It was a stupid thing to say considering the threat of blackmail right there in front of me. |
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So skinflints and kids can get other people to pay for their phone calls through emotional blackmail. |
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A pox doctor's clerk knew all the personal details of the patients, so he had ample opportunities to supplement his income by blackmail. |
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He had to do a very public confession, because it was shown that he was paying blackmail. |
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Denying the second payment was blackmail, he said their meeting wasn't a big deal or boxing match, but an easy deal. |
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In cases of forced marriage the force can be emotional blackmail or other forms of psychological pressure. |
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There's a tightrope to walk between honesty and hysteria, emotional blackness and emotional blackmail. |
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I hope voters everywhere will treat this blackmail with the contempt it deserves. |
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I make statements that I know are deeply hurtful and unfair and essentially commit emotional blackmail. |
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Many of us are convinced that the dictator will acquire nuclear weapons fairly soon and subject any nation to nuclear blackmail. |
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Nobody wants the horrific slaughterhouse of war or the unbridled blackmail of terrorism but nobody wants to see evil flourish either. |
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Unwilling girls might be subjected to threats, ranging from physical violence and being locked up, to subtle emotional blackmail. |
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There was nothing he could do to stop her, except for using the emotional blackmail which she seemed to have become so good at. |
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Subsequently peer pressure and blackmail of friendship are often major contributing pull factors. |
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Could it be that folks are wising up to this kind of calculated emotional blackmail? |
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Clear-sightedness is only possible when one is not distracted by jargon, and psycho-babble or intimidated by emotional blackmail. |
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Another topic whose exposure might be threatened is the dictator's use of oil blackmail and bribery in influencing a wide variety of nations. |
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In other words, we can't afford to properly police copyright laws so we'll try and use emotional blackmail to keep people in line. |
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I grilled him until we reached the border, and learned an amazing amount of information that would be useful if I ever wanted to blackmail him. |
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That being said, know that if you ever try to blackmail me with this information, I will take you to the Tower myself. |
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Needless to say, if I ever wanted to make some quick money and blackmail someone, he would be the guy. |
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I trudged to my room, all the way muttering about how she would blackmail me with this little bit of information. |
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I really don't know why, but I every once in a while I got hold of information I could use to blackmail people. |
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Mindy informed her friend that she could remember everything and attempted to blackmail her into leaving John. |
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The liberals use this fact to blackmail him, trying to force him to vote for their candidate. |
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Maybe I could blackmail her into letting me listen to it by threatening to inform the world of her favourite film. |
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In order to manipulate and blackmail his boss, Jack beats himself up by making it appear that his boss was responsible. |
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Of course, it is wrong to nag, pressurise, coax, cajole or emotionally blackmail one's offspring into providing grandchildren. |
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It is unethical to effectively blackmail a player into giving up his rights with the threat of removal from the team. |
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I have some blackmail pictures of him running around my house in my ballet tutu from when he was seven. |
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Nobody would be as ungentlemanly as to call it blackmail, but they are open to political manipulation. |
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He thought I was accepting Alyssa's bribes or letting her blackmail me into getting them back together. |
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The former leader of York Council, who faces vice and blackmail charges, was yesterday given bail by a judge. |
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Dreze in a footnote suggests that nuclear blackmail against non-nuclear states has been credible and effective. |
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We are not trying to possess a nuclear deterrent in order to blackmail others. |
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Matters aren't helped when the investigation opens up a can of worms including blackmail, secrets, and adulterous affairs. |
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If someone does happen to talk to you about their problems, you will use it as blackmail. |
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A number of the country's biggest publishers say the strategy amounts to blackmail and are refusing to cave in. |
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Then I'll find out how to stalk, bribe and blackmail book editors and publishing honchos until they relent and publish your book. |
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His client still insists that she was coerced into committing the blackmail offences by her co-defendant. |
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I did indeed feel a certain admiration but it was mixed with revulsion that I was now implicated in blackmail just by knowing about it. |
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I said computer crackers were going to cause some serious damage and predicted they'd try blackmail. |
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Our organisation owns shares in a lot of these but we deal in theft, blackmail and counterfeiting. |
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Far from buying protection, the bank revealed itself as a easy mark, amenable to blackmail. |
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To call this graymail or blackmail is to demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of criminal jurisprudence. |
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Our minds are constantly troubled by the possibility of discovery, blackmail, disinheritance and murder. |
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The run for the presidency is no joke, rife with political chicanery, espionage and blackmail. |
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The offence of blackmail is broadened from the current offence of extortion by certain threats. |
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They are in no sense trying to blackmail parents into getting to the shops now to lash out large sums of money. |
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That's the way he characterised your approach and he said that was akin to blackmail. |
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It amounts to blackmail, but it was the only way to keep us safe from harm. |
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Computer crimes are frequently online variants of established crimes, like fraud and blackmail. |
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He could use bribery, blackmail, and other forms of coercion to keep his dishonored promises in circulation. |
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Nevertheless, the man's availability to bribery and blackmail could be useful. |
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His mother Jacqueline resorted to emotional blackmail to try to make him stop. |
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However, the hawks would say that's just giving in to blackmail, rewarding bad behaviour. |
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There is already the offence of blackmail, which penalizes the making of unwarranted demands with menaces, and this should be the starting-point. |
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Disobedience led to punishment, including beatings, imprisonment, blackmail, and death threats. |
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It is absolute blackmail and that was said to members of the Authority and various chairmen by tinpot politicians. |
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He was convicted at various times for auto theft, selling narcotics, blackmail, and child molestation. |
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Charges of blackmail peaked in the inter-war decades of the 1920s and 1930s and have been declining since. |
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The opportunities for police bargaining, threats, blackmail, and coercion to become an informer are unlimited. |
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It is, after all, free information usable for blackmail, theft or provoking a crippling system breakdown. |
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Extortion, blackmail and protection money are part of the daily life of the slums. |
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Other charges for blackmail, witness intimidation and perverting the course of justice were dropped earlier this year. |
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I refer to a judge who's put himself at grave risk of blackmail, entrapment, compromise and hypocrisy. |
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Detectives called at her home the same day and she was charged with blackmail following a police inquiry. |
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The offence of blackmail broadens the current offence of extortion by certain threats. |
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Police treated the approach as blackmail and brought charges against him last October. |
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Soon he finds himself caught up in a web of blackmail, corruption, and multiple murders, which start piling up in rapid succession. |
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The two accused appeared in court yesterday on charges of kidnapping, robbery and blackmail. |
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I do not trust people to make sound judgments, to take care of the information of others or to be beyond blackmail, corruption or plain greed. |
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He was sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison in 1991 for blackmail, robbery and illegal possession of fire arms. |
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He was embezzling in order to pay blackmail over a fight he was involved in, in which a person died. |
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He had in fact suggested several times that it might be necessary to pay blackmail to silence the burglars who broke into party headquarters. |
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Back in England, Hitchcock made the transition from silents to sound with blackmail, Britain's first talkie. |
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Once the hackers gain access to systems they download proprietary information, customer databases, and credit card information before trying to blackmail victims. |
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Italy's foreign minister described that demand as terrorist blackmail. |
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He used his Mafia links to blackmail politicians and build his influence. |
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You can never know who can become a spy for the enemy if you have enough means to pressure him, to blackmail him, to tempt him. |
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And our concerns that perhaps some of the princes were shaken down by blackmail to provide funds that have fueled a very large-scale international terrorist network. |
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Here was proof that blackmail was not something I was cut out for. |
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A 23-year-old man branded the UK's worst spammer has been jailed for six years for a string of offences including blackmail and threatening to kill. |
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She's using her police connections to blackmail money out of me. |
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He revealed details of the blackmail to churchwardens and members of the parochial church council and told them he was gay, before doing a bunk on police advice. |
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I have enough of my own guilt, without this emotional blackmail! |
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The High Command remained constricted by its novelettish story of murder, blackmail, and family secrets, but the verve of Dickinson's direction still shone through. |
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The country may continue to be a safe haven for terrorists and use it as bargaining leverage to extract further concessions from us through continuous blackmail. |
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His plot kicks in when, by a twist of fate and some benevolent blackmail, a young doctor is forced to leave Montreal and spend a mouth on the windswept outport. |
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At the time of his extortion conviction, van der Sloot showed no remorse for the blackmail. |
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Access to highly personal information may also play a role in crimes like bribery and blackmail, and involve individuals both within and outside of government offices. |
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The blackmail note that the police are looking for is in plain sight. |
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These connected crimes include corruption of state officials, forgery, use of fraud to obtain false certificates, blackmail, gunrunning, drug trafficking and money laundering. |
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Had he videotaped their escapades with threats of blackmail? |
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Some of the man-bashing and emotional blackmail seems a bit of a cop out when sections of the production are effectively dramatic and poetically lyrical. |
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An adulterous affair could be used as blackmail if it fell into the hands of a foreign intelligence service. |
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The more accomplished students took classes in safe-cracking, burglary, blackmail, and confidence games. |
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The operatives are not above using private detectives and bankrolled bloggers to engage in blackmail and scandal-mongering. |
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Their tactics of kidnap and blackmail shocked the world and I remember the cold shiver the very mention of their name sent down my spine as a child. |
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As well as being able to impose military discipline on members, the organisation can raise millions of pounds through robberies, smuggling, extortion, blackmail. |
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The fired host unloads on Current TV, accusing Al Gore of being a dilettante and co-owner Joel Hyatt of blackmail. |
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Taking the witness stand at the trial of the photographer who she claims tried to blackmail her, Diaz revealed that she thinks that she looked good. |
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Theft accompanied by a threat to damage property will not constitute robbery, but it may disclose an offence of blackmail. |
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They used intimidation and economic blackmail against activists and suspected activists, including teachers and other professionals. |
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Because some government officials apparently talked out of turn, the Russians can now engage in ballistics blackmail with our allies. |
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Plus, his known drug dealings certainly made him vulnerable to blackmail. |
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She was speaking yesterday at the trial in Pescara of faith healer Ernani Barretta, 63, who denies masterminding the blackmail plot. |
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When he sees Frank with the other one, he attempts to blackmail them. |
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Armed with a kitchen knife, he made five phone calls from telephone kiosks in Buckley near Mold, in which he made the blackmail demands, Mold Crown Court heard. |
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The penniless fantasist, who pleaded guilty to blackmail, came up with the scheme after reading about a similar plot against the Ecclestones that was foiled earlier this year. |
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Prosecutors say Triston Saltmarsh was a foot soldier in a blackmail scam designed to con the owners of small businesses out of thousands of pounds. |
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Some clans, such as the Clan MacFarlane and the Clan Farquharson, offered the Lowlanders protection against such raids, on terms not dissimilar to blackmail. |
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Cameron has tried to morally blackmail MPs into backing him by claiming they're faced with a stark choice of being the bulldog Churchill or the appeaser Chamberlain. |
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Gatecrashing a hedonistic world of pill-popping eccentrics and mad-for-it DJs, Carl and Sunny become unwitting pawns in a deadly game of blackmail and deceit. |
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It's all sleeper cells, blackmail, code names and kipper ties. |
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Museveni used the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity offered by the inauguration to praise Kenyans for refusing the IC blackmail by voting in ICC indictees as their leaders. |
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If he asks for longer, then you start the blackmail by saying you've been honest with him by fronting it up before the deal rather than firing him afterwards. |
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Indeed, such is the moral objectionableness of blackmail in many people's minds that they cannot imagine how the decriminalization of blackmail could possibly be supported. |
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It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. |
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If this guy knows who killed Robert, the right thing to do is to tell the police. If he doesn't know, really, then he's an opportunistic slime. It's still blackmail. |
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Police allege Azhar carried out the killing after Zulkarnaen attempted to blackmail him over a Jakarta hotel room tryst with the businessman s 22-year-old golf caddy wife. |
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