Sentences with phrase «called blackmail»

A Kentucky State Fair blue ribbon for home brewing was awarded to the maker of a bitter beer called Blackmail Ale, which features a picture on its label of Karen Sypher, the woman convicted of extorting Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino.

«Some high level clergy are exposed to the «external influence» — what we would call blackmail — of lay people to whom they are connected through ties of a «worldly nature,»» La Repubblica wrote.

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.

Not exact matches

Some blame the governor, Scott Walker, for announcing that Wisconsin was «open for business,» while jobs move elsewhere; others call the process of locating in the highest bidder's home town simply a form of corporate blackmail.

Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, called the lawsuit an Israeli attempt to blackmail Facebook and accused Israel of trying to turn the social network into a spy tool against Palestinians.

The AV - TEST Security Report 2016/2017 published today is calling ransomware a «marginal phenomenon,» highlighting that only 0.94 % of all malware deployed in 2016 was a blackmail trojan.

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.»

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

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

She noted the title was bestowed on him by the Republicans during last summer's coup and then, as part of what she called the «blackmail» that ended the 31 - day Senate stalemate, the post was stripped of most of its power so he could retain in and return to the majority.

A self - help organization in Albany called Nxivm has begun to unravel as members reveal disturbing practices like branding of women and fears of blackmail.

Calling the practice «political blackmail,» Conners said, «I am never surprised by how low the state will go to punish local governments.

A war of words developed in which Lewes Greens called the decision to stand down in Pavilion «emotional blackmail» and said they would not reconsider unless the «opportunist» Liberal Democrats stood down in Isle of Wight.

It would have been appropriate for the Telegraph to either print a concurrent editorial calling out Abdulaziz for blackmailing the UK or a news piece reporting on his threats, while giving space for security analysts and human rights activists to explain how menacing this message really was.

On the other hand, there were all these mega-billionaires who (a) threatened to target him if he voted no; (b) promised him huge campaign contributions if he went along; and (c) would pay to call him a «hater» and a «homophobe» and even, perhaps, pay «witnesseses» to allege he was in the closet as part of a blackmail scheme.

He described the Deputy CID of being a liar who called and insulted him of being stupid and plotting to blackmail her.

«You can hate the Fulani, you can call them all sort of names, you can blackmail their spineless political leaders, you can conspire to wipe out the entire Fulani leadership in a single day, you can stage a coup and «orkarize» (excise) the core Fulani states from Nigeria, you can hate them to he'll, but you can never beat them.

``... The blackmailing of the Western Region by our so - called experts and critics must stop!

He said that a member of the Tompolo family was one of those arrested and called for his release, saying, «he and others are being blackmailed because being a member of the Tompolo family should not form the basis for arrest and they are just being implicated by enemies of Tompolo, who are hellbent to humiliate the family.»

«Ibekaku, who was once a director in the EFCC, used her connections and contacts and illegally corrupted certain individuals and have them invite me to Benin, but thanks be to God that we have honest people within the EFCC, and so, that petition was transferred, but the intent was to detain me in Benin in an effort to blackmail me, tarnish my name, in retaliation for my call for the removal of the minister.

The latter type of modification is common in situations that do not require face - to - face communications and may vary from innocent prank calls to crimes such as blackmailing or threatening calls.

Well queenKeto, I shall now call these» coconut blackmail bars» as on a promise of more being made, I've now got a shelf up, I've been waiting for, compost put in the tubs, ready to grow my orgainic spinach, tomatoes, & herbs etc!

More than 300 men blackmailed by fraudsters posing as women on dating apps in Hong Kong Ambitious plans to launch a «space nation» called Asgardia already appear to be running into very Earth - like problems.

Wade acknowledged that the site had fielded calls from two other men who thought they were being blackmailed and notified the FBI, but he downplayed the dangers of this kind of Internet dating.

The students tie her to her bed's headboard, call her in sick, and try to get themselves out of this mess by staging a scandal with which they can blackmail her.

Last year, in a movie called Hostage, a family with a kid played by Jimmy Bennett is taken hostage while a grizzled professional is blackmailed by those who have ensnared his family; the music score was by Alexandre Desplat.

This year, a movie called Firewall depicts a family, with a kid played by Jimmy Bennett, taken hostage while a grizzled professional is blackmailed by those who have ensnared his family; the music score is, coincidentally, by Alexandre Desplat.

But this tale of an ordinary Joe being blackmailed to get somebody killed on his daily commute from NYC to Tarrytown, NY is an action picture whose aging hero we care about and root for, a thriller with tension and style, a B - movie Hitchcock would have been happy to call his own.

For the assailant, who calls himself Vasquez, tracks Charles down and blackmails him.

A statement submitted to the ARD Capital Studio, the «Berliner Kreis (Berlin Circle)», which includes numerous federal and communal politicians of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), calls for an end to «moral blackmail» by climate research and a «farewell to unilateral German CO2 targets.»

In fact, Richard North, an author of the disputed story, writing on a personal blog, called The Telegraph's retraction and apology «meaningless» and the result of «blackmail» by Mr. Pachauri's lawyers.

THe UK - based Scientific Alliance takes issue with claims of links between Atlantic hurricanes and so - called «man - made global warming» (aka climate change): «But no amount of moral blackmail will enable us to tune the climate to our liking when long term natural processes are underway, about which we understand very little and can not control.»

It's called Horizon and includes crisis response for «Political Threat, Disappearance, Violent Crime, Blackmail & Extortion, Terrorism, Wrongful Detention, Hijacking, and Kidnap for Ransom;» however, it still won't provide rescue when you need to be plucked from a mountain, but it is less money than Global Rescue or Ripcord.

Anyone can pick up your locked iPhone and send text messages and make phone calls on your behalf... someone could steal an iPhone and easily blackmail the owner.

In describing what he called «custody blackmail,» Chief Justice Neely wrote: