Sentence examples for extortion technique from inspiring English sources

In the case of the Cottages, he said, the elderly tenants were "part of an extortion technique; the tenants were used by community groups to stop development".

"Segregation, isolation, separation, cellular, lockdown, Supermax, the hole, Secure Housing Unit, whatever the name, solitary confinement should be banned by States as a punishment or extortion technique," Mendez said.

The practice has been increasingly condemned by human rights authorities across the globe, including the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, who declared in a 2011 speech: "Segregation, isolation, separation, cellular, lockdown, Supermax, the hole, Secure Housing Unit... whatever the name, solitary confinement should be banned by States as a punishment or extortion technique".

In the past, they have resorted to virtually every despicable technique in the terrorists' manual: suicide-bombing, assassination, extortion, the press-ganging of children.

or extortion.

Sounds more like extortion.

Official extortion erodes trust.

Extortion, the team said.

There's no extortion.

The extortion stopped.

My husband calls it extortion".