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Перевод: suborn

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Тезаурус:

1. To safeguard and expand their overseas investments, they used their political influence to suborn the "the public policy, the public purse, and the public force" to the promotion of their private interests.
2. He probably shared Khruschev's contempt for conservationists and the defenders of the national heritage, who stood in the way of progress and tried to suborn Communist officials from their duty to demolish the redundant vestiges of the old order.
3. After Shaftesbury's acquittal it was Warcup's turn to face counter-accusations of conspiracy to suborn witnesses, as well as (he said) being burnt in effigy with the pope, libelled, and assaulted in the streets.
4. But in February 1681 many witnesses began to see more advantage in making themselves acceptable to the government than to the Whigs, and in stating that attempts had been made to suborn them to give evidence.