Sentence examples for extort all from inspiring English sources

Pretending to be heirless and at death's door, he uses the legend of his wealth to extort all sorts of capital from the greedy souls around him.

Their exploits at hacking, conniving, misleading, and extorting (all in the name of justice) were accompanied by cheesy camera tricks and sound effects (jump cuts, clicking shutter noises), and often played out in montages backed by disco-funk-soul hits like "Superfly," "Everyday People," and "Superstition".

Someone to extort the extorters.

In "Mean to Me," a visually sumptuous 12-minute film noir written and directed by David McDermott and Peter McGough, Deyn trades her gamine look for raven-hued finger waves and crimson lips -- all the better to deliver a blow to the head of her lover (the "Law & Order" star Linus Roache), wrestle him into the bathtub, tie him up and extort a sizable check.

Under the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, it is forbidden to extort a confession by torture[ 24].

And some hackers have been accused of trying to extort money from corporations — all under the banner of Anonymous.

Isha hits all the marks, but the extorting guru game isn't anything new.

Critics of the trial are saying that all the concessions to justice were extorted from the small Mississippi community by the national attention which the trial had provoked.

The actor and poet, making her directorial debut with this adaptation of Janet Fitch's 2006 novel, takes no prisoners in delving into the all-encompassing toll immediate loss can extort.

Similarly rugby and football strips are redesigned all the time to accommodate sponsors and extort money from fans.

Triads are also highly active in Dublin where there have been four murders in the past two years, all linked to attempts to extort money from the city's fast-growing Chinese student population.