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Bribes were offered to secure the contract, and not all of the money was spent on the upkeep of the roads.

Bribes were initially considered not to be held on constructive trust, but were considered to be held as a debt by the fiduciary to the principal.

The Secretary was also blamed for the Bribes in the Argentine Senate scandal, in which SIDE provided money that later were used to bribe senators to support government legislation.

The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote-Rigging and Ticket Scandals implicated Havelange in the collapse of ISL and revealed how some football officials had been urged to secretly repay the commissions they received.

Bribes to government officials are considered de rigueur and tax evasion is common ; this is seen in many parts of Africa, for instance.

His Ganimeds and Favourites tooke Bribes ", biographers continue to debate about Bacon's sexual inclinations and the precise nature of his personal relationships.

Bribes may be demanded in order for an official to do something he is already paid to do.

Since that time, the majority of the OECD countries which are signatories of the convention have revised their tax policies according to this recommendation and some have extended the measures to bribes paid to any official, sending the message that bribery will no longer be tolerated in the operations of the government .< ref >“ Tax Treatment of Bribes: About ”, < u > OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration </ u >, OECD. org, 17 July 2007 < http :// www. oecd. org / about / 0, 3347, en_2649_34551_1_1_1_1_1, 00. html >.</ ref >

White Was Target Of Investigation White Was Target Of Federal Probe FBI Affidavit Says Bribes Secured City Contracts by Mike Tobin.

NOW on PBS: Oil, Politics & Bribes The scandalous connection between VECO Corporation — an Alaska-based oil services company — and Alaska's old-boy Republican network.

De Santibañes resigned the position in 2000 after the media discovered the Secretariat's involvement in the Sentate Bribes scandals.

The forest had become an alien world where she strove, alone, unprotected, unguided, to deal with whatever hindrances were offered.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

All the women got up and offered their chairs, and when they were all seated again, the guests made their inquiries and their explanations.

Roleplaying was offered as a solution -- and the procedure worked as follows: all candidates were invited to a hotel conference room, where the president explained the difficulty he had, and how unnecessary it seemed to him to hire people who just did not work out.

Some of the earliest recordings, made in the 1940's demonstrated that psychiatrists reacted immediately to anger and anxiety in the sound track, whereas written records of the same interview offered far fewer cues to therapy which -- if they were at all discernible in print -- were picked up only by the most skilled and sensitive experts.

The school was established in Germantown and the Alcotts were offered a rent-free home by Haines.

Johnson attempted to make the most of the opportunities the position offered, using it as a springboard to higher honors, as the Governor's powers in the state were limited to offering mere suggestions on legislation ( with no veto power ), and managing the Bank of Tennessee and the penitentiary.

More foods were now available: feral goats – introduced by earlier sailors – provided him with meat and milk and wild turnips, cabbage, and black pepper berries offered him variety and spice.

CPU upgrades were offered by both Commodore and third-party manufacturers.

The Melians were offered a choice to join the Athenians, or be conquered.

Human sacrifices were also offered to him.

42 ), after the passing of the Licinian rogations in 367 BC, an extra day was added to the Roman games ; the aediles refused to bear the additional expense, whereupon the patricians offered to undertake it, on condition that they were admitted to the aedileship.

Such services were previously offered in the United States by companies such as FuturePhone. com.

These events were especially popular with BBSes that offered chat rooms.

In mid-1986 six ex-Philippine Air Force SF. 260WP Warrior armed trainers / light strike aircraft were acquired from a dealer in Belgium, which offered the FABF a much simpler and less expensive alternative in tactical air support to the expensive MiGs.

On 2 September, Skippon, having been told that his infantry were unable to break out as the cavalry had done, and having been offered generous terms by the King, surrendered 6, 000 infantry and all his army's guns and train.

BBC Text was considerably more advanced than Ceefax, in that it offered a richer visual interface, with the possibility of photographic images and designed graphics ( as opposed to Ceefax graphics which were composed of simple blocks of colour ).

Birmingham City Council offered loans to those who were unable to repair their properties, and the area has now made a full recovery.

There were sufficient hard up borrowers to take the inducement offered them by management ( in spite of few simple sums sufficing to demonstrate that they were probably going to end up effectively paying back the inducement ).

Xenophon notes that at his time, 90 years after the battle, goats were still offered yearly.

For the Bandanese, on the other hand, although they welcomed another competitor purchaser for their spices, the items of trade offered by the Dutch — heavy woollens, and damasks, unwanted manufactured goods, for example — were usually unsuitable in comparison to traditional trade products.

The Free French, under General Charles de Gaulle, were determined to recover Indochina, though they offered Cambodia and the other Inchochinese protectorates a carefully circumscribed measure of self-government.

Traditionally, throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, these were published in newspapers, with horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in daily newspapers, while Sunday newspapers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections.

This early ninth century military leader is commemorated in this way because he is said to have ordered huge illuminated lanterns to be placed at the top of hills ; and when the curious Emishi approached these bright lights to investigate, they were captured and subdued by Tamuramaro's men.

However, many theories exist in relation to the details of this event, including the location of Watarishima and the common belief that the Emishi in Watarishima were the ancestors of the present-day Ainu people.

In fact many of the feudal strongmen were descended from Emishi military leaders who had been assimilated into Japanese society.

According to legend, the taishogun is remembered for having ordered huge illuminated lanterns to be placed at the top of hills ; and when the curious Emishi approached these bright lights to investigate, they were captured and subdued.

While the entire island of Honshū was claimed by the Japanese, or Yamato, government from earliest times as a sort of divine right or manifest destiny, the imperial forces were unable to occupy any part of what would become Iwate until 802 when two powerful Emishi leaders, Aterui and More, surrendered at Fort Isawa.

The Emishi were represented by different tribes, some of whom became allies of the Japanese ( fushu, ifu ) and others of whom remained hostile ( iteki ).

The first major attempts to subjugate the Emishi in the 8th century were largely unsuccessful.

The imperial armies, which were modeled after the mainland Chinese armies, were no match for the guerrilla tactics of the Emishi.

The kanji character may have been adopted from China, but the reading " Ebisu " and " Emishi " were Japanese in origin, and most likely came from either the Japanese " yumishi " which means bowman ( their main weapon ), or " emushi " which is sword in the Ainu tongue.

Guerilla warfare was practiced by the horse riding Emishi who kept up pressure on these forts, but Emishi allies ifu and fushu were also recruited and promoted by the Japanese to fight against their kinsmen.

Large Japanese forces were recruited, numbering in the thousands, the largest forces perhaps ten to twenty thousand strong fighting against an Emishi force that numbered at most around three thousand warriors, and at any one place around a thousand.

The Shiwa Emishi were a very powerful group and were able to attack smaller Emishi groups successfully as their leaders were promoted into imperial rank.

North of the Kitakami River the Emishi were still independent, but the large scale threat that they posed ceased with the defeat of the Isawa Emishi in 802.

This regime and others such as the Abe and Kiyohara were created by local Japanese gōzoku and became regional semi-independent states based on the Emishi and Japanese people.

The Northern Fujiwara were thought to have been Emishi, but there is some doubt as to the lineage of them, and if they were descended from local Japanese families who resided in the Tōhoku ( unrelated to the Fujiwara of Kyoto ) then the study would confirm this.