“They cheated their own people and used extortion against them in doing the overlords' dirty work.”

“About 35 percent of the cost of this house is in fees, exactions, conditions, licenses, and just plain extortion of the developer.”

“The military has also been widely accused of involvement in arms running, people smuggling, drugs, illegal logging and extortion rackets.”

“His later attempts to revise tax-assessments and improve the efficiency of their collection soon won him the reputation of an extortioner.”

“In Yorkshire he became an extortioner and highwayman, eventually in partnership with Thomas Tankard and Edward Bracy.”

“If you lend money to one of your poor neighbors among my people, you shall not act like an extortioner toward him by demanding interest from him.”

“Fundamentalism is far more elitist and extortionist than we can imagine.”

“This morning, Colvin testified that Khalid was an extortionist, drug smuggler and a torturer.”

“And the 1994 deal did its part to encourage Mr Kim in his extortionist habit of acting up and then pocketing placatory goodies, time and again.”

“Animal-rights activists are exploiting loopholes that, for example, prevent the use of extortion law unless the extorter seeks personal gain.”

“Others on the list included a Polish extorter with links to west London, a Romanian armed robber with ties in Birmingham and a Lithuanian kidnapper who may have stayed in Manchester.”

“According to The Nation newspaper, the extortionists who were mostly of Indian origin would pick on Indian traders.”

“Victims who pay extortionists are playing into the hands of cybercrooks and likely to receive repeat protection money requests.”

“Weighed against the local networks of politically-sponsored smugglers, black marketers and extortionists, are the interests of China's major domestic companies.”

“She helps police investigate murders, abductions, rapes and extortions.”

“How do you know,' says I, 'that that green goods man hasn't a large family dependent upon his extortions?”

“They also had much to tell of the extortions of the hemeldaria, or contractors for the haj.”