Synonymer & Oplysninger om | engelsk ord EXTORT

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Eksempler på brug af EXTORT i en sætning

• Cybersquatting, refers to registering Internet domain names similar to popular trademarks with the intent to extort the trademark holder.
• In 2010, a strip club developer sued the village, alleging that officials had tried to extort cash and part ownership of the club in exchange for approval to build the facility.
• They were once more bought off, and the amount of silver paid impressed the Danes with the idea that it was more profitable to extort payments from the English than to take whatever booty they could plunder.
• His eunuch Chrysaphius attempted to extort a present of gold to the Emperor but as he was unsuccessful, he began to plot against the new archbishop by supporting the archimandrite Eutyches in his dispute with Flavian.
• Penguin later attempted to extort money from a shipping company by pretending to flash-freeze a member of its board of directors.
• In 2018, Bleckner sued his former assistant Cody Gilman in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, accusing him of attempting to extort $2 million by threatening to portray their consensual relationship as a case of sexual harassment.
• He contended that the Prussian law allowed blackmailers to extort money from homosexuals and often drove them to suicide.
• Death, Deceit and Destiny Aboard the Orient Express is a 2000 thriller film about a group of international terrorists who, a few days before the start of the new millennium, lure a group of very rich celebrities and businesspeople on board the Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul in order to extort large sums of money from them.
• At least one of the stories printed in The Saturday Press led to a successful prosecution of a gangster called Big Mose Barnett who had tried to extort protection money from a local dry cleaner by destroying his customers' clothing.
• In 2008, the Banya Organization, a Chinese gang, was accused of assaulting employees of Chinatown bus lines in an attempt to extort partial ownership and a share of the profits.
• Charlie Chaplin's coffin was found buried in a field near Noville after being stolen by Roman Wardas and Gantcho Ganev in an attempt to extort money from his widow, Oona Chaplin.
• In the earlier film, Swami Yomurda (Mischa Auer) and his minions stage an elaborate scheme to extort money from gullible victims.
• And what a thing it is to reflect on, that these shopkeepers have the whole of the labouring men of England constantly in their debt; have on an average a mortgage on their wages to the amount of five or six weeks, and make them pay any price that they choose to extort.
• The Qing dynasty writer Pan Mei (潘眉) rebutted the Jin Shus account about Chen Shou attempting to extort from the Dings and called it "uninformed".
• With his side-kick (Vincent Kok), Jimmy steals a personal diary belonging to a yakuza leader, Ken Sato (Masaya Kato), intending to use its details as a platform for blackmailing and to extort money.
• In 1998, LoCascio and Michael "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo were arrested for attempting to extort money from Scores, a famous upscale strip club in Manhattan.
• "A Defenseless Creature" - A woman with a nervous disorder harasses an ill banker to extort money for her injured husband.
• And to prevent the baseness and avarice of wicked men we forbid anyone to deface or damage their cemeteries or to extort money from them by threatening to exhume the bodies of their dead.
• In 2004 a British television studio created a special entitled The Heist which saw Funke teamed with Peter Scott, Mathew Bevan, Joey Pyle and Terry Smith (All celebrated criminals in different fields of expertise) in an attempt to "steal" a painting from the London Art Fair, steal a TVR Sagaris prototype and hold hostage a prize-winning racehorse whilst attempting to extort a ransom of the horse owner.
• Jones later counter-sued Cris Dishman and his former wife Karen Dishman; the previous matter was declared settled and Jones received a money judgment against both Cris and Karen Dishman in 2006 for their part in illegally trying to extort more money from Jones.
• The old miser seems utterly aghast at the possibility that it might be a kidnapping whose object would be to extort his wealth.
• Four months after Apple Computer filed an antitrust lawsuit against Acacia for conspiring with Nokia to extort exorbitant revenues from handset manufacturers, in 2017 Acacia sued Apple Computer and some cellular carriers over four patents held by Nokia.
• On the way to extort money from a widow, the Summoner encounters a yeoman who is dressed in Lincoln green, a costume worn by outlaws and poachers.
• " Its composition excoriates an unfaithful lover for attempting to extort money, described as a "mean-spirited duet that rails against enemies.
• The pair visit a rundown slum known as Pigsty Alley to extort the residents by pretending to be Axe members.

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