Criminal offense of obtaining benefit through coercion.
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Examples for "shakedown "
Examples for "shakedown "
1 He certainly has the players required to feature in the final shakedown .
2 Her featherbed was twice as wide and lofty as my straw-and-rag-filled shakedown .
3 I wrapped up Solace and drew her to me on the shakedown .
4 Would have been stupid to do until their shakedown run was over.
5 They gave me a shakedown for the night in the cargo.
1 Nor is the tithe any longer the only exaction demanded by the Prophet.
2 The reputed exaction of his executive chamber was a sore spot to him.
3 Further application to the King put an end to this exaction . - Ed.
4 Nor was this exaction unreasonable in view of the emergency.
5 Let us see in what terms Dr. Kuyper justifies the Boer policy of exaction :
1 Violence, extortion , and intimidation continued throughout the year. The issue divides Nepal.
2 Yet extortion often costs him as much as or more than taxes.
3 Five months later, police arrested two KPK commissioners for extortion and bribery.
4 Later he handled a company facing extortion by the same insurgent group.
5 I'm truly impressed by your legal knowledge, but extortion is a crime.
6 But they still hold scores more hostages for political leverage and extortion .
7 The fraud count and one extortion count carry maximum 20-year prison terms.
8 The Republican platform permits extortion ; but tariff extortion is robbery by law.
9 Others say the motive could be as simple as robbery or extortion .
10 Vespasian's father was a tax collector; he has extortion in the blood.'
11 He is also charged racketeering and extortion for other alleged criminal activity.
12 And, as a rule, masters and mistresses give in to the extortion .
13 Needless to relate the details either of the confession or its extortion .
14 What they're effecting is a kind of extortion of river merchants, really.
15 What dogged him though was the flurry of blackmail and extortion claims.
16 I mean to stand this siege of extortion to the last gasp.
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Extortion в диалектах
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