Sentence examples for extort information from inspiring English sources

According to a Royalist newsletter, while in the Tower she was threatened with the rack in order to extort information.

Dan's gig as a gastronome is threatened by an unscrupulous reporter (who tries to extort information from him via foot massages) and by government investigators seeking to exterminate freeloading "banquet bugs".

Three men, dressed in black uniforms and wearing dark round glasses circulate around the singer, attempting to extort information from her.

Torturing captives to extort information is lamentable too but moreover it is illegal: The Geneva Convention states that "No physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion" may be used in gathering information from prisoners and that prisoners may not be transferred to a state that is not party to the convention.

Roseanne Roseanne Barrr) has extorted information about her older daughter's love interest from her younger daughter, Darlene.

The infected PCs (zombies) are controlled by Zombie Masters which use such computers to extort money, gain information, steal credit card data or rent subnets to persons that want to perform DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service attacks) or send spam mail.

Governments around the world continue to employ rape and mutilation, and to harm family members, including children, in order to extort confessions or information.

Used for everything from extorting money and obtaining information through to the out-and-out sabotage of systems, cyber-crime has become a huge problem in the United States and in other countries around the world.

Someone to extort the extorters.

Because if it wants all the data on your account, it is far simpler to demand or extort a wrapped package of information from Facebook than it is to slowly collect the same data as you use your account.

They then used the information for blackmail, extorting a cool million from their subject.