| In collaboration with the elite of Jerusalem, Herod extorted insane taxes from the peasantry to fund his megalomaniac building projects. |
| A leading candidate to be commander in chief putting himself in an easy position to be extorted. |
| On the one hand it was extorted by the terrible price of the Warsaw Uprising, while on the other by a cold look at the horrors of war. |
| Many corrupt immigration officials extorted vast quantities of money from terrified refugees. |
| It might be for the money, for the experience, or maybe they were extorted into doing it. |
| For most, imprisonment at home would equate to unspeakable living conditions, physical torture, and false confessions extorted by threats. |
