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Sentence count:68+1Posted:2017-03-18Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: extortproportional representationportionabortionapportionapportionedproportionproportionalMeaning: [ɪk'stɔːʃn]  n. 1. an exorbitant charge 2. unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority) 3. the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence). 
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31. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit extortion.
32. Today, Rostov stands accused of extortion and racketeering.
33. The crooks shook down the shopkeepers for extortion money.
34. He faces trial on extortion charges.
35. They were aggrieved by oppression and extortion.
36. Opponents accused him of blackmail and extortion.
37. She did fifteen years for extortion and bank robbery.
38. Many gangs collected protection in the form of extortion.
39. None of these officials were named, but the letter writer cursingly accused them of collaborating against him in an extortion plot.
40. Low-born king's intimates, Reynold Bray, Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley, devoted themselves to extortion, while the king's spies and "promoters" roamed and listened everywhere.
41. Among the jokesters were 236 Republicans playing the politics of extortion, and 82 feckless Democrats who fret that Republicans could transform a courageous vote into a foul-smelling advertisement.
42. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
43. So Zhang and Liu had sprouted on the idea of extortion.
44. The bad news was that this supply route is also fraught with pitfalls, from arduous delays to bribes and extortion.
45. This harasser may become involved in sexual extortion, and may frequently harass just to see how targets respond—those who don't resist may even become targets for rape.
46. And if you dig a little deeper, you'll find smuggling, fraud, extortion, public deception, lying under oath about the addictiveness of tobacco, and even links to terrorism.
47. The sense of wrongs, the injustices, the oppression, extortion, and pillage of twenty years suddenly and found voice in a raucous howl of execration.
48. A drama of labor extortion with the heroines memory as hostage.
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49. Over the next years, the Gulf Cartel and its commandos, the Zetas, moved into Nuevo Laredo and started taking over the drug and extortion rackets from local gangs.
50. We can get him on extortion, but other than that, I got nothing.
51. Ex-policeman Rolando Mendoza took the busload of Hong Kong tourists hostage in Manila in a desperate bid to have himself cleared of extortion charges and get his job back.
52. No : SPECTRE . Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.
53. Amounting to a parallel state, these illicit networks engage in arms trafficking, money laundering, extortion, human smuggling, black-market adoptions, and kidnapping for ransom.
54. An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion.
55. As might be expected under the terror, the extortion, the taxation and the corruption, the economy and whole livelihood of the people of Anyang had declined even below the subsistence level.
56. Extortion, taxes, blackmail drove others over to seek a way of living.
57. We will not allow corruption , extortion, embezzlement or falsification.
58. Such extortion cases targeting Web sites are occurring with greater frequency.
59. Unscrupulous use of one's position to derive profit or advantages; extortion.
60. Along with Gary Steven Krist, she was wanted for the kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle, and for extortion.
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