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1. In countries where interest is permitted, the law in order to prevent the extortion of usury, generally fixes the highest rate which can be taken without incurring a penalty
2. Their ill success was imputed, by their factors and agents, to the extortion and oppression of the Spanish government ; but was, perhaps, principally owing to the profusion and depredations of those very factors and agents; some of whom are said to have acquired great fortunes, even in one year
3. This hostage is carefully planned but with money extortion as aim
4. gained of your neighbours by extortion, and has forgotten me, says the Lord God
5. Legendary influences, legal notions, and fiscal hopes of the chance to exact maximum extortion in taxes and contributions from Jews merged with old imperial conceptions of the duty to give protection and the safeguarding of ordered life to embrace all the
6. ” This legal conception served in many cases as a license for the capricious extortion of money from Jews…
7. It is obvious that rough arm tactics, bribery and extortion were rife
8. Sounds like extortion to me
9. 39 The Lord said to him "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness
10. 25 "Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter but within they are full of extortion unrighteousness and self indulgence
11. 23:2-31 The Scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat therefore everything whatever they bid you observe that observe and do but do nothing like their works because they say and do not do it because they bind heavy burdens and too difficult to be carried and lay them on men’s shoulders but they themselves will not carry any of those things with one of their fingers but all their works they do to be seen by men; they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garment and love the uppermost rooms at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the Markets and love to be called: “Rabbi Rabbi” by men; but do not be called Rabbi because only one is your Master even Christ and you are all brothers anyway; and call no man on the Earth your father because only one is your Father who is in Heaven; neither be called masters because the one is your Master even the Christ but he who is greatest among you shall be your servant and whoever shall exalt himself shall be degraded; and he who shall humble himself shall be exalted; but disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you block the Kingdom of Heaven for men because you neither go in yourselves nor do you allow those who are entering to enter inside; disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you devour widows’ houses and make long prayers as a pretence therefore you shall receive the greater damnation; disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you cross land and sea to make one proselyte and when he is made you make him twice more the child of Hell than you yourselves; disaster to you you blind guides who say: Whoever shall swear by the temple it is nothing but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple is a debtor! You fools and blind ones because which is greater the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? and you say: Whoever shall swear by the altar it is nothing but whoever swears by the gift that is upon it he is guilty; You fools and blind ones because; which is greater the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? Therefore whoever shall swear by the altar swears by it and by all things on it and whoever shall swear by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it and he who shall swear by Heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it; disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you pay the tithes of mint and anise and cumin and have omitted the weightier matters of the law judgment mercy and faith; this you ought to have done and not left the other undone; you blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel; disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you make the outside of the cup and of the plate clean but inside they are full of extortion and excess; blind Pharisee first clean that which is inside the cup and plate so that the outside of it may be clean also; Disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you are like whitened tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly but are full of dead men’s bones and all the uncleanness inside; even so you also appear to men righteous outwardly but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity; disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the grave sites of the righteous and you say: If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets; therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are all the children of those who killed the prophets; Fulfil the stature of your fathers you serpents you generation of vipers; how can you escape the damnation of Hell? So note that I send you prophets and wise men and Scribes; and some of them you shall kill and crucify and some of them you shall beat in your synagogues and persecute from city to city so that on you may come all the righteous bloodshed on the Earth from the blood of righteous Abel until the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias whom you all killed between the temple and the altar; Truly I say to you all these things shall come on this generation
12. the extortion of loot, favours, values or special treatment from one section of the population to be given to the campaigning minority
