How To Use Blackmail In A Sentence

She's using her police connections to blackmail money out of me.
I had never heard of Susan Ivy, suspected it was the alias my blackmailer used on his account. Miracles, Inc.
In the ensuing litigation, this was portrayed as blackmail - a serious offence that has a maximum prison term of 14 years.
His mother Jacqueline resorted to emotional blackmail to try to make him stop.
The threat of all Darlington Catholics voting against him was the most astute piece of political blackmail I have ever seen.

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Next thing you know, she's on "The Today Show" calling the blackmailer's bluff by tearfully going public with the pictures. CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2007
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.
Mother wouldn't hesitate to blackmail someone for money.
He had film in there to blackmail a whole battalion of US military officers. BLACK EAGLES
The resulting film, Blackmail, was begun as a silent and then in large part reshot to take advantage of the new sound technology.
Having used sex, drugs, money or alcohol to get a hold on someone, a counter-intelligence officer can then move on to blackmail when they want to put more of a squeeze on their supply of information.
Using the picture of a sad little kid in their advertisement seems like emotional blackmail.
He said: ‘Strictly, to knock on doors and demand with menaces is blackmail.’
Our solidarity, adventuresomeness and aplomb are the acknowledgment to the blackmail of terror ", it was hosted by actress-activist Nandita Das and directed by one-film old Feroz Abbas Khan. The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public
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.
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.
Everywhere, workforces are played off against one another and blackmailed into making concessions with the threat that production will be moved.
The blackmailer had a hold over him.
In a position of authority, a weakness for the opposite sex leaves you open to blackmail.
That's the way he characterised your approach and he said that was akin to blackmail.
The mood lightened, but the word “blackmail” hung in the air, dark and silty. The Bird House
He had in fact suggested several times that it might be necessary to pay blackmail to silence the burglars who broke into party headquarters.
Indeed, even the general survey of the results of nuclear blackmail efforts against non-nuclear states by nuclear states provides meagre nourishment to the claim about their value as coercive political instruments.
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.
On the other hand, if their hearts were really set on her services, they could all too easily blackmail her. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
How appropriate that his blackmailer was a TV producer. Tamar Abrams: Remember Privacy?
Many elements in its tale of crime, rape, blackmail and luxury beyond dreams are duplicated in the Fujian affair.
The blackmailer is the sex offender …. ooops, I mean a professional researcher. Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 10/02/09
She bribed me with pasta and blackmailed me into writing a synopsis on my last night in Hawaii.
So skinflints and kids can get other people to pay for their phone calls through emotional blackmail.
Other gangs have resorted to blackmailing doctors monthly in return for their personal safety.
Ngema said he wanted the commission to take steps against the police officers who "blackmailed" him into leaving the country, and to compensate him for time lost and pain received while outside the country. ANC Daily News Briefing
They're professionals, Drago, they don't give in to intimidation and blackmail. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
Extortion, blackmail, protection money are part of the daily life of the slums.
In a position of authority, a weakness for the opposite sex leaves you open to blackmail.
A person's power to confer rights on others by his consent does, however, expose him to blackmail and abuse.
Sultans, rajahs, maharajahs, datus, etc., under ordinary circumstances have been and still are in most of the unprotected States unable to control the chiefs under them, who have independently levied taxes and blackmail till the harassed cultivators came scarcely to care to possess property which might at any time be seized. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
With regard to the former, I'm not convinced that everyone with access to potentially threatening information will refrain from using that information abusively, via blackmail, bigotry, red-lining and so forth.
Wetherby may have decided to feather his nest by blackmail.
She had already tried emotional blackmail to stop him leaving.
In a position of authority, a weakness for the opposite sex leaves you open to blackmail.
It was a stupid thing to say considering the threat of blackmail right there in front of me.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS - John Travolta described the moments before his son's death in the Bahamas as he testified Wednesday against two people accused of trying to blackmail him with private information about the rescue effort. Undefined
As usual, the obstructionist GOP puts PARTY first, America and Americans last - taking yet another opportunity to put their "pro-life" anti-abortionist demands out there as blackmail: Abortion once again roils health care debate
Had he videotaped their escapades with threats of blackmail?
The nasty thing about a blackmailer is that his starting point is usually the truth.
If you're being blackmailed by someone, turning around and blackmailing him back is just as illegal as the first crime.
