Sample Sentences forextortion (auto-selected)
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Dishonest officials undermine faith in government through extortion of fees for performing their sworn duty.extortion = obtaining something by threat (in this case, refusing to do their duty without payment -- such as not granting a license needed to do business)
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In the first place, because the confessions that they had made were obviously extorted and untrue. (source)extorted = obtained by threat
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"The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis," his father said.† (source)
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Hall carped that the Americans were "violating the spirit of the hills" and practicing a shameful form of alpine extortion, but Jim Frush, the unsentimental attorney who was the leader of the American group, remained unmoved.† (source)
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I fished the emergency money Dad had given me from my pocket, figuring that a little extortion was a small price to pay to find the woman I'd crossed the Atlantic to meet.† (source)
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Sometimes he listened with dignified interest to details of her businesses, nodding approval at her sagacity, and at other times he called her somewhat dubious tradings scavenging, highway robbery and extortion.† (source)
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"Thank you: I shall do: I have no broken bones, — only a sprain;" and again he stood up and tried his foot, but the result extorted an involuntary "Ugh!"† (source)
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This guy who runs a criminal enterprise in narcotics, extortion, what else.† (source)
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He could always extort a day or two in class from them with the free weekly pizza.† (source)
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In the years since Welty's death, Hobart and Blackwell had evidently acquired a reputation as an easy mark for thieves; and the thrill of pouncing on these well-dressed filchers and pilferers and extorting large sums from them was almost like shoplifting in reverse.† (source)
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Murders to settle old accounts, extortions, blackmail —a real orgy!† (source)
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The extortioner does not practise in the home.† (source)
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The spell of royalty is broken, but it has not been succeeded by the majesty of the laws; the people has learned to despise all authority, but fear now extorts a larger tribute of obedience than that which was formerly paid by reverence and by love.† (source)
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Karas, that bad, rank character, cinder-crawed, wise to all angles, dressed to kill, with a kitty-cornered little smile and extortionist's eyes, she was in awe of him also, but he wasn't presumed to be in Einhorn's class.† (source)
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Photographs of personnel in compromising acts had been destroyed along with the corresponding negatives, the extortionists banished from the colony with threats not simply of exposure but of physical harm.† (source)
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The police are thieves and extortioners (I myself would patrol it with cavalry—young recruits under a strong captain), but at least they do not suffer any rivals.† (source)
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