Sentence examples for extort it from inspiring English sources

But the job of the poet is to make the reader want to care — to awaken his sympathy, not extort it.

** But the job of the poet is to make the reader want to care — to awaken his sympathy, not extort it.

If he was "extorted," it was not only unnecessary but inappropriate and unfair to future Columbia Law students for the professor to threaten not to refer clerks to him in the future if he did not hire Ginsburg.

Why? Who knows, it's almost as if the authorities there are trying to bolthole their cash away by extorting it from civilians... Despondent, Hoffman looks into the tea leaves swimming at the bottom of his China cup and says: "I'm in a dilemma now.

"If a nation is not strong, the world's extortionists will extort from it, insult it and if they can, they will trample on it," Khamenei said in March, in his annual speech for the Persian New Year, Nowruz.

A Communist insurgency has been less active in recent weeks, although it continues to extort what it describes as "tax payments" from owners of a few rural businesses.

"A whole lot of shady types trying to whitewash their money are investing in the industry or trying to extort money from it," Professor Kazmi said.

Many Somali pirates have used cruel and sadistic methods to extort ransom payments, it says.

But I'm pretty sure they'd have an employee arrested if they, say, accessed my data and tried to extort me with it.

Will Chevron accuse the environmental firm of being part of a conspiracy to extort money from it?

The information leaked from the Sony hack would be far more valuable if cyber-criminals kept it secret, and used it to extort money or other data from the company.