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"extort with" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It means to obtain something through force, threats, or manipulation. Example: The corrupt official was known for extorting money from local businesses with the threat of shutting them down.
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It allows plutocrats to steal companies from shareholders, to jail whistle-blowers, to extort with impunity.
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Both laws were "extorted with a bayonet at our throats and a gun to our chest," said Estela de Carlotto, a director of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a leading human rights group here.
And I won't be extorted with threats of President Trump and his two or three SCOTUS picks.
The indictment states that in the spring Ulbricht "solicited a murder-for-hire" of a Silk Road vendor attempting to extort him with a threat to release the identities of thousands of Silk Road users.
Democrats and Republicans were also happy to demonize so-called "patent trolls," those companies who purchase patent rights solely to extort others, with no intention of innovating themselves.
But I'm pretty sure they'd have an employee arrested if they, say, accessed my data and tried to extort me with it.
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.
Similarly, the smugglers see the immigrant and refugee community as dollar signs, with smugglers charging anywhere from $7,000 to $10,000 per person, and they often further extort those with family members in the U.S.
Baseball's commissioner, Bud Selig, let Huizenga get away with this thinly veiled attempt to extort taxpayer money, with an argument that has since been consigned to the bin of disrepute.
Mr. Ianniello also said he shared kickbacks and extorted money with Local 1181's leaders.
For one, they could raise a ton of money to finance their terrorist operations - to the tune of millions of dollars per year just by selling "crimeware" kits, renting "botnets," and extorting businesses with DoS attacks or "ransomware" (one type of ransomware, called CryptoLocker, is estimated to have earned $30 million for criminals).
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