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But sometimes they turn on these people and extort money from them.

I was working - no point in trying to extort food.

The key question is whether it was extorted or not.

And so they're looking for someone that they can extort in order to get money.

His visit was another effort to extort money from my family.

How much reward was she going to try to extort?

Are we going to let a corpse extort money from us?

Let them know what it feels like for those they extorted money from.

In effect they are extorting the legal system for their own gain.

Paper locals are often used as a means of extorting money.

The parents of a 16-year-old contacted police because a boy was extorting their daughter.

It would not be necessary for her to extort promises from you.

Now, the officers are simply extorting whatever the market will bear.

Trying to extort him wouldn't seem out of line at all.

I knew exactly how much he had extorted from his people."

And tell him too that you'd both have had every- thing you thought to extort from us, merely by waiting.

"I'm not going to let that woman extort money from you on top of everything else.

For a moment, she considered trying to extort information from him without revealing anything herself.

Would you extort from me a statement of my motives?

It came to be the prime method of extorting evidence.

"We have taught them to get what they deserve by extorting the political system."

Basically so he could extort a payment from them to make him go away.

It was some time, however, before a smile could be extorted from Jane.

So it becomes a good way of extorting money from businesses.

It is not to extort money from the public to keep people in power and jobs for their own sake.