Sentence examples for outright extortion from inspiring English sources

Politics ain't beanbag, but there's a difference between playing hardball and engaging in outright extortion, which is what Mr. McConnell is now doing.

A few flowers and a nice greeting card follow up customer satisfaction survey do not hide the evidence of outright monopolistic extortion.

Before long, the occupational hazards begin to take a toll: "extortion" by cyberbookies, the outright pirating of bets and the siphoning of Brain Trust wagers to rival betting groups.

Mr. Santos said that FARC had named a commander with the nom de guerre Mauricio to oversee the group's gold mining activities, which include outright ownership of some mines and extortion at other mining sites.

Asus negotiated with her but eventually rejected her outright and then charged her with extortion.

This huge amount of money creates a huge amount of incentive to engage in all kinds of scams, diversions, obfuscations, extortions and demands as well as outright paying for certain members of Congress to obstruct efforts to do something about this.

That means that even if outright attacks aren't increasing, there's a growing threat of extortion, says Paller.

There's no extortion.

Official extortion erodes trust.

Extortion, the team said.

Sounds more like extortion.