The states buckled under this fiscal blackmail but surprise!—under-age drinking did not disappear.
Since June, Turkey has been living under a "blackmail democracy", something no one has ever experienced before.
Some forms of threat are occasionally singled out for separate statutory treatment under the designation "blackmail".
The ex-Conservative Prime Minister claimed Ed Miliband would be subjected to "a daily dose of political blackmail" under such a deal.
Watch where you put those prepositional phrases; neither the provision of health care nor the millions of Americans are under threat of blackmail.
The North has demanded both economic aid and a nonaggression pact, and the Bush administration has said it will not negotiate under conditions of blackmail.
"It's clear that one country can under no circumstances blackmail the European commission and the euro countries," the paper quoted Schelling as saying.
Their solution was always the same: hold a rigged election under martial law; blackmail Parliament into changing the constitution to order; and, as a reward, restore it.But an election held under martial edicts would be a farce no matter what clothes the general happens to be wearing.
Mr. Boehner even mocked the president on Monday for refusing to negotiate over health reform, as if he actually expected Mr. Obama to join in wrecking a law that will provide health coverage to millions of uninsured Americans under threat of blackmail.
(Brantley) 'The Big Knife' Bobby Cannavale stars in the first (and last?) Broadway revival of Clifford Odets's 1949 drama about a movie star in a moral bind: to knuckle under to studio blackmail and sign his life and artistic aspirations away, or leave behind the corrupt system and risk reprisals.
