suborn

• “The Latin word that gave us "suborn" in the early part of the 16th century is "subornare," which translates literally as "to secretly furnish or equip.”

  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

• “The solution was for the lender and the lender's agents to (1) instruct the borrower to report a certain income or even to fill out the application with false information, (2) suborn an appraiser to provide the necessary inflated market value, and (3) create fraudulent financial information that had at least minimal coherence.”

  The Huffington Post: William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 2: Spurious Arguments Against Holding the Fraudsters Accountable

• “Big Music (aka Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music) and Hollywood (aka Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney) are now close to a year into their campaign to suborn various national governments, the aim being to turn them into copyright enforcement divisions, funded by local taxpayers.”

  Hollywood, labels, muscle UK on file sharing

• “When we suborn violence, either tacitly or overtly, as a mechanism for accomplishing everything from a good dinner to global dominion, we merely sanction its use by others as a tool for achieving whatever aim they may deem desirable.”

  The Huffington Post: Randall Amster: Healing the Wounds: Transforming Our Culture of Violence

• “Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney, are trying to suborn governments around the world in their efforts to gain complete and total control of how ‘product’ is distributed online, and by whom.”

  Europe says No! to French anti-P2P plan

• “I could understand if the "excesses" of the "Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda" were going towards ... an unnecessary war, for example, or into their or their friends own pockets, or to the corporations of large political contributors, or to suborn perjury.”

  Rubio calls Crist's Senate pick 'disappointing'

• “Israel did not consult us on whether it could attack the USS Liberty in the Six-Day War, or suborn Jonathan Pollard to loot our security secrets, or transfer our weapons technology to China.”

  Matthew Yglesias » David Petraeus, Jew-Hater

• “The attempt to set up parallel Islamic institutions and jurisdiction in Britain is a core element of the Islamist attempt to suborn and take over this country.”

  Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...

• “My policy is simple: We, the adepts of Set, The Snake God, should co-operate to suborn the economic system to promote the benefit of ourselves.”

  Onwards, Happy Workers

• “Mary displayed serene confidence in her ability to suborn the allegiance of her officers away from the king.”

  From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558

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