Sentence examples for was extorted from from inspiring English sources

"About $30 billion was extorted from this state.

"About $30 billion was extorted from this state," Gray Davis, California's governor, said last week.

Mr. Spahn said the public access promise Mr. Geffen made in 1983 was "extorted" from him as a condition to expand his beach property with maid quarters and other improvements.

The fact that it was extorted from victims of the Nazi horrors fills him with disgust, but also costs him the love of his life, the beautiful Jewish girl Sara.

Nigeria estimates that of the $4.3bn, some $2.3bn was taken from the central bank, $1bn was awarded for contracts to front companies, and a further $1bn was extorted from foreign companies, some of them in Britain.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday the organisation that received and published the leaked documents, Wikileaks, said the statement was "extorted from him under the overbearing weight of the United States military justice system".

Critics of the trial are saying that all the concessions to justice were extorted from the small Mississippi community by the national attention which the trial had provoked.

In America it is not that surplus value is extorted from us so much as that we are spiritually exploited and denied the opportunity to find our true growth.

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And let us not forget the grotesque seat licenses our two friendly football teams are extorting from loyal fans for the new stadium in New Jersey.

The amount of money that owners claimed was extorted weekly ranged from ten to thirty dollars per bus.