Sentence examples for to extort the from inspiring English sources

Someone to extort the extorters.

"My clients in no way tried to extort the bishop," Mr. MacLeish said.

Militias, separatists, striking workers and others sought to extort the state by interfering with the production and shipment of oil.

Mr. Balkany was accused, among other things, of trying to use his influence to extort the fund.

The F.B.I. is investigating whether the assistant at Rutgers who first voiced concerns about the abusive behavior of his boss, Mike Rice, tried to extort the university.

As long as too-big-to-fail banks are allowed to exist, they will be in a position to extort the government and the taxpayer in a crisis.

It seems perfectly possible that Waters, aware of the money that the O'Hair family had access to, extorted the funds from them and then killed them.

Since his incarceration, he has only consented to interviews to De Telegraaf, in which he admitted to extorting the Holloway family and said that he received a number of marriage proposals in his cell, including one from a woman who wanted to have his child.

He took an active part in the debates preceding the passage of the 1867 Reform Bill, and helped to extort from the government several useful modifications of the bill, for the prevention of corrupt practices.

At his death the country was exhausted by constant warfare, the monarchy was generally unpopular, and the accession of a new king seemed to offer the opportunity to extort from the crown guarantees against a recurrence of misgovernment.

Here, finally, was an insider acknowledging the enveloping culture of corruption in Russia's police forces — the payoffs large and small, the illegal arrests to extort money, the police chiefs who buy fancy cars and mansions on modest state salaries.