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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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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He could always extort a day or two in class from them with the free weekly pizza.† (source)
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Should he chance to change his mind, thinking it justifiable to violate an extorted promise, woe unto him if he is caught!† (source)
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This guy who runs a criminal enterprise in narcotics, extortion, what else.† (source)
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She did at last extort from her father an acknowledgment that the horses were engaged.† (source)
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When the international community sent food, particularly the UN under Operation Restore Hope, Aidid's militia stole much of it—extorting or killing people who wouldn't cooperate—and traded the food with other countries for weapons.† (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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