Exempel på extorting

• However, news reports indicate that police forces were more interested in mounting illegal checkpoints and extorting bribes from civilians than in maintaining law and order.

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

• Those officers were charged with having robbed those people, extorting money from them in consideration for not reporting them.

• This trade has been getting away with extorting huge sums of money from unsuspecting motorists for a long time.

• It was simply putting on a clamp and extorting money from innocent car owners.

• He may have been a bad debtor, but this is evidence of the length to which the practice is being taken in extorting payment.

• It is a cartel, explicit or implicit, which has been extorting money from travellers for donkeys' years just to keep national airlines in existence.

• He was charged with extorting money with menaces.

• He has just spoken again about extorting a further £80 million from industry and putting a further burden upon it.

• If you really propose to make tariffs a reality you must use them for extorting concessions from other countries.

• They exist in the home, extorting fear, submission and subservience from women who are deprived of their independence.

• It is a small matter, but there is something in the point that not all agreements are connected with extorting the maximum price from the public.

• That old woman is generally some big company or trust which has invested money in property, and which is extorting the last farthing and shilling out of the tenants.

• It is his duty, when he is extorting contributions week by week from the wages of poor people, to see that they receive the proper benefits they are paying for.

• The bishop was further charged with extorting money from his clergy on his visitations.