Sentences with phrase «including blackmail»

His early work with these, including Blackmail (1929) and Murder (1930), seem primitive by modern standards, but have many of the essential elements of Hitchcock's subsequent successes, even if they are presented in technically rudimentary terms.

I feel like I've tried everything... including blackmail with sticker charts.

White duly makes an eye - wateringly painful intervention, from which Joe is only just rescued by his dad, pulling every string he can manage including blackmailing the Boston DA.

Koch manages to include blackmail, a hereditary disorder, You Tube clips, quite a bit of violence, some hilarious descriptions of restaurant practices, a plot twist that will leave readers gasping and a chilling climax.

This month's best new mysteries include blackmail, drama at the Italian opera, a Cuban scandal and the latest from Norwegian powerhouse Jo Nesbø.

Yes, that might include blackmail, but it also could include less malevolent but still worrisome practices like ad targeting that reinforces stereotypes or markets harmful products.

Its «services» included blackmailing, entrapping or extorting rival politicians, and releasing propaganda to the public.

Not exact matches

CEO Alexander Nix was suspended within days after he was filmed by undercover reporters from the UK's Channel 4 bragging about ways to win political campaigns, including through blackmail and setting «honey traps».

«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.»

[6][7] Illegal means of gaining information used included hacking the private voicemail accounts on mobile phones, hacking into computers, making false statements to officials, entrapment, blackmail, burglaries, theft of mobile phones and making payments to public officials.

The deal includes the Spitzer case, but she does not have to admit to attempting to blackmail Spitzer by threatening to make their affair public.

Over several months, many Assembly members, including Republican James Tedisco of upstate Glenville, Kolb's predecessor as minority leader, have told The Post that they're convinced Silver has directly or indirectly blackmailed Kolb into silence because he possesses some evidence or allegation of improper conduct against him — a claim Kolb's spokesman strongly denied.

Second, the Conservative Party and its supporters have claimed that including the SNP in any government will lead to chaos as Miliband's government would be liable to a «daily dose of blackmail» that will result in continuous instability.

The statement said: «These are people who have spent months and days in Kirikiri Prisons in Lagos State and the dungeon of the Department of State Services for attempt to blackmail and extort money from eminent Nigerians, including prominent businessman, Femi Otedola; and a former Governor of Niger State, Dr. Babangida Aliyu.

letting the Four Amigos / Banditos (including Bronx Dems Pedro Espada and Ruben Diaz Sr.) blackmail him for their votes in the narrowly split senate, blow the party's Senate budget and seeing Republicans take back control with a comfortable 33 - 29 majority.

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.

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.

In the best neo-con fashion Fleury tramples roughshod over diplomatic niceties, blackmailing a Saudi prince to secure an invitation to the crime scene, then rubbing salt in the wound by including a wisecracking Jew (Jason Bateman) and a female forensics specialist (Jennifer Garner) in his three - person backup team.

An all - star cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich, come together in this outrageous spy comedy about murder, blackmail, sex addiction and physical fitness!

A private firm staffed by ex-intelligence operatives — whose clients include major American corporations and foreign governments — seeking to influence events through bribery, blackmail and manipulating the truth?

Thanks to Malvo's Old Testament - tinged blackmail of God - fearing supermarket tsar Stavros Milos (which includes loosing a plague of locusts on his store and bathing him in pig's blood), we finally find out what happened to the briefcase full of cash that, in the film, was buried in the snow.

Anyways, I like the idea of wanting to include him in the game and I guess I can technically see how they can implement him but the blackmailing tone of the interview just seems sketchy»... we'll develop games for the Wii U only if the character appears in SSB and the use of the character being totally free (paraphrashed)» and with the creators asking nothing in return.

In Crisis, Washington's most powerful players, including the president, find themselves blackmailed into an international conspiracy by an unlikely puppeteer.

And their chief attraction is likely to resemble blackmail: Whatever you do, we will include your books but distribute through us and we'll purge our system of bootleg copies of them.

Black paints many idioms and expressions including black market, blackmail, blacklist, black sheep, black and white, black and blue, in the black, black thoughts and black holes.

Are you being threatened or blackmailed; either on behalf of you, or on behalf of others (e.g. family members) close to you, including the younger generation (s)?

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.»

The unverified allegations — including a claim Russia has material that could be used to blackmail Mr. Trump — were deemed sufficiently significant by senior intelligence officials... They said sharing of such unverified information was taken out of an abundance of caution...

The value and worth of a lawyer's services may be said generally to depend on freedom from conflict, including a conflict created by personal blackmail.

[18] In Dudgeon, the European Court of Human Rights recognised the «fear, suffering and psychological distress directly caused by the very existence of the laws in question, including fear of harassment and blackmail», [19] and in Norris the Strasbourg Court further noted: [20]

Some of the data included information on peoples» sex lives, drug and alcohol problems and debts, all of which could be used for blackmail.

(The author included this offence in a chapter titled «blackmail and related offences»).

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.