Sentences with phrase «means extorting money»

Not exact matches

«Extortion» in this case is political hyperbole and not necessarily meant as a statement of fact - ie North Korea was literally extorting money from the US.

The DPRK has obvious reasons to maintain at least a small nuclear arsenal: nuclear weapons offer defense against an alliance possessing overwhelming military advantages, a source of international prestige, and a means to extort money and other benefits from neighbors.

Road safety men take delight in staying in damaged parts of the road and start extorting money from motorist instead of notifying ministry of works to repair the damaged road which damaged tyres that leads to accidents, that for mean should be part of their work after all they are called ROAD SAFETY....

It means that people create fake profiles to extort money from trustworthy people.

As international criminal gangs increasingly target online dating and social networking sites, as a means of extorting money from unwary victims, research suggests.

As a side means of profiteering, he breaks into the houses of Jewish residents, extorting them of belongings and money through the threat of exposing them to the Nazis.

On the one hand, we can think of cults which we know exist to extort money (and other things) from people by using illegitimate means of persuasion: brainwashing, bullying, false promises.

Essentially, solving the longer term energy problem — i.e. let's quit relying on buying fossil fuels from places that don't like us and extort money — also solves any CO2 emission problem (if it exists) by default, meaning that climate change is a secondary beneficiary and not a primary reason to do any of these things.