Sentence examples for extorted as from inspiring English sources

The subsequent union with Marie, which evidently made no sense to anyone else in their circle, may have been extorted as recompense.

Doug, himself a cutthroat lawyer, envisages buckets of easy money from bilking the production through litigious threats, and he sets out to extort as much as he can.

Okruashvili's theory is that everyone is trying to extort as much money as possible while they can still get away with it.

Ecuador is using its court system in an attempt to extort as much as $16 billion from Chevron as compensation for environmental damage that was caused mostly by the Ecuador national oil company after Chevron left.

Could it be that the election period presents a perfect opportunity for voters to extort as many concessions as possible?

This week's development comes as criminal investigators are said to be examining allegations that Afghan security firms have been extorting as much as $4 million a week from contractors paid with U.S. tax dollars and then funneling the spoils to warlords and the Taliban, according to a U.S. military document.

In one swoop, Genachowski is poised to break Obama's promise and give the Internet away to big corporations like Comcast, to block and discriminate and extort as they see fit.

That and money he extorted from others, as much as $15,000, may be helping him avoid a nationwide manhunt, the captain added.

Mr. Spahn said the public access promise Mr. Geffen made in 1983 was "extorted" from him as a condition to expand his beach property with maid quarters and other improvements.

It was hurled at me like an insult, like a threat, and wasn't nearly as enjoyable as the time I was extorted by a female stripper.

In America it is not that surplus value is extorted from us so much as that we are spiritually exploited and denied the opportunity to find our true growth.