Sentence examples for extort funds from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, European countries regularly sent warships to Haiti to extort funds from the government.America's imperialism was even more direct.

Traditionally, Morton has been known as the inventor of "Morton's Fork," a sophistical dilemma imposed on both rich and poor by Henry's tax commissioners in order to extort funds for the crown.

A ransomware attack that affected at least 2,000 individuals and organisations worldwide on Tuesday appears to have been deliberately engineered to damage IT systems rather than extort funds, according to security researchers.

In January 2001 San Francisco joined that suit, led by the city's "affirmative litigation" department, a four-lawyer team whose job is to prowl for industries from which to extort funds with novel legal theories.

Has anybody seen how Russia regularly tries to strangle, and then extort funds from, Europe with its natural gas monopoly?

One of the main ways that gangs extort funds is by charging a toll; it is one of their primary sources of income — that, and drug dealing.

But Colombians note that Mr Chávez often describes as "terrorists" his own political opponents.Officials from both countries say that the guerrillas use Venezuela for supplies and as a transport corridor, as well as extorting funds from its ranchers.

ISIL obtains hundreds of millions of dollars from the black market sales of oil, from extorting funds from the citizens of the territories that it occupies, from the foreign sales of stolen antiquities, and from other crimes.

These low-IQ Republican scare-mongers don't know, or don't care that North Korea has no long-ranged nuclear capability, or developed nukes for defense against possible US nuclear attack -- and as a way of extorting funds from the US, Japan and South Korea.

There are reports of underground groups extorting funds intended for HIV prevention and care in Manipur [ 18] and even conducting executions of IDUs [ 19].

Mr. Balkany was accused, among other things, of trying to use his influence to extort the fund.