Police shouldn't take bribes.

Corruption, bribes, and lack of transparency.

He stood on moral ground and refused to pay bribes.

Lobbyists for the bill funneled bribes into a campaign fund.

in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

Like a bribe buster service, or 1 800 Fight Bribes, or www.stopbribes.org or www.preventcorruption.org.

So the puzzle is, why are bribes, polite requests, solicitations and threats so often veiled?

The officer was just sitting on it and was demanding around 3,000 rupees in bribes.

The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.

The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.

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

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

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

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

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

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

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

Led by four powerful godfathers, they operate like a Fortune 500 company just with more government bribes and violent actions.

It can be worth up to one trillion dollars, being paid in bribes every year, or equal to India's GDP.

According to World Bank estimate, one trillion dollars is paid in bribes every year, worsening the condition of the already worse off.

Although the police proposed bribes in return for dismissing the case, the author, claiming that he was innocent, chose to face trial.

Most directly, it diverts resources to the rich people, who can afford to pay bribes and away from the poor people, who cannot.

A group of us have been working on a pilot basis to address individual instances of demands for bribes for common services or entitlement.

Bribes and corruption have both a demand and a supply side, with the supply side being mostly of greedy corporate unethical businesses and hapless common man.

And in a more subtle way, I think, this works for all of the veiled speech acts involving plausible deniability the bribes, threats, propositions, solicitations and so on.

I propose to explore this idea further, to examine the potential of creating a for profit, fee based BPO kind of service to stop bribes and prevent corruption.

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Senior government officials take their cut of opium revenues or bribes in return for keeping quiet. Perversely, some provincial governors and government officials are themselves major players in the drug trade.

And you see many of them (Jews) hurrying for sin and transgression, and eating illegal things as bribes and Riba (usury), etc. . Evil indeed is that which they have been doing.

And you see many of them (Jews) hurrying for sin and transgression, and eating illegal things as bribes and Riba (usury), etc. . Evil indeed is that which they have been doing.

And do not consume one another s wealth by unjust means, nor offer it as bribes to the officials in order to consume part of other people s wealth illicitly, while you know.

And do not consume one another s wealth by unjust means, nor offer it as bribes to the officials in order to consume part of other people s wealth illicitly, while you know.

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.

(ii) Taking legal, administrative and political measures against corruption, including by disclosing and investigating and punishing all those involved in acts of corruption and by criminalizing payment of commissions and bribes to public officials

Based on surveys of local officials, patronage, not merit, has become the most critical factor in the appointment process. For those without guanxi, the only recourse is to purchase appointments and promotions through bribes.

Finally, the corruption that was endemic in Qaddafi s regime endures, with ministry officials accepting bribes, for example, in exchange for contracts. For their part, the militias that overthrew Qaddafi have released prisoners in exchange for ransom payments.

He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil