Sentence examples for extort from the from inspiring English sources
He took an active part in the debates preceding the passage of the 1867 Reform Bill, and helped to extort from the government several useful modifications of the bill, for the prevention of corrupt practices.
At his death the country was exhausted by constant warfare, the monarchy was generally unpopular, and the accession of a new king seemed to offer the opportunity to extort from the crown guarantees against a recurrence of misgovernment.
In a sport totally dominated by African-Americans and other minority groups, it is not only callous but self-defeating for a few hundred millionaires and multimillionaires (both players and pencil-pushers) to seek to extort from the taxpayers yet another subsidy to slake their ubiquitous greed.
"The menace of the abyss will be subdued," he writes, "when I extort from you the most lovely cries / and quivering whispered pleas".
Sometimes Zapata assembled thousands of men; he paid them by imposing taxes on the provincial cities and extorting from the rich.
The sultan and his nobles depended in the 13th century largely on tribute extorted from the subjugated local potentates and on plunder from the unpacified areas.
It also carried out an investigation on the forced loans Nazi occupiers extorted from the Greek central bank from 1941 onwards.
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.
No longer, says Ricardo Pascoe, head of one of the capital's 16 administrative districts, but he sees vestiges of the system at lower levels, fed by bribes extorted from the citizenry.
Mr. Bustamante conceded today that his suit "does not solve the energy crisis," but said it was intended to halt illegal behavior and return money "extorted" from the state.
But introduce the subject of "revolutionary taxes" extorted from the locals, and his eyes will suddenly light up.In these circumstances, the NDF leaders' only hope of salvaging any measure of political influence from their wreck of a revolution is by making peace with the government.