A few days after the industry's blatant blackmail, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel again reiterated that a public option was not "the defining piece of health care. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: The Public Option is Dead as a Doornail
It's all a matter of good, solid business practice; a matter of turning a spiritual profit and of responding prudently to spiritual blackmail.
The prosecutor in this case, the district attorney from here in New York, says that the crime went down between September 9th and 30th of this year, and that in fact Halderman had tried to blackmail David Letterman by submitting what he called a screenplay treatment, saying that he needed a large chunk of money and referring to Letterman's "loving son" as well. CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2009
Then that complicated yarn about conspiracies and blackmail--it just didn't ring true, in Crook's opinion. STAGE FRIGHT
Other charges for blackmail, witness intimidation and perverting the course of justice were dropped earlier this year.
He continued to avoid answering my question of how he had been blackmailed into going to Italy, and our communications were more letters between friends than anything else.
Deranged, self serving, sexually driven and yet likeable Wayne Ogden is our unscrupulous procurer and criminal ready to triumph with his blackmail schemes and the like. Carole Mallory: Review: The Adjustment by Scott Phillips
His son plays him like a fiddle, using him as an excuse and emotionally blackmailing him into submission.
He used the children to blackmail me; he threatened to take them away from me.
NOTE2: WANG CHING-FENG Minister of Justice, also said in public in front of cameras that the Justice will not allow itself to be "blackmailed" by a hunger strike. Ten Ten Most Wanted List to be Abolished
I trudged to my room, all the way muttering about how she would blackmail me with this little bit of information.
Results for the blackmailer, that is, but misery for everyone else. Gallup: Obama Leads Hillary Nationally By Three Points
Once the hackers gain access to systems they download proprietary information, customer databases, and credit card information before trying to blackmail victims.
Unwilling girls might be subjected to threats, ranging from physical violence and being locked up, to subtle emotional blackmail.
I make statements that I know are deeply hurtful and unfair and essentially commit emotional blackmail.
Every state and government in the world is now vulnerable to the caprices and blackmails of financial markets.
When her cuckolded husband blackmailed him, Hamilton paid hush money to keep his wife from learning of the dalliance. A Short History of Political Suicide
This emotional blackmail has the effect of emasculating the Left.
The run for the presidency is no joke, rife with political chicanery, espionage and blackmail.
The strange man tried to blackmail the clerk into helping him draw the money, but he failed.
He was looking for information he might blackmail me with; he knows who I am, who my father is.
Why can't the majority simply call the blackmailer's bluff - let them filibuster until the cows come home and let the public outrage over their despicable, undemocratic behavior build up over the weeks. Do or Die: The Six Senators Who Will Decide the Fate of Health Care Reform
Charges of blackmail peaked in the inter-war decades of the 1920s and 1930s and have been declining since.
However, the hawks would say that's just giving in to blackmail, rewarding bad behaviour.
This piece of information isn't enough to blackmail him.
I have some blackmail pictures of him running around my house in my ballet tutu from when he was seven.
The blackmailer will have to be bought off, or he'll ruin your good name.
He's a wandering laborer with a penchant for black-out drinking, saddled with a blackmailing alcoholic groupie played by Thomas Mitchell.
These crimes include terrorism, money laundering, illegal drug and human trafficking, illicit weapons trading, blackmailing and embezzlement of EU funds.
But he urged the company to stand firm so potential investors knew employers ‘will not be blackmailed by irresponsible threats from unions’.
Mr. Ali, through his attorney, complained that he was "blackmailed" into coming to the hearing. Sept. 11 Defendants Drag Feet at Hearings
In cases of forced marriage the force can be emotional blackmail or other forms of psychological pressure.
I do think something should be done about MI and FL, but blackmail and strong-arming is exactly what puts off so many of Obama's supporters from supporting Clinton. Sources: Clinton, Obama supporters discussing exit strategies
In a position of authority, a weakness for the opposite sex leaves you open to blackmail.
ADAM speak for yourself, stop the blackmail you are dead wrong looks like mcsain should hop abord the plane with obama he is following him state to state and town to town to campaign what is wrog mcsain? trying to steal votes McCain appeals to independents with environment pitch
Nobody would be as ungentlemanly as to call it blackmail, but they are open to political manipulation.
That being said, know that if you ever try to blackmail me with this information, I will take you to the Tower myself.
Was there an intention to try to blackmail her in some way as well as Derek?
