Bribed
in example sentence
Peasant farmers may, for a time, be
bribed
or intimidated (the Taliban executes Afghan poppy growers) into cultivating crops other than poppy or coca.
More example sentences with word bribed
Family members had
bribed
officials to interrupt the hereditary transfer of land by having the brothers declared dead, allowing them to inherit their father's share of the ancestral farmland.
"I'm convinced," I told a German official with the World Bank, "that it would be impossible for them to be
bribed
if they worked in Germany, in a German administration, just as I am convinced that if you put German officials from the German administration in those holes, they would be
bribed
just the same."
There were no visitors allowed, so my mother
bribed
a hospital worker.
They had to prepare a case to get rating agencies to give it a AAA, though in many cases, they had virtually
bribed
the rating agencies.
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