11.   Analysts said the outcome of the election is even less clear after the police charged senior government and opposition politicians with taking bribes.

12.   And after that, Jones said, they were off, taking bribes from as many as two dozen other people.

13.   An earlier wave of investigations in Italy had exposed systematic corruption among high-level politicians who took bribes and received undeclared donations to bankroll their party machines.

14.   And Gen. Bantu Holomisa, a deputy Cabinet minister, was dismissed shortly after he accused another party official of taking a bribe years ago.

15.   And William Butler, a former National Westminster Bank official, said he had taken bribes from Revere.

16.   Anger was also vented at national bureaucrats being wined and dined by local governments seeking favors, as well as at various high-ranking officials taking bribes.

17.   Any candidate who was proved to have taken bribes or enriched himself from his political activities would probably have to count himself out of the running.

18.   As he left the party, Cordero himself was arrested for allegedly taking bribes from traffickers.

19.   As living conditions deteriorated, taking bribes was a way to survive.

20.   Bank executives also took bribes from Hanbo, according to prosecutors, because they thought their supervisors in the government would protect them.