Unemployment is high, and not even burgeoning oil revenue is enough to buy off the populace.
The government may be able to buy off resistance to the Jenkins proposals with new patronage.
Both resorted to higher public spending and debt as an easy option to buy off bolshy voters.
Building coalitions is harder in Mexico, where congressmen are wedded to their parties and hard to buy off.
"That's the money we buy off the Congressmen with, " cracked John Alversa, 72, a retired mailman from Flushing, N.
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It would also put an end to the plans to buy off Mr Kim's nuclear ambitions with nuclear reactors.
One way is to buy off steel companies and unions with economic goodies.
Or, in my freaky Ron Paul moments, I wonder if perhaps the CIA is minting money to buy off Iraqi insurgents.
Arbitrary land laws allow local governments to cheat farmers, by underpaying them for the agricultural plots they buy off them for development.
Agree that North Korea's covert nuclear-weapons program nullifies the Clinton-designed "Agreed Framework" to buy off Pyongyang with billions in aid and nuclear technology.
But it is all rather reminiscent of Ethelred the Unready, an 11th-century king of England who paid Danegeld to buy off Viking invaders.
We wanted to enter the marketplace in a hurry, and it was quicker to buy off the shelf than for us to make it.
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But, I also believe that we've got to be very careful, not to buy off and endorse regimes like this, just because they'll provide intelligence.
The Saudi royal family has sought to literally buy off its opponents by showering its subjects with billions of dollars in new subsidies and payoffs.
Prescription drug manufacturers, fearing the arrival of cheaper generics and knowing or worrying that their patents alone won't keep out competitors, try to buy off the competition instead.
And what happens when you buy off seven Republican senators with a package of goodies under the guise of storm relief supposedly meant to benefit two blue states?
Instead of jacking up lending rates, Tsang used the reserves both to buy off hedge funds dumping Hong Kong dollars and to purchase Hang Seng stocks, lifting the index.
The uninspired score by Kim's countryman Mowg doesn't lift the so-so climactic shoot-out any, but the movie's tongue in cheek humor will buy off most of the target audience.
Indeed, bad behaviour has often brought North Korea the best rewards, as outsiders, including America, have sought to buy off what they fear might be worse behaviour to come.
Working on the assumption that Arab objections to Zionism are not a matter of principle, Western statesmen have, over many years, tried to buy off these objections through territorial concessions.
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But opposition MPs refused the secret ballot, fearing that such a procedure would allow the MMD to buy off individual votes, safe in the knowledge that identities would remain anonymous.
This was tiresome and expensive, so around the time the frontier was demarcated in 1893, the strategy changed, and the British began a concerted effort to buy off tribal elders, or maliks.
Because he feels that from this literature, the jihadis can better learn how to buy off tribal leaders, which has been a big problem for them, both in Afghanistan and prior to that in Syria.
"Work on the banana genome will be concentrated on finding ways to improve the varieties on which Africans depend for their survival, rather than the one you and I buy off supermarket shelves, " he said.
The French responded with the usual mixture of bribes and terror: when an attempt to buy off the aristocratic class failed, they were sure that just getting tough enough one last time would do the trick.
Reward points, discounts, free shipping and gifts--it's all there for the taking, as the big players in the hypercompetitive retail industry fight to outdo each other to buy off the loyalty of customers blessed with more choices than ever.
"Since 1994, billions of dollars in economic and energy assistance have flowed into the coffers of Pyongyang to buy off their nuclear-weapons program, " Under Secretary of State John Bolton, responsible for US arms control and nonproliferation policies, said last month in Seoul.
In Heller's world, new cures for Alzheimer's remain in the lab, films flounder unreleased and even hip-hop albums go unrecorded because it's simply too hard to buy off all the owners who are in a blocking position with their pesky property rights.
Hafidz requested that both parties be disbanded for engaging in money politics, but the election law says that can be done only if parties break campaign finance limits or turn a profit - not if they misuse funds or buy off voters.
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