Sentence examples for prevent extortion from inspiring English sources

The commission set maximum garbage-collection rates to prevent extortion, and launched other anti-corruption initiatives.

British officers conceded that despite their efforts to prevent extortion, some of the truckers filling up with free water were selling it for about $68 per gallon.

Sharon L. Young, director of the state Division of Elections, said there was a law barring public employees or officials from soliciting contributions from other public employees, intended to prevent extortion of campaign money under threat of demotion or dismissal.

Wall Street Rattner comes out against a coordinated industrial policy (which, by the way, should include measures to prevent extortion and coercion by giant companies).

"We furthermore expect the transitional government to take action to prevent the extortion, theft, and physical harm of aid workers.

"Mojang's main goal with the EULA rules is to prevent unfair extortion and situations like a player-vs-player (PVP) server charging a few hundred bucks for a diamond armour kit," she says.

Criminal extortion to prevent an attack is coming, if not already here.

A local official watchdog has reported some 80 cases of excessive use of force and hundreds of illegal searches in the past 11 months.The troops have failed to prevent a surge in kidnapping and extortion.

Officials said the arrests, on charges including conspiracy, racketeering, extortion and bribery, grew out of a continuing campaign to prevent the Genovese crime family from corrupting labor practices in terminals in New Jersey and New York City.

But, he said, he had also been forced to spend millions of dollars to prevent the news from becoming public, after being subjected to "a deluge of blackmail and extortion" from people who knew the truth and threatened to reveal it.

Recent extortions have included Domino's in France which refused to pay $40,000 to prevent the release of 650,000 pieces of private customer information.