Sentences with phrase «at blackmailing»

The trio are a pretty amoral group in the face of the harsher realities of New Delhi life, but a subplot involving Nitin's attempt at blackmailing a hapless neighbor has a happy ending.

DSS Arrest, Parades Suspected Blackmailers (Statement) The Department of State Services (DSS) wishes to draw the attention of the public to the infamous activities of some unscrupulous elements who have resorted to condemnable tactics aimed at blackmailing and extorting money from unsuspecting and innocent people.

The anti-graft agency maintained that the EFCC boss does not bully anyone, and has not embarked on any mission aimed at blackmailing some highly placed personalities in the country such as emirs, President Muhammadu Buhari's appointees or any other individual, lowly or highly placed in the society.

Mr. Trump has put this all at risk with his bullying tactics and attempts at blackmailing President Enrique Peña Nieto and Mexico into paying for a border wall that we neither believe in nor are willing to help build.

Laws maintained a secret, one that could have exposed him, the administration and thus this country to attempts at blackmail.

When the notes on his memoir are accidentally left behind in a gym, they fall into the hands of gym employees Chad [Brad Pitt] and Linda [Frances McDormand] whose attempt to return them is mistaken for an attempted at blackmail.

If you have proof that a negative review wasn't written by a real client — or, if it's an attempt at blackmail — Gordon suggests contacting the review site and asking them to take it down.

Not exact matches

At the time, North Korea specifically mentioned the bombers «which get on the nerves of DPRK and threaten and blackmail it through their frequent visits to the sky above Korea.»

Nobody with this kind of exposure to blackmail or manipulation by special interests or foreign intelligence agencies would be able to get a high - end security clearance, and, traditionally, at least, that would have made someone ineligible for a high - level White House position.

China seems to blow up Trump's strategy to blackmail U.S. trade partners into granting the U.S. more favourable conditions of trade so he can avoid a real trade war but get something done at the same time.

North Bay Village, a normally quiet Miami - Dade city of about 7,000 residents, is now home to a political firestorm over allegations of voter fraud and blackmail linked to its at - large commissioner.

«Comprising not even 1 % of the overall share of malware for Windows, the blackmail Trojans appear at first glance to be a marginal phenomenon,» researchers said.

Some lenders should be avoided at all costs because they use blackmail, threats of violence, and other illegal practices.

Art Rolnick, an economist at the University of Minnesota, called Amazon's bidding process — and the broader practice of cities competing for stadiums and factories — «blackmail.»

Correction: This article was changed on October 24 at 3:40 PM to remove the word «blackmail».

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

It is called emotional blackmail at best and brainwashing and stealing their minds at worst.

Dismissing the reports, MPI said its counterparts in China had «indicated that they're unaware of any consignments that have been stopped at the border as a result of this criminal blackmail threat.»

He'll start off by insulting new arrivals and then he'll come out with the same old comment he's been using for years,» I was wanted by the biggest clubs in Europe but chose to honour my contract» in an attempt of emotional blackmail to get the board to at least let him see out his contract until 2019.

«Turn the screens red at Nestlé's intelligence centre by spreading the word about its unacceptable economic blackmail of the Philippines to persuade it to reconsider.

Juncker has hit out at what he called Cameron's «blackmail» — but many are now asking whether any alternative candidates could be put forward.

In the end the greatest difference between the countries is that India and Pakistan demonstrably use their nuclear arms for deterrence, while North Korea uses theirs in combination with an unstable dictator (or at least, a dictator who believes it is to his advantage to appear unstable) to garner concessions from the world in what one could call blackmail.

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday June 20 organized by the National Democratic Congress [NDC] to react to some comments made by President Akufo - Addo at a media encounter at the Flagstaff House in Accra, the minority leader said the NDC will resist the «blackmail witch - hunting» of the head of the election management body who was appointed by the past Mahama administration.

Karim Benzema will not play for France at Euro 2016 unless the charges against him in the ongoing Mathieu Valbuena blackmail case are dropped, French Football Federation (FFF) president Noel Le Graet has said.

«Other allegations of economic and financial crimes include: soliciting for inappropriate favors from agencies and multi-national companies; compelling an agency to grant loans; blackmailing a construction company to do some work at the Speaker's Asokoro, Abuja plot; and designing a scheme to scam members of the House through deductions from their salaries for supposed mortgage arrangements.»

(Paterson begs to differ on that, insisting he never actually named names when he spoke of thuggery and blackmail at yesterday's leaders meeting).

