He had, he said, already given them enormous bribes.
The French offered Pezza an enormous bribe if he would join them.
Mr. Fong remains a committed Marxist, but his wife is a government official who has been imprisoned for taking an enormous bribe.
Assassins followed her everywhere, and servants were paid enormous bribes to report her every move.
Even though legislators received enormous bribes from outlying worlds, it was less expensive for them than taking care of their excess populations.
He already paid enormous bribes to high-level officials in half the governments of the world.
Also, the nanotech information is so valuable that the conspirators could pay enormous bribes to any troops sent to enforce a theoretical embargo.
Some civilians were able to get out but they have had to pay "enormous bribes" to get out of the town.
In the most genteel terms, they offer him an enormous bribe to stop his inquiries.
I once heard my aunt say he paid an enormous bribe to the border officials.