Sentence examples for get extorted from inspiring English sources

Instead, companies can find themselves getting extorted in foreign lands, only to get extorted again by Washington.

Rape-os do get extorted, though.

Think of it as a "buying the new couch on interest-free" model, but instead of a couch you're getting extorted.

I enjoy binge drinking and getting extorted by gangsters, and I hate skateboarders, longboarders, hippies, fashion, music, and 'hipsters,' purely because it is trendy to do so.

They have extorted, demanded protection monies, raped, pillaged and murdered.

The first was about a credit union in Leith, Edinburgh – set up by the Reverend Ian May – that allows people to get loans without being extorted.

Shabab fighters have also extorted access fees from some aid groups, Somali elders say, often getting tens of thousands of dollars to allow humanitarian aid to be distributed in their zones.

But with no limit on what a single corporation (or union, to be fair) can spend on any particular race, the problem may get far worse, and extorting votes in such a fashion may become the new norm.

I know hundreds of people who have been extorted.

This makes such services easier to get at, prevents officials from extorting bribes and provides an income for the kiosk operator, "so there is a revenue-generating model," she says.

It may also be that the missing men were heading to the United States and that the gangs took them off the bus to extort payment to get them across the border.