| 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. |
| But corporate executives and shareholders alike should be disturbed by the extortive circumstances in which Jackson appears to have gathered much of their money. |
| But when extortive middle men took much of their earnings, IUCN helped form a farmer cooperative to link the farmers directly with the wholesale market. |
| 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. |
| This will be supported by a special Economic Council of persons from within and outside Djibouti to prevent extortive relations with officials, which include academics and former diplomats with valuable experience. |
| But the college stood its ground, refusing to yield to these extortive demands. |
