Sentence examples for and blackmail in a from inspiring English sources

Earlier this summer, Christian and his brother Nick Candy were accused of tax evasion and blackmail in a bruising £130m high court battle with a former business associate.

Bezos accuses the publisher of the National Enquirer of "extortion and blackmail" in a post alleging it threatened to publish revealing personal photos unless the Amazon chief executive publicly affirmed the paper's reporting was not politically motivated.

Ed Nelson was one of only two Peyton's Place cast members to appear in the entire run of American television's first peak-time soap opera, which featured murder, divorce, wife-beating, teenage pregnancy, rape and blackmail in a fictional New England coastal town and attracted up to 60 million viewers in the programme's home country alone.

"If the point is to add pressure and blackmail in the negotiations, it is inadmissible," Laurence Parisot, president of the Medef employers' lobby, told RTL television on Thursday.

The work also shows her dealing in ideas about surveillance, eavesdropping and blackmail; in arch social commentary; and in the idea of performance itself – especially how femininity is performed by its various women characters.

I hate the way he's posing as a champion of truth and justice whilst hiding in the shadows and resorting to blackmail in a drawn-out attempt to avoid having to answer criminal charges in a publicly-accessible court of law.

Not only was the F.B.I. spying on these groups, they were also running all sorts of "dirty tricks" operations, including sending death threats and blackmail warnings in an effort to neutralize any group J. Edgar Hoover didn't approve of.

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The probe humiliated the family by uncovering that Charlie had successfully set up his brother-in-law with a prostitute, filmed their encounter, and used the footage as blackmail in a failed attempt to prevent him from cooperating with the feds.

She also likened Russia's possession of the notes from the rendezvous to "blackmail in a bottle".

Hayward's predecessor at BP, ousted in a sex-and-blackmail scandal in 2007, had placed cost-cutting (and ever more obscene profits) over safety, culminating in the BP Texas City refinery explosion that killed 15 and injured 170 in 2005.