Sentence examples for the use of extortion from inspiring English sources

Both groups began to utilize kidnappings for ransom as an income generating activity around the late 1970s, along with the use of extortion, drug taxing and trafficking to fund their organization (Beittel 2012).

Even members of the House leadership are talking openly about the uses of extortion.

When the Republicans pointed that metaphorical pistol at the economy, Mr Obama could have made a bigger ruckus about this use of extortion.

"He seeks through the use of systematic extortion to coerce the contribution of millions of dollars to Republicans and to intimidate those inclined to support Democrats".

Unit manager Steven Hay says: "Most of the cases we deal with involve threats and intimidation, and very high interest rates - as a starting point - and they go up in the scale from there, through to the use of violence, extortion and blackmail".

According to an Amnesty International report, those manuals advocated the use of "torture, extortion, kidnapping and execution" of a regime's foes.

In 2010, Brown and thirteen other members of the Black Guerrilla Family were indicted for conducting a racketeering conspiracy inside various Maryland prisons that entailed the use of violence, threats of violence, intimidation, extortion, armed robberies, money laundering, bribery, narcotics trafficking, retaliation against witnesses, and obstruction of justice.

In 1987, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a landowner in Ventura County, James Nollan, who challenged the use of the agreements as little more than extortion by the state.

The case studies, written by investigative journalists from South Africa and Britain, charge that competing interests among those seeking to benefit financially have left preparations for the 2010 World Cup vulnerable to "manipulation through the use of influence, political pressure, bribes, fraud and extortion".

Since then, the Maoists stand accused of killing 800 civilians deemed "enemies of the revolution," kidnapping, extortion, forced conscription and the use of child soldiers.

Copyright infringement was subject to civil and criminal remedies; extortion and other crimes involving the use of words were routinely punished.