extortion in English

noun
1
the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats.
Brute force, extortion , and bribery are not a policy, they are the last refuge of a mafioso.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "extortion" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "extortion", or refer to the context using the word "extortion" in the English Dictionary.

1. Murder, extortion, bribery?

2. Kidnapping... robbery, murder, extortion.

3. Examples: Extortion; blackmail; soliciting or promoting dowries

4. He faces charges of kidnapping and extortion.

5. Difference Between Blackmail and Extortion

6. EXTORTION, BLACKMAIL... YOU NAME IT.

7. He was arrested and charged with extortion.

8. Extortion is not an acceptable method of protest.

9. He has been charged with extortion and abusing his powers.

10. Such conduct would violate a federal extortion statute.

11. Facebook Rejects Extortion Attempt While Google Acquiesces

12. Even extortion has gone off the boil.

13. Ahn is accused of abduction, imprisonment and extortion.

14. 16 Such conduct would violate a federal extortion statute.

15. What income he has comes from heroin, extortion and other people's thieving.

16. He was known for running a brutal extortion racket.

17. Additionally, Blackmail or extortion may involve federal crimes in some cases

18. An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion.

19. There are many forms of Corruption, including bribery, embezzlement, and extortion

20. He said that the “word extortion ... literally means to ‘twist out [or against].’

21. Officers arrested Celso Rodriguez, and Rachel Mendoza, accusing them of kidnapping and extortion.

22. A fifth person was questioned by investigators in connection with the alleged extortion case.

23. Niyogi had made the police's work of extortion and intimidation more arduous.

24. In one unpublished crime novel, the extortion plan was mentioned, he added.

25. They control drugs, arms smuggling, black market diamonds, human trafficking, even murder and extortion.

26. As ISIL continues to lose territory, its ability to raise funds through “taxation”/ extortion will also dwindle.

27. Reliance on a single foreign supplier can leave a nation vulnerable to extortion and intimidation.

28. Williams, pleaded guilty to extortion on Jan. 28 and agreed to cooperate with the government.

29. The biggest difference between extortion and Blackmail is that Blackmail requires a threat

30. Voluntary codes for marketing and advertising; suppression of extortion and bribery; sound environmental management practices

31. It funds itself primarily through extortion, kidnapping and their participation in the illegal drug trade.

32. Whereas Blackmail is a crime based on information, extortion is a crime based on force

33. Appropriately, Paul strongly condemned greediness, extortion, and moral uncleanness in his letters to the Corinthians.

34. But some of the violence can be put down to attempts at extortion or revenge killings.

35. In 19 the violence escalated with the murders of two prominent producers and numerous incidents of extortion and threats.

36. Baptist Nunn, the caretaker of Bigshot Rayle and Lodge was receiving threats of extortion from the gang.

37. This presentation discusses the elements of both crimes and the distinction between Blackmail and extortion

38. While some people use the terms interchangeably, there is a difference between Blackmail and extortion

39. Kerzner has denied breaking the law, and Sun has characterized the episode as commercial extortion.

40. The hack drivers aided and abetted this extortion, hustling unwary tourists to the Davis establishment.

41. Money from extortion and drugs has reportedly financed a string of chic new restaurants and bars in Dushanbe.

42. XXX extortion porn videos, horny nude girls getting their first taste of blackmail on Blackmailed porn videos

43. 9 But some of the violence can be put down to attempts at extortion or revenge killings.

44. This arrangement naturally resulted in frequent complaints by the forest inhabitants about illegal extortion by the foresters.

45. Baptist Nunn(Sentencedict.com), the caretaker of Bigshot Rayle and Lodge was receiving threats of extortion from the gang.

46. In addition to engaging in vandalism, drug dealing, extortion, arson, and theft, delinquents have been directly targeting representatives of the State.

47. Blackmail and extortion are nearly synonymous terms used to describe crimes involving monetary demands backed up by threats

48. Mister, if you are trying to make extortion on us because we are immigrants, we know the law.

49. By his own admission, he had acquired his wealth by means of extortion —a practice that certainly hurt others.

50. The harassment charge was reduced from extortion, a felony, to the misdemeanor of harassment in exchange for the plea.