Extorted

Still he is just part of the problem, as regulation is also called for by the state Quango industry offake charities, that is funded by the state - in short extorted from you by tax: ❋ FIDO The Dog (2009)

California officials are seeking to recover some of the $30 billion Governor Gray Davis says Enron “extorted from the state. ” But that will be difficult because the company has filed for bankruptcy and sold off its energy-trading division. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Some of these purchases were financed by funds extorted from the well-to-do elite hacienda owners. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Davis, I'd sieze every private pipeline, powerline, and power plant and hold them hostage until the energy industry pays back every dime they extorted from the state. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Tempted by the great sums of money that had been extorted from the English, ❋ Robert Leighton (N/A)

The terms extorted from King Ferdinand by the Landgrave's victorious campaign, were also in their favour. ❋ Julius Koestlin (N/A)

In this connection it is instructive to pass in review the secret maneuvers by which the recognition of Poland's independence was, so to say, extorted from a Russian Minister, who was reputed at the time to be a Democrat of the Democrats. ❋ Emile Joseph Dillon (1894)

Wallace refused to resume the dignity he had resigned, the reinvestment of which had been extorted from the lords in the citadel. ❋ Unknown (1875)

Owing to the failure, of Muhammud Ali, to fulfil the ridiculously onerous terms extorted from him, by some of his native allies, during the siege of ❋ Unknown (1867)

It was at Mayence that the treasures unjustly extorted from the German Princes were restored to them. ❋ Arthur L��on Imbert De Saint-Amand (1867)

A deep sigh was again extorted from Orlando, and the good gossip remarking it, said: 'Ah, Sir, to be sure you may well sigh! ❋ Unknown (1793)

The truth contained in it is extorted from the lawyer's own mouth. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Photius was more resolved to punish, and less prompt to pardon: he flew to Ephesus; extorted from a trusty eunuch of his another the full confession of her guilt; arrested Theodosius and his treasures in the church of St. John the Apostle, and concealed his captives, whose execution was only delayed, in a secure and sequestered fortress of Cilicia. ❋ Unknown (1206)

In the polemic microscope, an atom is enlarged to a monster, and each party was skilful to exaggerate the absurd or impious conclusions that might be extorted from the principles of their adversaries. ❋ Unknown (1206)

But his firmest confidence was placed in the holy lance, 38 whose point was fashioned of the nails of the cross, and which his father had extorted from the king of ❋ Unknown (1206)

“I will spin her such a thread as she shall not easily unravel!” is said to have been the reply which indignation and conscious virtue extorted from the hero. ❋ Unknown (1206)

A large proportion of the taxes extorted from the people was detained and intercepted in their passage, though the foulest channels, to the treasury of Constantinople. ❋ Unknown (1206)

Rich in the accumulated treasures of the East, he extorted from the Romans an annual payment of thirty thousand pieces of gold; and the smallness of the sum revealed the disgrace of a tribute in its naked deformity. ❋ Unknown (1206)