Accusations of abuse were pure extortive calumny in a malicious bid to make money. |
But corporate executives and shareholders alike should be disturbed by the extortive circumstances in which Jackson appears to have gathered much of their money. |
Insurers provide coverage for actual or pretended kidnapping, extortive threats or intentional, arbitrary capture or unlawful detention. |
While they're at it, they might also want to cover the resulting loss of proceeds from remittances and the extortive diaspora tax on Eritreans abroad. |
But the college stood its ground, refusing to yield to these extortive demands. |
Between 2002 and 2005, extortive kidnapping, a crime closely linked to the financing of armed organizations, decreased by 80 per cent, from almost 2,000 to fewer than 400 cases. |