extort Значение & определение

Примери за extort

• It will solve nothing if the state forbids them to extort money from litigants without giving them alternative ways to generate income.

• In addition to armed robbery, these gangs ran protection rackets, extorting money from business people and traders as well as attacking their customers.

• Alternatively, they follow the example of corrupt judges and extort money from their detainees.

• The groups tried to extort public tenders in favour of the unemployed tradesmen.

• The more lucrative the contracts, the higher are the bribe prices that officials can extort.

• But nobody any longer believes the confessions extorted by a totalitarian police and produced in these trials.

• I think we are all now familiar with the methods used to extort these so-called confessions, and know what value to put upon them.

• From the newspaper reports it does not appear that the false confessions were extorted by the police, who moreover did not act upon them.