Sentence examples for of the extortion from inspiring English sources

More remote and less terrifying threats fall within the province of the extortion and blackmail statutes.

A court order in Britain has prevented publication of the identity of the extortion target.

Mayor Ganim, Mr. Pinto said today, initiated and approved of the extortion scheme.

He had seemed untroubled, his brother said, but after the funeral a mutual friend told him of the extortion call.

That amount was imposed by the Republicans as part of the extortion they demanded to raise the debt ceiling.

Mr. Christie declined to discuss the status of the extortion allegations, saying only, "It's very, very early in an investigation".

Some in the crowd credited Guzman and his gang for keeping the city free of the extortions and kidnappings that plague other parts of Mexico, where rival gangs reign.

Extortion: "the unjust extraction (as by the misuse of authority); the extortion by dishonest officials of fees for performing sworn duty".

Mr Netanyahu's senior aide, Avigdor Lieberman, is accused of abetting the extortion.

"In terms of stopping the extortion or the kidnapping or the fees that they levy, there is little way to get at that income," he added.

Cromwell's raising of revenues from the extortion of Catholic institutions ("stripping the altars", as Eamon Duffy calls it) has made him the most powerful commoner in England.