in the other.

Father is in a rage because I will not stay home; he offered me to-day the deed for two hundred acres as a bribe.

He tried to bribe us to let him go, and made us repeated offers until he reached a figure as high as ten thousand dollars.

He said he had sat the whole day at the Central Station watching passengers giving bribe to procure their tickets.

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On this page you'll find 91 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bribe, such as: blackmail, compensation, gift, graft, gratuity, and hush money.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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