Sentence examples for as a blackmail from inspiring English sources
In other words, serving as a blackmail.
That call, LeMond said, was followed by what he characterized as a blackmail threat from Landis's business manager, Will Geoghegan, which came shortly before LeMond testified.
"We routinely blocked things - ignoring the Whitehall rules and refusing to submit things to his cabinet committee in order to avoid him using his veto as a blackmail weapon.
He also has powerful sympathisers in Europe, including Germany's Angela Merkel, but they seldom become useful allies because Britain is seen as a blackmailing zealot.The other priority should be educating Britons about what exactly a British exit would really involve.
Powerscourt issued a statement on behalf of BSGR complaining that the pair had been "illegally detained" by what it described as an "illegitimate government", and that BSGR had also been targeted as part of a blackmail plot.
Andy Dietz was on a Christian missionary trip to Budapest when he was kidnapped by members of the Hungarian mafia as part of a blackmail plot.
In the meantime, the Teale boys had spent almost as long in prison, for a blackmail charge they deny to this day.
The inquiry also turned up an anonymous letter received by the Metropolitan police in 1998, which it said was "never properly investigated", despite suggesting that Savile changed his telephone number as a result of a blackmail attempt.
The children were used as a psychological blackmail tool to stop hunger strikes among prisoners as well.
Originally shot as a silent, Blackmail was restaged to include dialogue sequences, along with a score and sound effects, before its premiere.
