Sentence examples for forms of blackmail from inspiring English sources

Previously the world had run on trust, bribery, and subtle forms of blackmail.

"And like other forms of blackmail, they were unlawful regardless of whether Hanover was engaged in fraudulent market manipulation of its own".

Their own form of blackmail is financial.

The problem is that a negotiate-then-validate strategy is just a prettified form of blackmail.

This seems to me like a not so subtle form of blackmail.

He does this most often by attacking his own body as a form of blackmail.

Many of them are disenchanted with an EU containment strategy that they feel resembles a form of blackmail.

"It's a form of blackmail when you say to someone: 'Pay or you can't compete'," said Houlette.

Nine out of ten class actions never reach the courts".We regard this as a form of blackmail," says Carlos Almaraz of BusinessEurope, a lobbying group for employers.

He added: "Ronnie is quite right that it is a form of blackmail, and I put my hands up and plead guilty".

This could provide China with the chance for a new form of blackmail over Taiwan.Against that, such skulduggery would lose China the goodwill it has bought this week.