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Example sentences for: extortion

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Most people don't want to vote for a party that constantly succumbs to extortion from an extreme faction.
Why would a powerful businessman succumb to extortion, plead guilty to a criminal charge of tax evasion, and pay a fine he did not owe?
For instance, its biggest extortion schemes in the New York area have been broken up: It no longer controls wholesale food (the City Council broke its hold on Fulton Fish Market) or Long Island's garbage-removal cartel.
). I mean law professor Michael Rips' argument that the woman in the Bill Cosby extortion case wasn't doing anything illegal--at least she wouldn't have been if she'd done what more sophisticated people do for money every day--have a lawyer threaten to make the disclosures.
His charge of "ideological extortion" is part of his ideological extortion.