Sentence examples for extortion for from inspiring English sources

People sought "public positions because they could engage in extortion for small services rendered," she said.

The Senate measure authorizes more anticorruption prosecutors and a clearer definition of what constitutes bribery and extortion for public officials.

Let's assume that before the Legislature next caves in to corporate extortion for tax breaks, it does better due diligence than it did with Sears Holdings.

The officer, Michael Daragjati, also pleaded guilty to extortion for threatening and injuring a man he believed had stolen a snow plow from him.

A former state senator was convicted of extortion for taking payoffs from a fake company set up by the F.B.I. to catch corrupt lawmakers.

Rick Harcrow, a union steward at the prison, blamed the recent heat and "gang activity for control over drugs and extortion" for the incident.

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.

Last week, Trump tweeted, "The U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years.

The company had ignored an e-mailed extortion demand for two hundred thousand dollars, and it was under attack.

Trump responded by tweeting, "The U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years.

Like other contemporary laws, it was so vaguely worded that it encouraged corruption and extortion (fines for "homosexual propaganda" are backbreaking) and made selective enforcement inevitable.