Sentences with phrase «extortion racket»
"Extortion racket" refers to a situation where someone or a group pressures or threatens others to give them money or other valuables through intimidation or force. It is like an organized criminal scheme that uses fear or violence to make people pay up. Full definition
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Simon «Sick Boy» (Jonny Lee Miller) has taken over his family's crumbling bar, and runs a little extortion racket on the side.
Finkelstein is himself the child of holocaust survivors but is also a strong critic of Israel.According to the publishers» blurb, he claims that «the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket».
That is, until you are eating with some weirdo who is totally on board with Tom Nook and his shameless extortion racket.
Former rebels from the Congrès national pour la défense du peuple (CNDP) have established mafia - style extortion rackets covering some of the most lucrative tin and tantalum mining areas in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), campaign group Global Witness reported today, following four weeks of research in the region.
According to some reports this malware can be best referred as an online extortion racket.
The second thing we learned from today's oral argument is that public sector unions are, by their own counsel's admission, extortion rackets.
Carbon taxes are an extortion racket based on a scientifically bogus model of the climate, Whitehouse should be hung by his own petard.
Pandering to this extortion racket are the big candy manufacturers, filling their shelves with crap.