Treating
Treating, in law, is the act of serving food, drink, and other refreshments to influence people for political gain. In various countries, treating is considered a form of corruption, and is illegal as such.
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Famous quotes containing the word treating:
“Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)
“To a first approximation, the intentional strategy consists of treating the object whose behavior you want to predict as a rational agent with beliefs and desires and other mental states exhibiting what Brentano and others call intentionality.”
—Daniel Clement Dennett (b. 1942)
“People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)