11.   Nearly every imaginable ploy has been used to sway judges during the slam-dunk competition over the years.

12.   Now the French official is saying a French judge was indeed swayed.

13.   The admission by a French Olympic official that a French judge had been swayed in her voting constitutes one of the great scandals in Olympic history.

14.   When judges can be swayed, a sport is in danger of turning into a spectacle.

15.   Whether a combination of contrition and compensation would sway a Japanese judge in this matter is open to question.

16.   Whoever caused the judge to be swayed can be rooted out soon enough.

17.   Cuomo said they hope to sway the judge into granting more lenient sentences.

18.   Cuomo said they hope to sway the judge to grant more lenient sentences.

19.   Duchesnay, who runs a skating school and judges professional competitions, said judges are swayed by offers of free trips by national skating federations.

20.   If the judge were not swayed, the next step would be to try to raise doubts about the tape in the minds of jurors.