Sentence examples for a protection fee from inspiring English sources

But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers," Mr Malema alleged.

But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers".

In 2005, the Mafia asked him to pay the pizzo, a protection fee of tens of thousands of euros, for the bakery's original location in Palermo.

Popular resistance to the Mafia increased in the early 21st century as business owners increasingly refused to pay the pizzo, a "protection" fee demanded by local crime organizations.

Organized crime gangs are shaking down Internet betting sites on the eve of the U.S. NFL football's Super Bowl, threatening to unleash a crippling data attack unless they pay a "protection" fee, police and site operators said.

As punishment for his failure to pay a protection fee, he is targeted for assassination by the crime lord Ramirez.

In Mario Puzo's The Godfather, a character named Don Fanucci is known as a ruthless, greedy black hand extortionist who skims a regular "protection" fee from those who operate in his neighborhood.

Banks and credit unions charge about the same for an overdraft protection fee, reported Tribune News Service this week.

Be prepared to pay a monthly overdraft protection fee -- typically $10 to $12 -- which can add up to over $120 per year; that said, it's the lesser of two evils in this case, especially if it means never incurring another insufficient funds penalty.

They had shoved a man into a van and shipped him to a cannery in New Jersey to make pet food of him; they had cut off a little girl's nose because her father hadn't paid them the protection fee; they had tied a middle-aged woman's hands, plugged her mouth, stuffed her into a burlap sack, and then dropped her into the ocean.

State officials said the owners had balked when the Zetas raised the protection fee.