Sentence examples for and try to extort from inspiring English sources

As a former Treasury Secretary, Geithner can be direct: "They... strap a financial bomb to their chests and try to extort a ransom in exchange for agreeing not to blow up the economy".

They're intimidating us, harassing us and trying to extort us.

He was convicted of six bomb attacks and trying to extort money from department stores during the late Eighties.

A jury in Superior Court convicted Mr. Perez last week of receiving $40,000 in home improvements as a bribe from a contractor and trying to extort $100,000 from a developer for a political ally.

They kept mother and daughter apart for a day – with Charlotte in severe pain after the rape – and tried to extort money from Felicia, a subsistence farmer who had nothing.

The contractor, who Cianci suspected was having an affair with his estranged wife, later told prosecutors that with a city police officer in attendance, the mayor of Providence assaulted him and tried to extort $500,000 from him.

But I'm pretty sure they'd have an employee arrested if they, say, accessed my data and tried to extort me with it.

In it, a mustachioed Murray stomps around and tries to extort money from Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone.

Chow tells Ip that a highway robbery gang led by Jin Shanzhao is harassing his workers and trying to extort money from them.

Migrants are preyed upon by criminal gangs and corrupt officials, who try to extort them for cash or sex.

There is bad as in they try to extort money from you and bad as in the kids you get have been poorly treated.