Accusations of abuse were pure extortive calumny in a malicious bid to make money. |
Insurers provide coverage for actual or pretended kidnapping, extortive threats or intentional, arbitrary capture or unlawful detention. |
But the college stood its ground, refusing to yield to these extortive demands. |
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. |
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. |
The extortive power of the rebels is easily demonstrated by blowing up the pipeline. |