Sentence examples for extortion and protection from inspiring English sources
Extortion and protection schemes abound.
Extortion and protection rackets flourish alongside drug trafficking.
Extortion and protection rackets are suddenly becoming common.
Operating as a kind of mafia, the militia gangs sell services such as gas to the community at inflated prices, and extract money through extortion and protection rackets.
Felix's aria continues in this droll vein, variations on extortion and protection involving mainly insurance, liquor and the public payroll, the notes soaring until they nearly fly off the page.
Much of the recent coverage of the autodefensas growing uprising in Michoacán has focused on their drug trade, and their extortion and protection rackets.
Also last month, the man in charge of the Finance Ministry's Financial Crimes Unit in the northern city of Salonika, Christos Papachatzis, was among 53 people arrested on charges of extortion and leading a protection racket that lent money at usurious rates.
We found that while Chinese and Russian firms often hope for some of the same things as their counterparts in mature economies as regards alliances, they are also interested in other things not normally associated with alliances: political influence, relief from paying bribes, and protection from extortion or even violence.
If it were, then blackmail, "protection," extortion, and even armed robbery, all of which, in their logical structure, amount to the exchange "Your money or your life," would be legal.
Those who have studied them say that they are useful in bullying opponents of the long-governing, and conservative, Liberal Democratic Party and that many of them are actually members of criminal gangs that use their influence and protection to practice extortion.
But in the midst of the violence that has beset the state of Veracruz, new and creative forms of witchery for protection against extortion and for help finding kidnapped kin have become the leading demands from clients, local practitioners say.
