Sentence examples for was blackmailed from inspiring English sources

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was blackmailed

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To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.

  • He blackmailed a businesswoman by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.

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A homosexual, he was blackmailed by the Russians into spying.

Many Ukrainians think he was blackmailed, or threatened.Other candidates for the prime ministership are circling.

Perhaps he was blackmailed routinely, had cash on hand for regular payouts.

It was blackmailed into doing so: keeping the program would have meant losing more than $14 million in state funding.

Rendell recently gave advice to a married friend who was blackmailed over just such a sexual matter.

In the past, the west was blackmailed with the possibility of Ukraine's "deepening" friendship with Russia, while Russia was blackmailed with possibility of Ukraine's "deeper" co-operation with Nato and the United States.

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And who was blackmailing him?

I'm being blackmailed.

Are you being blackmailed?

It cannot be blackmailed.

Morse would not be blackmailed.

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