In Germany, we have a system where you are not allowed to bribe a civil servant, but you are allowed to bribe a deputy.

This is not bribery, what we are doing. This is customary there.

I bribed one of his servants to get me an impression of the lock.

Men bribed the hairdresser for a lock of her hair.

There were no visitors allowed, so my mother bribed a hospital worker.

And in the first session, they all said, This is not bribery, what we are doing. This is customary there.

We paid more than 50 per person so the smuggler could bribe his way through the checkpoints.

If you don't bribe the officer, then you will get a traffic ticket or, as is the case of Fargo, worse whether the honest officer is honest or dishonest.

Usually, the bank takes months to process the application, and may demand a bribe even in the unlikely event it is willing to take on the credit risk.

States parties to the Convention pledged to punish those accused of bribing officials in foreign countries with a view to retaining trust in international business.

This helps explain the intense corruption present in Afghan courts, where honor can be redeemed by bribing a judge to have a rapist or murderer released.

If you don't bribe the officer, then you will get a traffic ticket or, as is the case of Fargo, worse whether the honest officer is honest or dishonest.

In addition, corruption feeds on governmental policies that generate rent seekers and allow some members of society to capture unjustified profits by bribing governmental officials.

America s response was to bribe Brazil, which had brought the complaint, not to pursue the matter further, leaving in the lurch millions of poor cotton farmers in Sub Saharan Africa and India, who suffer from depressed prices because of America s largesse to its wealthy farmers.