Sentence examples for elements of blackmail from inspiring English sources

"To our great regret, there are elements of blackmail," Mr. Lavrov said.

The pressure on Russia from the West has "elements of blackmail" ahead of a vote in the Security Council later this week on extending the mission of United Nations observers, Mr. Lavrov said.

There was an element of blackmail in Zimmerman's message.

The element of blackmail (break with me and you'll never get published) wasn't quite explicit but this is a ghastly, artificial scenario.

"There's been an element of rhetorical blackmail, but these concerns are real," a senior administration official said.

"Here he is, on the one hand, trying to make a hundred-million-dollar deal, and, on the other hand, there were elements of the appearance of blackmail — 'If we get in business, he'll back off on Saudi Arabia' — as I have been informed by participants in the meeting".

"This is a question of blackmail and blackmailability, not homosexuality," he added.

Their own form of blackmail is financial.

"They continue their policy of blackmail.

There is an implied threat of blackmail and ruin.

At Philosophical Disquisitions, a consideration of the paradox of blackmail.