The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more 'rested' when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.
In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.
Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.
Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.
It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.