Sentence examples for extorted into from inspiring English sources

She also has clients who are being extorted into providing sex or money because someone has graphic pictures of them and is threatening to send the images to employers or parents or siblings.

And it's only happening now because Obama refused to be extorted into accepting a GOP-authored plan, and legitimizing the kind of brinkmanship that has defined the GOP's House majority since 2011.

I came off a shift a few days before Christmas, and it had been a hard shift we'd found some prison hooch, and I'd discovered a man was being extorted into manipulating his own family members to get them to send money to other prisoners.

Instead, companies can find themselves getting extorted in foreign lands, only to get extorted again by Washington.

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.

Or, since Charlene extorts Peter into letting her live with him while he works on her case, it's "Cribsitter" instead of "Housesitter".

The owners, Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, had angrily decried the charges as an attempt to extort them into paying a giant settlement, one that might have forced them to sell the Mets, one of baseball's most valuable franchises.

In response, Dr Luke and his lawyers filed a lawsuit against Kesha, claiming her allegations were defamation and an "attempt to extort Gottwald into releasing Kesha from her exclusive recording agreement with Dr Luke".

Blagojevich is accused of being on a frenzied spree to extort people into contributing to his campaign fund before a more stringent law governing such contributions went into effect.

Based on experiences by many families across our country, I believe that law enforcement will use this law as a tool not to curb child abuse but to extort parents into cooperating with them and to extracting more guilty pleas, as they have when they've taken children away from loving, responsible parents who also happen to be legitimate medical marijuana patients.

After he is unexpectedly acquitted, the investigation reveals that he had hired a sleazy jury consultant to not only identify those jurors who would most likely sway the rest of the jury's deliberations, so as to bribe and extort them into pushing for acquittal, but also train one of his henchmen to pose as the perfect "prosecutor's juror" and get placed on the jury.