Sentence examples for extortionate tactics from inspiring English sources

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(Mr. Obama already said that he would not use the threat of a government shutdown to fight the sequester cuts, rejecting the extortionate tactics Republicans regularly use).

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Apparently, they learned nothing from the debacle of 2011, when they first tried this extortionate tactic.

The list included so many accusations of rules violations, abuses of power and extortionate negotiating tactics that one public-rights advocate, Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Media Education, said the charges "read more like a request for a RICO indictment," a joking reference to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

This is extortionate.

But private renting is extortionate".

Taxes have become extortionate in some countries.

Katherine Ogilive thought graduation was "absolutely extortionate.

There are signs this extortionate practice is about to change.

Perhaps the extortionate fees are not all bad.

Ticket prices, seemingly once so extortionate, are now a bargain.

That's just extortionate – it's guilt money.

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