13. How carefully you cleanse the outside of the cups and the platters while the spiritual-food vessels are filthy and polluted! You make sure to present a pious and holy appearance to the people, but your inner souls are filled with self-righteousness, covetousness, extortion, and all manner of spiritual wickedness
14. 18 "Woe upon you, scribes, Pharisees, and hypocrites! for you are scrupulous to cleanse the outside of the cup and the platter, but within there remains the filth of extortion, excesses, and deception
15. Complaints of extortion, murder and rape poured in to Arpello, who had taken up his quarters in Publius' palace, because the desperate councillors, doomed by his order, were holding the royal palace against his soldiers
16. This level of extortion might carry the weight to make a “big change candidate” whimp out to save lives under the open extortion by the corporatocracy which gets $700B and calls for a celebration, while the housing assets keep producing huge income or go into bankruptcy, and very very few houses are renegotiated for a new loan at half the value of the original note (which is still more than the property is worth), and was supposed to be the deal for banking and home owners in the TARP program
17. It was odd that Terence should attempt blackmail with something that was so highly publicized and that eventually led to Lord Ashburn’s exoneration; it defeated the entire purpose of extortion, unless Underwood had some crucial piece of confidential evidence that could confirm beyond any doubt the allegations against his subject
18. sanctioned, extortion of the population! The ruling elite has
19. to prostitution, she likes to try her hand at extortion
20. extortion? Where do my house payments come from? What about
21. extortion fee, I would then be set free, but yet, still suffer the
22. money and what amounts to extortion and then more money
23. extortion from the superlative
24. of the jaded extortion
25. and their extortion grew when
26. That price, $15,000, was simply extortion
27. This was the stuff of quality blackmail and extortion; the male celebrity and tart in one room, a pop diva and a young man, not her husband, in the other
28. Possible extortion money, do you think?”
29. Sounds like the whole of death, or Mafia extortion money to me
30. Would a man like Anton Clegg pay extortion?”
31. Anton Clegg and the third deceased Lou Strong are linked by Strong’s position of employment with Sir Alex having been the subject of a sinister threat of death, extortion, blackmail, or any combination of the three
32. Contrary to extortion by blackmail or corruption payments, which involved people that had something on their consciences and had been asking for trouble, extortion via protection racket basically touched innocent, hard working people who only wanted to earn a decent living for themselves and their families
33. As soon as it became “someone else's money” being spent almost all resistance to the outright extortion of medical providers was eroded
34. As Blake looked over his 5 step list for extortion he got a shitty grin on
35. $120! Fuck that for a game of extortion! That was a pretty big hole in our budget, but then again we hadn’t actually allocated any funds to this kind of thing, so any amount would have blown it out of the water, in truth
36. with him and hinted at extortion
37. To secure their continued collaboration in the procurement of his much-needed supply – the narcissist might resort to emotional extortion, straight blackmail, abuse, or misuse of his authority
38. The punishment shootings and the beatings stopped, and the extortion rackets dried up, and no one went round any more collecting protection money
39. A second and far more welcome result of this internecine warfare has been the almost total cessation of the many and profitable protection rackets and extortion scams which the terrorists were operating, and an end to punishment shootings and beatings
40. Haven’t I myself brought many reluctant folks onto the convenient track of compromise? And once they get over their inhibitions, these scoundrels become past-masters at extortion, don’t they? But then, they’re inconveniently called corrupt by the left-outs, sour grapes
41. Besides, even if the last vestiges of hesitancy were to prevent him from going the whole hog at extortion, then the need to foot the bed bills and all would ensure a vice like grip on his corrupted psyche
42. “You should remember the new commissioner of police has a deep hatred for checkpoint extortion from drivers
43. He has sacked several police officers in his former state because of extortion
44. This new commissioner hates hearing about officers involved in the extortion of money from drivers
45. The Tax as pox is when you perceive taxation as financial violence, terrorism, or legal extortion, and thus ransack public institutions and proclaim social anarchy – every gun for themselves – or you take to the streets and demand that the Gun Law that be tax the fucking rich to fix the tattered social net which enabled the escalation of their advantage
46. As a culture we preempted a night of extortion by threatened vandalism by offering free gifts to any who came requesting
47. Halloween preminds the child in masquerade, fear, threat and death, entitlement and extortion, solicitation and reception of beneficence, lust, whording, gluttony, and gastronomical excess
48. Expensive pain medication is the extortion and usury of buying and selling the relief from pain and release from suffering
49. Collecting pets is a surrogate for human extortion and execution
50. Harald wondered what new extortion would follow
