Sentences with phrase «like blackmail»

It feels like blackmail to have to pay an exorbitant amount for a barely perceptible ding on a 15 year old car, but is it probably better than the alternative?

When you follow this all up with what felt like blackmail to opt out of a class action lawsuit, I can see where some people would be bitter.

The breeder asked us to tell them it was a random attack to avoid rangers coming up to her house (felt a bit like blackmail, really, whether intentional or not).

However Gianni Pittella, leader of the socialist bloc in the European parliament said the move «feels like blackmail».

Additionally, it argues that the US should end its legal troop deployments to Japan and South Korea in hopes that North Korea would end its illegal development of nuclear weapons, which sounds a lot like blackmail.

Not exact matches

Martin Scorsese's recent film Silence, like the historical novel by Shūsaku Endō on which it is based, turns on an act of emotional blackmail.

As told by Helen Thomas Those group were able to pass on their agenda and propaganda by enforcing the belief that their nation is the only victemized nation on this planet earth and all through history old and new, and she added that they like it this way acting as victimized as it makes it easier for them to cross the boarders, blackmailing all those nations.

What a «godsend» to any criminal enterprise that likes to use ext0rtion and blackmail!

- because He gets a kick out of hearing us ramble on... much like a parent thinks «silly» sayings of a 3 year old are cute (and can be used as «blackmail» in the teenage years).

We would not want Ramsey to blackmail Arsenal with obscene salary request like Ozil and Sanchez

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

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.

Why do they need to use blackmail, why not hold a public referendum on charters like MA did?

«One wonders why this same resources and vigour with which Apostle Suleman is being blackmailed have not been deployed into confronting those murderous herdsmen that are slaughtering Nigerians like animals across the country.»

The US offered cash to persuade climate - vulnerable nations like the Maldives to sign up to its favoured Copenhagen accord, a ploy that Pablo Solón, head of this year's Bolivian delegation, describes as «blackmail».

Maybe you don't have enough time because you have shit like kids, or you're the CEO of a Fortune 100 company being blackmailed by a stripper.

But if, like me, it's not quite right, the results are future blackmail in the making.

It also helps people who could otherwise be blackmailed with information like this if it ever gets leaked.

Books shelved as dating: He's Just Not That Into You: The No - Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys by Greg Behrendt, Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari, I Kisse... Best books like The Trouble With Dating Sue: # 1 Accidental Billionaire (Accidental # 5) # 2 Finding You # 3 The Dreamwalker's Child # 4 Blackmail Boyfriend

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.

He meets up with Paris Hilton, a rich snotty party girl (sound familiar), who actually is nice, kind, helpful towards the poor, and likes to read books (yea right, get real) who runs him over with her car whereupon he promptly blackmails her but instead of the money, he wants her to make him popular.

Gerry is loathe to come out of retirement (the guy really likes his pancakes) but with the help of a daring helicopter rescue he and his family are deposited on an aircraft carrier, perhaps the planet's only safe zone, and Gerry is essentially blackmailed into accompanying a young scientist to South Korea, where it's thought the zombie - making began.

Milland blackmails a disgraced former army comrade (Anthony Dawson) into murdering Kelly and making it look like the work of a burglar.

Did someone blackmail Richard Gere to join Kate Bosworth and Jack McBrayer in a bit about the «iBabe,» a music player shaped like a full - sized naked woman that's been mutilating teenage boys?

«Cash on Demand» (1961), 5:00 and 9:30 p.m.: «A Christmas Carol» goes noir as a Scrooge - like bank manager (Peter Cushing) finds himself blackmailed into robbing his own bank.

Dead Island's use of a child, whilst extremely effective, feels like a kind of emotional blackmail if considered as part of a wider picture.

This dark comedy, action crime thriller mainly features «inventive blackmail schemes, flamboyant gangsters, power politics, greed, evangelicals and sex,» which sounds like fun.

Whatever CIA benefactors he served were essentially blackmailing him into clandestine ops to serve shady operations like the Iran - Contra affair.

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.

Everything I record after 9 p.m. is painful for me to hear, but I type out the important stuff and then delete the recordings for fear that these could fall into the wrong blackmailing hands — my interview with Derek sounds more like harassment than reporting.

Personally it feels like Sony's blackmail, but I might just need to resubscribe PS + for 1 more year.

It almost sounds like a form of blackmail: give us money or we'll burn down these trees!

I guess we can add blackmail and extortion to Clinton's list of virtues, sounds like a RICO case to me.

It also ensures security of supply in its broadest sense - that is to say it renders an economy less vulnerable to political blackmail by countres that don't like us.Not sure how we get to ths desirable nirvana however.

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.»

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.»

the ALP simply must deal with the Greens, and the Greens have to deal with the ALP and not pose as wacky uncompromising Trots or a blackmailing rightwinger like Harradine.

Point taken, I'm not trying to sound like I'm blackmailing anyone, just asking if the social repercussions would be worth the legal expenditure.

Does a positive formulation like that still constitute blackmail?

It sounds like the recruiter may be trying to unfairly get more commissions and also to have a means by which to blackmail former clients with the risk of losing their jobs.

With the blackmail and not being an adult, it seems like an interesting legal scenario.

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.

It's almost like unacknowledged blackmail.