You couldn't get it. You had to bribe.

A traffic police accepting bribe from a bus conductor, Yangon, Myanmar.

I'm sure there's an option that doesn't involve a bribe.

Courts were bought, documents forged, and the process went smoothly.

You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

And thou shalt take no gift for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

She was released the next day, after her father had paid a bribe to the police.

Even the former president of the Philippines government has been accused of receiving kickbacks for supporting the mega deals.

'Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

(c) One staff member was alleged to have accepted bribes from a refugee (for an unknown amount).

In many cases, civil offenders used to pay a bribe (between 10 and 20 dirhams.

There was also a strong suspicion that the French were trying to find a way to buy off Turkey with a relationship falling well short of European Union membership.

When a party to judicial proceedings offers a bribe to a judge or other court official, and the bribe is accepted, that party automatically acquires a privileged status in relation to other parties who have not offered, or are not in a position to offer, a bribe or inducement.

Nyan Linn Aung uploaded a video of a traffic police accepting bribe from public and private buses in Myanmar.

Sometimes we offer bribes ourselves, sometimes they are being extorted from us but most often bribes are taken and given because this is how the system works.

You shall not wrest justice you shall not respect persons neither shall you take a bribe for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Thou shalt not wrest judgment thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't respect persons, nor takes reward.

For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward

CA But if it's a 3,000 rupee, 70 dollar bribe, what fee would you have to charge, and can you actually make the business work?

Landis banned two New York Giants from the Series for attempting to bribe members of the Philadelphia Phillies late in the season.

Instances of bribery, theft of public funds and corruption continue to be reported and appear to be on the increase, particularly in the areas of procurement and customs. At the first meeting of the consultative group (see para.

Other factors were probably far more important, including buying off Sunni insurgents so that they fight with the United States against Al Qaeda.

The Mauritanian state is feeling the upcoming threat of the Mauritanian bloggers to expose its anti democratic behavior.

Admittedly, the country s dire economic condition and its urgent need for energy made the agreement venal in a way.

The companies routinely bribe officials to gain oil leases, lie about output, evade taxes, and dodge responsibility for the environmental damage that they cause.

On the other hand, with indirect language, if you issue a veiled bribe, then the dishonest officer could interpret it as a bribe, in which case you get the payoff of going free.

Europe and America were slow to enact legislation barring their companies from bribing foreign government officials in return for mining concessions or other advantages, and there has been limited enforcement of the rules.

In May 2012, anti corruption activists in Kenya launched their own I Paid a Bribe project, modeled after and in partnership with the Indian counterpart (GV text is here).

Oil revenues enable them to bribe the population to remain politically passive, while discouraging the creation of the kind of free market system that breeds democracy.

And she was thinking about her friends and family who work in chaos ridden places and developing countries, and she was thinking, what can I make that would be of value to them, in case something bad happens and they have to buy their way across the border or pay off a gunman?

While the Wahhabis could yet be bribed again with oil money, the sect s power hungry judges eagerly await the next beheading, stoning, or lashing in Riyadh s public square.

The US tried to bribe the Israelis with 3 billion in fighter jets and political support at the UN into suspending settlement activities for three months.

Another scandal hit the institution a few months ago when president's chief of staff Isselkou Ould Izidbih tried to bribe some students so that they renounce their activism. Instead, they refused and revealed the case to the media.

And I failed. I went through a phase where I became obsessed with my mother s killers. Who were they?

And therefore, there was a indeed a prisoner's dilemma, which made it very difficult for an individual company, an individual exporting country to say, We are not going to continue this deadly, disastrous habit of large companies to bribe.

To achieve that, the European Union has made the inevitable, almost ridiculous proposal of bribing developing nations to take part at a cost of 175 billion annually by 2020.

The Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions was signed in December 1997 by 29 OECD members and 5 non members (Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile and Slovakia).

How can it be implemented without looking like bribery (in case the company gives the funds directly to the government)? And how can companies prevent some of the funds from being misused (say, if the government hires a third rate team)?

The system is hardest on first generation graduates who lack a highly placed relative to help them into the workforce they are often left with no option but to pay a hefty bribe to advance their careers.

Mexfiles also notes that the Calderon administration passed new anti trust laws and wonders whether Wal Mart s aggressive bribery and expansion practices could be considered unfair competition against both big and small Mexican retail businesses pushed from the market

In India, there is the I Paid A Bribe crowdsourcing initiative, which was launched in August 2010 to people to not put up with official abuse of power and to report their stories of bribery to 'uncover the market price of corruption' (GV text is here).