Sentence examples for view to extort from inspiring English sources
"They are done with a view to extort and harass".
1793), an indictment for sending anonymous and threatening letters to a foreign minister with a view to extort money, Justice James Wilson argued that the circuit court could be given concurrent jurisdiction; Justice James Iredell argued that it could not; Judge Richard Peters, of the District of Pennsylvania, sided with Wilson, and the case continued.
Someone to extort the extorters.
Our research found that these individuals frequently take advantage of sex workers' vulnerable position and the illegality of sex work to extort money or sex.
My point of view is that austerity is an excuse to disempower people and put in place power systems to extort money from people.
From my point of view a thief is someone who steals the money without the confrontational aspect, whereas a gangster is using the threat of violence to extort money from people directly".
A handful of online commenters took a contrary view, claiming that the alleged assault may have to be a setup to ensnare the drunk foreign man, possibly to extort him.
The gang would try to extort me.
"She wanted to extort money from me.
The revised indictment adds accusations of trying to extort executives.
Would the donor try to extort money later?
