"They're not tchotchkes to be bought off of a shelf, " sniffs an academy spokesman.
It feels a bit like we've been bought off, kind of like we've been given no option.
Otherwise, each country can veto any item from which it loses money, and has to be bought off.
But Mr Mobutu bought off some opposition parties and created scores of new ones which were loyal to him.
Big motor homes require more engineering-intense parts like wrap-around windshields and driver cockpits that can't be bought off the shelf.
After a prolonged legal battle that kept Springsteen out of the studio for two years, Appel was bought off and cast out.
In 2004 Tony Blair bought off angry unions by accepting a list of their demands in a deal known as the Warwick agreement.
Some close to her had thought she might be bought off on this occasion, perhaps with more public funds going to her state.
He has temporarily bought off Mr Morgan, his main rival, by giving him responsibility for economic development and Europe in his eight-member cabinet.
Nothing can excuse such an action, and shareholders will not be bought off with a dividend of our own money while value is destroyed.
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Dr Dykes added there are "significant risks" to any drug misuse, especially when it involved drugs bought off the streets or from unregulated sources.
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Connolly clothes were not the sort you bought off the peg, but like much haute couture they had an influence on the broader market.
"They might say they were legitimate businessmen, but they would bribe people, " Shur said, recalling the case of an engineer who bought off a mayor.
He never bought off on the stuff that you know came to be the series of excuses for the behavior, the rationale for non-U.S. action in certain situations.
Algerians may have become depoliticised, as Berbers and Islamists have been bought off with minor concessions and as public spending, paid for by oil and gas profits, has soared.
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Even those like a former prime minister, Nguza Karl I Bond, who had fled into exile where he denounced Mr Mobutu, could be bought off, brought back and reinstated.
Instead, the House passed a bill that failed to cut subsidies significantly and bought off potential opposition from urban Democrats with spending on a range of social and environmental programmes.
"What we're putting in place is a structure where everybody is being bought off to participate, " says Daphne Wysham, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.
Unlike traditional radiocarbon dating, which can be bought off the shelf, Dr Bayliss reckons it takes between three and four years to train a graduate researcher to use the new technique properly.
Even the much-publicized police raids in recent years on sokaiya (racketeers who threaten to disrupt shareholder meetings if not bought off) have netted only a few, small, independent operators not linked to the big gangs.
Just as Mr Becker proposes that a worker would be able to buy his loan off his present employer if he decided to change jobs, the bond in the Caribbean could also be bought off.
Although teachers may (just about) have been bought off, their pay offer could backfire on the government by causing anger in other parts of the public sector, where disputes over last year's pay settlements are turning into running battles.
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But he warned that some MPs believed that support for the current system among peers "is motivated purely by self-interest and that it will somehow melt away if we can be bought off by some vague offer of grandfather rights for existing members".
But whereas the Texan economy diversified into high-tech, Louisiana turned to gambling, with disastrous results: politicians were bought off by companies looking for licences for land and riverboat casinos, and the state became split between the pro-gambling populism of Mr Edwards and the anti-gambling sentiments of the good government crowd, most of them Republicans.
Whether it is avarai uttakka - local beans cooked with potato, tomato, onions, garlic and tempered with mustard seeds, or sandagai - roasted tomato sauteed with small onion, garlic and coconut ground to a fine paste - the "masala made carefully after dry-roasting 17 spices and not bought off the shops" is the key, Indira says.
Several companies gave them contractor or decorator discounts, or lower prices if they bought items off the floor.
The real estate market took a huge blow three years ago and many construction projects just stalled out, leaving people who had bought homes off-plan and pre-construction with nothing.
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