The other gods bribed Hera with a beautiful necklace nobody could resist and then finally gave in.

Because of his attempts to form a labor union among the workers, Arturo and the other organizers are attacked and murdered by government troops when a co-worker is bribed to betray them — Arturo's severed head is seen hanging from a tree.

Kimon is charged by Pericles and other democratic politicians with having been bribed not to attack the King of Macedonia ( who may have been suspected of covertly helping the Thasian rebels ).

Because Chávez was promoted by Don King and Steele had made decisions that had been questioned in other King promoted fights, there was widespread speculation over whether King had somehow bribed Steele, particularly when it came to light that Taylor's trainer Lou Duva had specifically objected to the appointment of Steele and been overruled by the boxing authorities.

Publishers were bribed, critics accused of running secret campaigns to further other nations ' colonial ambitions, and eyewitness reports from missionaries such as William Henry Sheppard dismissed as attempts by Protestants to smear honest Roman Catholic priests.

In May 2006, an investigation led by then New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, concluded with a determination that Universal Music Group bribed radio stations to play songs from Ashlee Simpson, Brian McKnight, Big Tymers, Nick Lachey, Lindsay Lohan and other performers under Universal labels.

They both have an extreme appetite for candy and they are usually bribed with dessert or other presents by other characters, sometimes even by baddies.

Finally, in some sports, elements of the game may be tampered with – the classic example being from horse racing, where a groom or other person with access to the horses before the race may be bribed to over-feed an animal, or even administer a sedative or amphetamine ( known as " horse doping " in order to make a horse faster or slower to respectively increase or reduce a their chances of winning ).

He may sometimes have brought undue pressure to bear on the owners, for it is recorded that an abbot of St Albans bribed him with four valuable books, and that de Bury, who procured certain coveted privileges for the monastery, bought from him thirty-two other books for fifty pieces of silver, far less than their normal price.

In " Spelling Bee ", Big Bob pushes Helga into winning for the sake of the family name, though she intentionally throws the contest when she finds out that her father bribed Arnold, her only other competition, into taking a dive.

Tavernier, writing in the reign of Shah Jahan, observed that widows with children were not allowed in any circumstances to burn and that in other cases, governors did not readily give permission, but could be bribed to do so.

Subsequent revelations that the administration bribed a number of UCR senators for their support of a stalled labor law flexibilization bill in April led to the resignation of Vice President Álvarez in protest on October 6, as well as of Cabinet Chief Rodolfo Terragno and of three other cabinet members, pushing the de la Rúa presidency into its crisis stage.

It began in October 1994 when The Guardian newspaper alleged that London's most successful parliamentary lobbyist, Ian Greer of Ian Greer Associates, had bribed two Conservative Members of Parliament in exchange for asking parliamentary questions, and other tasks, on behalf of the Egyptian owner of Harrods department store, Mohamed Al-Fayed.

When Adams sent three other commissioners to Paris to negotiate, agents of Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ( whom Adams labeled " X, Y and Z " in his report to Congress ) informed the Americans that negotiations could only begin if the United States loaned France $ 12 million and bribed officials of the French government.

In other cases, the families bribed the officers to ensure that their children got a better life as a government officer.

Bru and other French foresters bribed several UDSG deputies to switch their political party to the BDG.

In 1961 Ena was sacked for spreading a rumour that Coronation Street was being demolished, when it turned out to be untrue, but Swindley was forced to re-hire her when a suitable replacement could not be found ( Ena had bribed the other candidates to turn the job down ).

A fact-finding panel at the Attorney-General's Office found that the Democrat Party bribed other parties to boycott the 2006 parliamentary election, which forced the constitutional crisis, and voted to dissolve the party.

It also found that Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai party bribed other parties to contest the election.

The Corleonesi bribed cash-strapped Palermo clans into the fold, subverted members of other clans and secretly recruited new members.

Shaggy and Scooby are bribed with other things as well.

There is some controversy over why other Ogre Tyrants do not try to overthrow Greasus: is it because he has become too powerful ( his magical weapon, the Scepter of the Titans, apparently grants him more than enough magical strength to wield it properly, even though he has become too fat to wield ordinary Ogre weapons ), or is it because he has bribed so many other Tyrants into allegiance with himself?

