Sentence examples for extortions of the from inspiring English sources

Rashīd ad-Dīn, Ghāzān's great minister, was perhaps the real author of the fiscal reforms that go under his master's name and that were designed to protect the sedentary population from the extortions of the nomad aristocracy.

"Isis is trying to get more hard cash through extortion of the local population," Stringer said.

Mansour and others monitoring the increasingly lucrative smuggling business fear that it may morph, as did the smuggling routes in Sinai in 2009, into trafficking and extortion of the most vulnerable migrants.

Losing the Rio Doce is another episode in a long history of land encroachment and extortion of the Krenak people.

On May 6 Dunmore issued a proclamation charging Henry with extortion of the £330, and forbidding the citizenry to assist Henry in any way.

Zappa saw their activities as on a path towards censorship, and called their proposal for voluntary labelling of records with explicit content "extortion" of the music industry.

Urgent action should be taken to better report abuses by military and police, who are not held accountable for rampant extortion of the under-documented and undocumented.

In the Bloods, older guys become a "big homey" and they either revel in their leadership position or they basically commit friendly extortion of the younger, weaker dudes.

Greece may also gamble on the Eurozone's fear of contagion putting the art of extortion on the table.

At first Nero hated signing death sentences, and the extortions of Roman tax collectors upon the populace led him in 58 to unrealistically suggest that the customs dues should be abolished.

The extortions of one spiteful internet gang, however, shouldn't detract from the very important message in Watson's speech: men should be feminists too.