Sentence examples for trying to blackmail a from inspiring English sources

Are young Tory bullies threatening rivals, even trying to blackmail a minister over sex, really so different from those trying to intimidate Labour MPs into voting against an extension of the bombing on Wednesday night?

Too exhausted from their jobs and their kids to light each other up, they drive into Manhattan, hoping to rekindle their marriage, and wind up at a snooty new restaurant, where they claim the reservation of a no-show couple — a pair of lowlifes who are trying to blackmail a prominent gangster (Ray Liotta).

LARGO, Md .— President Obama mounted a passionate, campaign-style defense of his health care program on Thursday, just days before its main elements take effect, mocking opponents for "crazy" arguments and accusing them of trying to "blackmail a president" to stop the law.

According to reports in the British press, two men have been arrested for allegedly trying to blackmail a "minor" member of the royal family out of £50,000 ($104,310).

A Chinese man has been arrested on suspicion of extortion after he tried to blackmail a businessman with the remains of his late father.

Expanding this theme of rampant greed is another narrative that also begins with a dead man, a "morally shabby" but appealingly human P.I. who tried to blackmail a shady scientist desperate to hold on to his lucrative grant.

The two haplessly try to blackmail a canned, choleric C.I.A. agent (John Malkovich), and they cross paths with a variety of other lost people, including George Clooney's lightweight Lothario, a U.S. marshal who would sleep with a butterfly.

He has defended Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, a Republican who is awaiting trial on a felony invasion-of-privacy charge after prosecutors said he tried to blackmail a former paramour with an illicit photo.

"No Congress before this one has ever, ever, in history been irresponsible enough to threaten default, to threaten an economic shutdown, to suggest America not pay its bills, just to try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with a budget," Mr. Obama said before a friendly audience in suburban Washington.

In her 21st volume of fiction, Dame Muriel, now in her 80's, gleefully pulls her characters' strings in a farce in which two men who claim to be Lord Lucan (the real-life aristocrat who disappeared in 1974 after killing his children's nanny during a botched attempt to kill his wife) try to blackmail a German psychoanalyst who has a bogus identity and criminal past of her own.

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