Sentence examples for theft extortion from inspiring English sources

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He said Mr. Nouri had been accused of involvement in "theft, extortion, kidnapping and murder".

One root of the problem is police corruption, from soliciting bribes to theft, extortion and murder.

Their criminal enterprises include smuggling immigrants, assault, auto theft, extortion, kidnapping and killing for hire, F.B.I. officials say.

Malory himself was apparently more than a bit of a rogue, accused, according to court records, of "rape, ambush, intent to kill, theft, extortion and gang violence".

One has the right to do whatever one chooses with whatever one legitimately owns, as long as one does not harm others in specified ways i.e., by coercion, force, violence, fraud, theft, extortion, or physical damage to another's property.

Another crime that sums up a whole world: the geo-political crime of the Cold War, necessitating (for some justifying) all kinds of killing, theft, extortion and – le Carré's speciality – acts of treachery.

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As Michael Walzer explains, we regulate theft and extortion on individual levels but there are forms of market behavior which fall under extortion or theft (such as the ability of big business to unfairly influence the price of the goods they sell) which are not regulated or not regulated well enough.

Murder, theft, arson, extortion, gambling, loan-sharking, liquor, drugs, nightclubs — the Westies did it all.

Smaller children were at the mercy of older ones and violence, theft and extortion were common.

Bollaert was charged with 31 felony counts of conspiracy, identity theft and extortion.

Last week a man who ran a "revenge porn" site was convicted of identity theft and extortion in California.

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