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  • noun Plural form of inducement.

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Examples

  • Damfacrats offers the plight of Daniel Montgomery, the Bush appointee to the post of Executive Director of the Air Transportation Stabilization Board, who's come under fire for accepting various inducements from the airlines he's supposed to be overseeing loans for.

    From the "Don't Panic" department... 2004

  • Damfacrats offers the plight of Daniel Montgomery, the Bush appointee to the post of Executive Director of the Air Transportation Stabilization Board, who's come under fire for accepting various inducements from the airlines he's supposed to be overseeing loans for.

    Archive 2004-03-01 2004

  • Damfacrats offers the plight of Daniel Montgomery, the Bush appointee to the post of Executive Director of the Air Transportation Stabilization Board, who's come under fire for accepting various inducements from the airlines he's supposed to be overseeing loans for.

    Tet II - Another ring of Hell 2004

  • Damfacrats offers the plight of Daniel Montgomery, the Bush appointee to the post of Executive Director of the Air Transportation Stabilization Board, who's come under fire for accepting various inducements from the airlines he's supposed to be overseeing loans for.

    Scandals? I've got yer scandals right here... 2004

  • We have a toy army, which by repeated skeleton camps and 50cents-a-day inducements, is becoming an imaginary army.

    The Fatuous Insolence of the Canadians 1904

  • Apparently, bin Laden accuses Mr Sharif of taking inducements from the Americans in Nairobi.

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  • Nothing short of congressional bribes, these so-called inducements range from an exemption from excise tax for wooden arrows designed for use by children and tax write-offs for motorsports racing track facility owners to tax rebates on rum imported from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, as well as imported wool.

    John W. Whitehead: Is it Time for a Rebellion? 2008

  • Anxious to keep Netanyahu at the table, the US has dangled before him a string of "inducements", ranging from the right to purchase F35 fighter planes? which no one else in the world has? to tolerance of a continued Israeli military presence along the Jordan valley, perhaps for up to 30 years after any peace deal, thereby boxing in a future Palestinian state on both its eastern and western borders.

    Credit to Obama for sticking with the Middle East. But it's gone very wrong Jonathan Freedland in Washington 2010

  • Chinese state-owned companies tend not to invest in exploration but prefer to offer "inducements," he said.

    Africa's Increasing Importance in Worldwide Energy Security Affairs 2009

  • During the interview, Mihalik had interjected and led him to admit to certain words which were in fact not used, to say that the donations were "inducements" to make a decision on Roodefontein when they were not, and that he had been pressured, presumably by

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

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