See, e.g., solicitations at www.FedBid.com.

On Twitter, organized bribery attempts were reported.

Attempted bribery.

There is, of course, a long tradition of racketeering in professional sports.

Soft power is the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion or payment.

Corrupt regimes, through intimidation and bribery, insisted on the loyalty of the bureaucracy, police, and armed services.

Hu no doubt looked for ways to resuscitate the talks, but not by buying off Kim with aid.

He was detained by Egyptian forces for his attempts at bribery, and refused permission to return to the Sudan.

Over time, they invented fascinating ways to control their subjects, combining education, bribery, and force.

He has engaged in blatant checkbook diplomacy by giving away, with little to show for it, Venezuela s oil resources to countries like Cuba. Venezuela s oil reserves are vast, but they should not be squandered on foreign adventures disguised as economic integration.

(a) It has been acquired by theft, bribery, coercion, fraud, trespass, deception, misrepresentation, or other illicit or dishonest means

But an effective market economy needs to minimize the incentives and opportunities for corruption, or it will turn into something worse.

In Portugal, the use of threats, physical violence and intimidation to obtain false testimony was criminalized but not the use of bribery for the same purpose.

The price of plank cedar in Lahore is incentive enough to corrupt, or kill, any Green Corps men brave enough to stand in their way.

For the use of hard power resources, two skills are particularly important organizational capacity and a Machiavellian proficiency in bullying, buying, and bargaining to form winning coalitions.

It was a well known fact that the Kuwaiti regime had been spending money not to help refugees, but rather to give bribes, create crises and help continue the blockade against the Iraqi people.

The giant fossil fuel companies have continued to lobby behind the scenes against the shift to low carbon energy, and have used their vast wealth to buy media coverage designed to sow confusion.

The document brought together analytical work on anti corruption measures and commitments undertaken over a period of years in the elimination of bribery in international business transactions.

Drugs are smuggled by the most effective methods of camouflage, sometimes by resorting to bribery and the temptation of material gain and, if the need arises, by force and coercion.

The workshop unanimously adopted the Dakar Declaration, in which the Ministers expressed their concern about the increase and expansion of organized criminal activities, corrupt practices and bribery in international commercial transactions.

Meanwhile, through arrests, threats, and bribery, authorities are forcing villagers to withdraw accounts of abuse and back out of their lawsuits, warning of the dire consequences of cooperating with Chen and the lawyers.

In 1872, a man named Ernest Seyd was given Ł100,000 (about 5,000,000 then) by the Bank of England and sent to America to bribe the necessary Congressmen to get silver demonetised .