Sentence examples for extort profit from inspiring English sources

Failing to succeed in the smartphone market, they are resorting to legal measures to extort profit from others' achievements and hinder the pace of innovation.

Besides freedom from forced labor, the business manager said the benefits of making peace with the generals include freedom to travel abroad without paying bribes for passports, to import cars without paying bribes for import licenses and to run businesses without generals' extorting profits.

New Internet banks have made audacious bids for market share by offering loss-making rates on credit cards, savings and mortgages.In March, a government report by Don Cruickshank, now chairman of the London Stock Exchange, savaged the banks for extorting excess profits from their customers of £3 billion-5 billion ($4.5 billion-7.5 billion-7.5 billion

They merely insert themselves, with little economic risk, to extort a small profit inside the legitimate bid and offer range of unarmed investors.

Someone to extort the extorters.

In the Irish Republic, however, the dissidents are now regarded as just another criminal gang, bent on extorting the drug profits of crime bosses in Dublin and other cities.

But rebels can still profit from oil, by extorting money from oil firms.

Mr. Elgindy obtained the information from F.B.I. agents and used it both to extort money from the companies and to profit by selling the companies' stocks short with the hope that they would decline, prosecutors have said.

The NFL represents a collection of billionaires extorting towns into socializing debt and privatizing profit, despite consensus that publicly financed stadiums do not create revenue for local governments.

At the same time, he profited by extorting money from the victims.

Many were blamed for extorting money from their neighborhoods and carrying out kidnappings for profit.