Like some seedy racketeer, the delinquents in Pyongyang had extorted a generous payment in exchange for talks about giving up their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
This is even worse now: " Then I'd have a picture taken and dozens of glossies made. Anyone begging for money or trying to extort from me would receive a copy of the picture and nothing else."
Elsewhere in " Donbass" , for example, a businessman whom the militia are extorting is transferred to a holding room-where he finds a legion of other detainees pleading for help on their phones.
Jane did at last extort from her father an acknowledgment that the horses were engaged. She was therefore obliged to go on horseback and her mother attended her to the door with many cheerful prognostics of a bad day.
Groups such as the Richardsons, who were based in south London, and the Krays, in east London, mostly made their money extorting from local businesses and petty criminals.
14 Then some soldiers asked him, " And what should we do? " He replied, " Don't extort money and don't accuse people falsely--be content with your pay."
But instead of just barging in and rushing to the action, the movie takes its time as Neeson pretends to be a crooked cop trying to extort the criminals.
Al-Shabab militants frequently extort businesses in Mogadishu, raising tens of millions of dollars annually to sustain deadly activities in Somalia and neighboring countries.