And it makes no sense at all to talk about any of this without the context of extortion and confrontation.
Imagine if, when your iPhone's battery begins its descent into the temperamental target of swear words they all inevitably become, there was a way to fix it without feeling like an extortion victim.
Mr Modi is seen as a rare example of a chief minister without involvement in bribes or extortion, though his BJP cadres presumably have to raise funds somewhere.
Rights organisations accuse the police of profiling Somalis, detaining suspects without trial, denying them representation, extortion, circumventing the courts to deport Somalis and holding the suspects in inhumane conditions.
This is a man who does drugs, extortion and murder without blinking or showing the barest flicker of emotion; someone who will throttle a young prostitute to death before going off to dinner and who will pummel an informer into a bloody pulp for being an informer - even though he has struck his own unholy liaison with the FBI.
After she said he had made lurid comments and initiated phone sex, he countersued, claiming extortion, and then settled without admitting wrongdoing or disclosing terms.
Businessmen, some of whom have moved from the south to invest in Mazar-i-Sharif, say they can do business here without fear of the kidnapping and extortion that plagues the capital.
Obama has been on so many shows that even David Spade thinks he's desperate – the very same David Spade who said yes to Joe Dirt 2 without his participation resulting from a complex extortion plot.
The younger Mr. Persico, who goes by Teddy and sometimes Skinny, is currently under federal indictment on racketeering and extortion charges and is being held without bail.
After a predawn arrest at his home on Long Island, Mr. Gioeli, 55, pleaded not guilty to robbery, murder and extortion charges and was ordered held without bail.
