Sentence examples for through blackmailing from inspiring English sources

There may be few people in Washington or London who really seek a global data empire through blackmailing the world's population; but hoovering intelligence on millions of private individuals extends far beyond the needs of national security, beyond the needs even of normal police work.

As the columnist Hedda Hopper Judy Daviss, in a series of redoubtable hats) says with a shrug, midway through blackmailing Crawford into giving her a bitchy quote, "Well, men built the pedestal, darling not me.

McLellan would have Garbo, through Salka Viertel, blackmailing Dietrich over the marriage: deny you knew Greta or we'll tell the world about Otto.

In return, Paul helps Carla to avenge her various slights through blackmail and intimidation.

In Sir ACD's story, a European royal house is threatened with ruin through blackmail.

Many have been forced to compromise or were co-opted through blackmail or to protect their family.

At a news conference on Tuesday, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, the Ukrainian intelligence chief, said the Russians were detained on Jan . 27"trying to illegally obtain Ukrainian secrets through blackmail and threats".

The intelligence agencies and the Royal Ulster Constabulary proved adept at penetrating the IRA, establishing agents – for money or through blackmail or some other means – in the highest ranks.

Spies use bugs and human agents; one often being used to recruit the other – sometimes through blackmail and sometimes in a search for recruits.

"This is a personalized dictatorship, rather than an institutional one, in which a very corrupt elite has maintained control through blackmail and bribes.

On Thursday, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki responded, "If they or others think that Iraq's decision could be begotten through blackmail, then I think that's an illusion".