Eksempler på bribe

• The costs of business become unnecessarily high due to the inevitability of bribes and red-tape.

• Frequently, they had to pay bribes in order to get an appointment.

• However, news reports indicate that police forces were more interested in mounting illegal checkpoints and extorting bribes from civilians than in maintaining law and order.

• As this involved bribes, naturally the state banned it as illegal.

• Other factors include explicit or implicit requirements to give bribes and gifts to, and incompetence of, government functionaries.

• Specifically, the costs associated with administrative corruption, namely paying bribes, impose a significant burden on firms.

• They were corrupt, accumulated bribes and gifts, and opposed major reforms in the operation of the papacy.

• With a mass electorate, on the other hand, politicians seeking re-election are encouraged to promise legislation, not bribes, favours and privileges.

• Thus, one mechanism through which political competition reduces corruption is the re-election imperative, which lowers the demand for bribes.

• Low-level officials collect bribes and pass a share to those at higher levels.

• The clerk accused the qadi of taking bribes and neglecting to follow proper procedure.

• Similarly, people who worked in ministries and other bureaucratic institutions would often be much more helpful once they were bribed.

• The authors argue that offers of monetary compensation are often perceived as bribes.

• There should be no question of bribing potential entrants.

• A master was accused of threatening witnesses with violence on the court's premises, another of bribing mariners to testify against their mates." "!