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Example sentences for: bribery

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Answer: If a senator were to write a letter saying, "Dear Big Donor: Give my campaign $1,000 and I will vote to renew the tax break for your industry," and if Big Donor were to donate $1,000, that would constitute illegal bribery.
He got the House to investigate charges of bribery involving his rivals Pomeroy and Clarke--which in fact turned up some damning evidence against them.
But the independent parliament was short-lived — against Grattan’s opposition, and through bribery and corruption, it voted to dissolve itself in 1800.
(Grabbe's conspiracy-theory net is so wide that it encompasses Clinton's alleged cocaine habit, the "bombing" of Ron Brown's plane, Foster's espionage history, the machinations of Bert Lance, and the bribery of Mike Wallace.)
If such activity is considered bribery when foreign nationals engage in it, why is it any different when domestic entities put our campaign system of legalized bribery to use?