The plan typically turns half a company's shares over to its workers and managers - in an attempt to buy their allegiance.

This was enough to buy the governor's allegiance, who was fully aware of their true identity and reportedly even allowed one to marry his daughter.

Labour threw billions at public sector workers in an attempt to buy their allegiance.

We confounded him because he couldn't buy our allegiance with the promise of exclusive stories, as he did with reporters and columnists from other newspapers.

We armed Iraq in a futile attempt to buy a military dictator's allegiance and went in, guns blazing, to rescue Kuwait.

The ROC responded by accusing the PRC of "buying" Senegal's allegiance by pledging US$600 million in foreign aid.

He then would try to buy their allegiance by offering the dissenters Government sinecures.

Having been out-tricked, Rhodes tries to buy Krüger's allegiance.

This followed a scandal due to allegations that Taiwan's Foreign Minister James Huang had attempted to buy Papua New Guinea's diplomatic allegiance.

Consequently, Taiwan severed its relations with Nauru, and accused the PRC of having bought Nauru's allegiance with a financial aid gift of over € 90,000,000.