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Example sentences for: blackmail

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In that world, if someone argued (as Richard does above) that a "law of privacy" was needed, as well as law protecting trade secrets; that laws regulating libel and slander were necessary, as well as a law regulating blackmail; if one even raised the issue of taxation, or suggested that the government was needed to "secure the infrastructure", then one would not be a "libertarian."
Honest blackmail! ...
The only film released on Labor Day weekend, the latest Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle is trashed for its preposterous plot: The Russian mafia has put miniature bombs in the buttons of jeans in order to blackmail the world.
Smear and blackmail are widespread political weapons in Asia, and "a free flow of information could reduce scope for blackmail," he added.
INS supporters countered that 1) the ruling was based solely on legal concerns ; and 2) the only blackmail was Cuban-Americans' threats of political retribution against the Clinton administration.