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El acusado no disponía de ningún recurso y dos de los testigos de cargo estaban sobornados.
The accused had had no right of appeal and two of the prosecution witnesses had been bribed.
No se consideraba creíble la información de que había sobornado a una persona en el aeropuerto al marcharse.
The information on how he bribed a person at the airport at the time of his departure was deemed not to be credible.
La aldea no apeló esta orden ya que aparentemente los demandantes habían sobornado a sus representantes.
The village did not appeal this order as its representatives had apparently been bribed by the claimants.
Entonces ponían en libertad a algunos de ellos, a veces porque les habían sobornado con sumas importantes.
Some detainees were then released, some reportedly because they paid large bribes.
La mayoría de los sobornados eran funcionarios de los tribunales, funcionarios encargados del cumplimiento de la ley y oficiales de policía.
Most of the bribes were paid to court staff, enforcement officers and police.
Al otro lado de la frontera, habían sobornado a oficiales de la República Democrática del Congo;
On the other side of the border, they had bribed the Democratic Republic of the Congo officials;
La corrupción requiere la participación de dos partes, la que soborna y la sobornada.
Corruption requires the participation of two parties, the corruptor (briber) and corruptee (bribee).
Han sobornado a todo el mundo a quien se podía sobornar.
Everyone who must be bribed has been bribed.
verb
—En fin, resumiendo —dijo Jamies—, está pidiéndome que transfiera ilegalmente fondos del imperio al duque para que pueda comprar las armas que ya compró pero perdió por su negligencia, porque la persona a la que ya ha sobornado no tiene los medios para hacerlo.
“So to sum up,” Jamies said, “you wish me to illegally transfer imperial funds to the duke so he may buy the weapons he already bought but lost due to negligence, because the person whom you have already suborned cannot do it herself, and to compensate for executing several crimes against the imperial state, you offer me nebulous, so-called rewards to be determined later, which are not actual money.
Nadie estaba seguro de si los templarios habían sobornado al Vaticano o si la Iglesia, simplemente, había intentado comprar su silencio, pero el caso es que el papa Inocencio II dictó una insólita bula papal por la que se concedía a los caballeros un poder ilimitado y se los declaraba «una ley en sí mismos», un ejército autónomo, independiente de cualquier interferencia de reyes o clérigos, de cualquier forma de poder político o religioso.
Nobody was certain whether the Knights had blackmailed the Vatican or whether the Church simply tried to buy the Knights' silence, but Pope Innocent II immediately issued an unprecedented papal bull that afforded the Knights Templar limitless power and declared them "a law unto themselves"—an autonomous army independent of all interference from kings and prelates, both religious and political.
verb
Por consiguiente, no es de sorprender que existan sentencias escritas que no corresponden a las decisiones de los magistrados y se deben a que la parte que perdió el juicio ha sobornado al escribano.
It is not surprising therefore, to learn of written judgements that are not in conformity with the decisions of magistrates, judgements which resulted from the clerk being suborned by the losing party.
Todas las fundiciones de Roma serán sobornadas para este propósito.
Every foundry in Rome will be suborned for this purpose.
Protesto enérgicamente ante la insinuación de que yo he sobornado a esta testigo.
I object most violently... the suggestion that I suborned this witness.
¿Fue simplemente por razones personales, o fueron, de hecho, sobornados para dar falso testimonio?
Was it simply for personal reasons, or were they in fact suborned to give false evidence?
Esto podía significar que el partido Baas ya estaba siendo sobornado.
That could mean that the Ba'ath Party was already being suborned.
Me temo que ha sobornado a todos esos malditos montaraces.
and I am afraid she has suborned those damned ferals.
Pero si os encuentran aquí, pensarán que eres compinche nuestro, sobornado por nosotros.
But if they find you here, they will think that you are our lad, suborned by us.
Probablemente le habrían sobornado. -Nada de cena. Gracias -respondió Reginald.
He could probably be suborned. “No dinner, thank you,” said Reginald.
—Flavio Vespasiano, has sobornado a mi mayordomo y a mi pájaro;
Flavius Vespasianus, you have suborned both my steward and my singing bird;
¿Recordáis que dijisteis que Boleso tenía que haber sobornado a un hechicero ilícito?
Remember your insistence that Boleso must have suborned an illicit sorcerer?
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