It was not revealed until much later that two Bundestag members ( Julius Steiner and Leo Wagner, both of the CDU / CSU ) had been bribed by the East German Stasi to vote for Brandt.

It merited recognition for this as early as 1950, when the federal parliament launched an inquiry into Spiegels accusations that bribed members of parliament had promoted Bonn over Frankfurt as the seat of West Germany's government.

It has been alleged that Norris bribed or in some way unduly influenced the voting members of the Football League, in particular the league chairman and owner of Liverpool, John McKenna ; at the League's AGM, McKenna made a speech recommending Arsenal's promotion ahead of Spurs thanks to the former's longer spell in the League ( Arsenal joined in 1893, Spurs in 1908.

Everything went wrong when he published a pamphlet in the form of an address to the people of Devon, accusing certain members of the British government of having been bribed by the French government to conclude the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), and declaring that Chevalier Charles d ' Eon de Beaumont, the French minister plenipotentiary to England, had in his possession documents which would prove the truth of his assertion.

Mexican members of the crew told him that the bar's owner had an infamous reputation and it was rumored that he once killed a woman there, serving very little jail time because he bribed the right people in positions of power.

For centuries, constituencies electing members to the House of Commons did not change to reflect population shifts, and in some places the number of electors became so few that they could be bribed.

" Prior to leaving San Francisco, Jones claimed to have bribed Moscone with sexual favors from female Temple members, including one who was underage ; his son, Jim Jones, Jr., later remembered how Moscone frequented Temple parties " with a cocktail in his hand and doing some ass grabbing.

Torrijos and the PRD were ultimately hampered by the corruption scandals of the previous administration, as well as a scandal in which La Prensa reported that two members of his campaign had been bribed by Mobil to sell a former US military base.

Although they were not among the bribed Parliament members ( or on the company's board ), they were in charge of distributing the bribe money among them.

* In 1919, gamblers bribed several members of the Chicago White Sox to throw the World Series.

Most leftist politicians and several media organs accused Tamayo and Sáez of being bribed into breaking party discipline by prominent members of the PP, following accusations that the hotel rooms they were hiding in had been paid for by businessmen from the construction industry with links to the PP.

Since the merchant-guild members, agricultural colonists, factory mechanics, clergy, and all Jews with secondary education were exempt, and the wealthy bribed their way out of having their children conscripted, fewer potential conscripts were available ; the adopted policy deeply sharpened internal Jewish social tensions.

Many historians hold that the principle of liberum veto was a major cause of the deterioration of the Commonwealth political system — particularly in the 18th century, when foreign powers bribed Sejm members to paralyze its proceedings — and the Commonwealth's eventual downfall.

Mannix was also heavily involved in the controversy surrounding the dismissal of Fr Michael O ' Hickey as Professor of Irish after O ' Hickey publicly attacked those members of the Senate of the National University of Ireland who opposed making Irish a compulsory subject for matriculation and insinuated that the senators ( who included several bishops ) had sinned grievously by so doing and resembled those MPs who were bribed to pass the Act of Union.

This was a response to perceived harm wrought upon Sweden by a half-century of parliamentarism during the country's Age of Liberty, as members of the Swedish parliament then used to be bribed by foreign embassies.

A telling story is that when he was offered a Chancellor's post, he bribed the members of the parliament to grant him " absolution ", and when one of them later opposed him, he asked, curious: " Who's this son of a bitch that I failed to pay off?

The French leader, Gaspard II de Coligny, sieur de Châtillon, a nephew of the Constable of France, set ladders against the fort at 2: 00am but the alarm was sounded by members of the garrison who he believed he had successfully bribed.

Large coalitions were formed, with members being bribed to join them.

When a traffic accident perpetrated by gang members leaves several children dead, a witness, a street performer named Mala ( Jaya Bhaduri ), is bribed by Teja's men to keep quiet.

Before the passage of law that permitted the bank to reincorporate, Wright personally delivered a speech to the House of Representatives in which he harangued the bank and accused them of " corruption and fraud ", and alluded that the bank had bribed members of the General Assembly to pass the bill.

He bribed the nobility members of other States by promising them positions in the army.