"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.
To avoid physical violence, the armed forces have to be bought off, at least for a while, with some verbal violence.
The world should know by now that tyrants simply will not be appeased nor will they be bought off with kind words.
After a prolonged legal battle that kept Springsteen out of the studio for two years, Appel was bought off and cast out.
The damage his missile sales have already done cannot be bought off, even if he could be trusted to keep his word.
ANC, but rumours persist that its leader, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, will be bought off with a plum job, Nkomo-style, after the next election.
Still, money has raised Hassanal's stature in the region and bought off most criticism that might come his way in the near future.
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.
IT the boss at Sainsbury's laments his predecessor's lavish spending and the system the Tories bought off America's Republicans failed them in May's poll.
He has temporarily bought off Mr Morgan, his main rival, by giving him responsibility for economic development and Europe in his eight-member cabinet.
Maybe the regime plans to stage a dramatic volte-face, suggesting new-found reasonableness in an attempt to yet again be bought off by the West.
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.
If they could not be bought off, they would be intimidated or in extreme cases closed down by the man no one dared to oppose.
The main opposition leader, Joshua Nkomo, against whose followers the ruling party had fought a bitter war, was bought off with a vice-presidency and a fat salary.
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.
And with a big number of Democrats bought off along with more than a few Republicans, Fannie in particular made sure to buy up academia too with well-compensated reports.
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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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Local human-rights groups have campaigned for him, ignoring their own past claims that as an army officer he personally murdered peasants and then bought off witnesses (charges he denies).
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.
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