Speaking at a conference held in Senegal, Sheikh Saliou Mbacke, a Senegalese Muslim leader who coordinates the Interfaith Action for Peace in Africa said; «The subject of homosexuality must not be used as a tool to blackmail and coerce society to defy God's command, which is more important than any world power,» he said.

The lawyer for a Russian woman charged with blackmailing former Gov. Eliot Spitzer said that the disgraced former pol wielded «political influence» at the outset of the drama and should have been arrested.

He also admitted he had never heard of the fact that his senior reporter at the News of the World, Neville Thurlbeck, had been found by a judge to be guilty of blackmail.

He maintained that senate was being blackmail to approve the budget owing to the scarcity of fuel across the country at the time of its consideration.

Blackmail, on the other hand, is the standard accusation of the weaker partner, as Nick Macpherson, former head of the civil servant at the Treasury, pointed out.

Persons who stand up against the corrupt and corrupt practices in society are very often either bought off, blackmailed into silence through death threats or forced to face financial ruin and at worst physically eliminated.

«They have resorted to cheap blackmail as it is becoming obvious that the efforts of Ali Modu Sheriff at frustrating every attempt to impose a non party member as our presidential nominee is beginning to gain the attention of well - meaning members.

Lord Feldman is under pressure to quit as Tory chairman over the bullying and blackmail scandal engulfing the party, before a Conservative board meeting on Monday that will look at ordering a full independent inquiry.

«In my own view, this plot is an act of desperation, blackmail, intimidation, abuse of office and crude tactics aimed at turning our country into a Police State where top officials can not be made to obey the law, follow due process and subject themselves to constituted authorities,» the Senate President told Senators.

The General Public are hereby implored to disregard and discountenance the resolution of the Senate on the IGP as a deliberate blackmail, witch - hunting and mischievously aimed at casting aspersions on the hard earned integrity of the Inspector General of Police and the Nigeria Police Force.

Party facing questions over its investigation of former aide at centre of allegations of attempted blackmail, bullying and sexual harassment

The Conservatives are under scrutiny about whether they properly investigated verbal complaints about the Conservative election aide Mark Clarke, who is at the centre of allegations of attempted blackmail, bullying and sexual harassment.

The Mission argued that some of the Chinese illegal miners were also victims of fraud and blackmail hence their cases must be holistically looked at by government before taking action.

The Senate President has also charged the IG of «blackmail, intimidation, abuse of office and crude tactics aimed at turning our country into a Police State where top officials can not be made to obey the law, follow due process and subject themselves to constituted authorities.»

«I'm at a loss to know how my standing at the Museum has been affected by this blackmail case and whether I shall be wanted there again,» he wrote on December 20, 1919, from Okmulgee, Oklahoma.

The most famous Einstein letter is in 1939, but in the spring of 1940, when Szilard and Fermi were not receiving the money that they were promised, they wrote a second letter; that is, Einstein and Szilard, in a fact, blackmailing the federal government and saying, if you don't send us the money to do research at Columbia, we're going to publish our results.

Six months after the December 2006 Indigenous World Uranium Summit (IWUS) at Window Rock, Arizona, the assault by governments and the uranium industry on Mother Earth continues throughout the world.Driven by the inflated, but rising price of uranium on the world market, this perceived economic boom is creating economic blackmail in Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities worldwide, including several in New Mexico.

The company's comprehensive anti-phishing solutions are especially useful in the dating industry where fraudulent claims can put singles at risk for blackmail and identity theft.

This is a sure way to get yourself blackmailed or to cause an ugly scene at home.

Dent was the «nameless victim» in at least three sexual blackmail plots, paying out more than $ 200,000 to keep his online sex life secret.

This could put users at risk of extortion and blackmail.

At least two others are accused of trying to blackmail Dent in the last two years, including one New York man — the husband of a sugar baby - who was arrested in 2007.

Ray handles two crises involving movie star clients: A-list actor Sean Walker (Johnathon Schaech) receives a threatening message at home and action hero Tommy Wheeler (Austin Nichols) is blackmailed with a sex video.

Synopsis: «When a break - in occurs at a secretive genetics institute, blind puzzle - maker Franco Arnò (Karl Malden, Patton, One - Eyed Jacks), who overheard an attempt to blackmail one of the institute s scientists shortly before the robbery, teams up with intrepid reporter Carlo Giordani (James Franciscus, Beneath the Planet of the Apes) to crack the case.