Sentences with 'bribes'
Example sentences and phrases with the word bribes and other words derived from it.
• « The Popes also came to accept bribes and kickbacks for the appointment of priests and bishops, along with shady schemes involving Church lands. »
• « From 1438 onwards, the rich and powerful Austrian Habsburg family was able to secure the title and make it virtually hereditary because they were always able to offer the highest bribes to the electors. »
• « Francis Bacon was something of a prophet of the movement, not a scientist himself - he was sacked as Lord Chancellor to King James I after taking bribes, and died after catching a cold stuffing a dead chicken as a kind of ill-conceived biological experiment. Despite this, he codified the new methodology and worldview of the Scientific Revolution. »