The tactics employed can range from overt bullying to subtle emotional blackmail.
Grigorov had spent time in jail for illegal possession of firearms and had pending court cases for robbery, blackmailing and pimping.
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.
But in fact, what he really should be concerned about is not "blackball," but rather "blackmail. Latest Articles
But we had to reshoot the scenes at the villa between Judy and the blackmailer, after Arthur's heart attack, with - thingummy - Jeremy Fox. THE SOUND OF MURDER
From stage and pulpit, from press and platform, they hastened to promulgate it, until every silly girl or woman who gets herself into a scrape uses it as a defense measure; and not infrequently is it employed as a weapon of blackmail and revenge. Madeleine: An Autobiography
Instead of "blackmailing" Congress, President Obama is "greenmailing" Congress by forcing them to comply with his order that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulate greenhouse gasses. Latest Articles
He broke her by the threat of blackmail.
I have also seen under-exercised dogs, spaniels in particular, lie around in a depressed and emotionally blackmailing way, glancing with sad brown eyes out of the window until you give in and throw yourself into a gale force 9.
Their policy is playing to the [Kenyan public] gallery, which we call activism diplomacy," he said, calling the warnings on travel bans part of "a big bully blackmail system. U.S. Ups Criticism, Pressure On Kenya
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.
There is already the offence of blackmail, which penalizes the making of unwarranted demands with menaces, and this should be the starting-point.
While Bush officials openly sue for peace, they continue to equate any kind of concession with ‘blackmail.’
We are blackmailed into believing the money is needed for education and the elderly, but every year we pay more and receive less.
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.
Do you think any politician would be willing to admit ‘Yes, I was threatened and blackmailed into supporting government policy that I didn't agree with’?
When the murder victim discovered the affair, he began blackmailing her, thus giving him motivation for carrying out the murder.
Friday, saying they would not be "blackmailed" into returning to the negotiating table. ANC Daily News Briefing
The unworthy thought crossed my mind that her present misbehaviour rendered her eminently blackmailable where Popplewell was concerned - but it was a purely Pickwickian reflection, you understand. THE NUMBERS
Nowhere is it easier to blackmail than in the criminal underworld and the grey areas of conduct that surround it.
Surely the administration would not resort to blackmailing us into allowing the use of the airport to further their own ends?
He could use bribery, blackmail, and other forms of coercion to keep his dishonored promises in circulation.
A pox doctor's clerk knew all the personal details of the patients, so he had ample opportunities to supplement his income by blackmail.
Money was being subscribed liberally by persons of good family who hoped for political preferment and could not get it from the old parties, and by corporations tired of being "blackmailed" by Kelly and The Conflict
Damn McIllvanney, I thought, and damn his blackmail.
Investigators said the plan was for Green to pose his victim for pictures, which he would use to blackmail her into having what he called consensual sex with him once a week as "a treat. WESH.com - Local News
The tactics employed can range from overt bullying to subtle emotional blackmail.
Another topic whose exposure might be threatened is the dictator's use of oil blackmail and bribery in influencing a wide variety of nations.
For instance, the Friar tells an aggressive story about a crooked Summoner, a sort of process-server, who runs a string of call-girls and operates a follow-up blackmail racket, relying on the threat of denunciation to the church courts. Chaucer's Road Show Revisited
Ford had been blackmailing a gay naval officer.
These connected crimes include corruption of state officials, forgery, use of fraud to obtain false certificates, blackmail, gunrunning, drug trafficking and money laundering.
It fostered an atmosphere of intimidation and blackmail within which realism came to sound like racism.
He thought I was accepting Alyssa's bribes or letting her blackmail me into getting them back together.
To call this graymail or blackmail is to demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of criminal jurisprudence.
Two "business agents" who have been charged with blackmailing and extortionate practices will be ousted from office by the Upholsterers' Union if the present plans of the leaders are carried out.
The threat of all Darlington Catholics voting against him was the most astute piece of political blackmail I have ever seen.
She recounted the harassments and blackmail threats by Atkins and his undercover colleague.
As well as being able to impose military discipline on members, the organisation can raise millions of pounds through robberies, smuggling, extortion, blackmail.
The offence of blackmail broadens the current offence of extortion by certain threats.
If only the plot didn't sound so hokey: retired thief Nick Wells is running a jazz lounge when he's blackmailed into doing one more heist by a young crim upstart (Norton).
We've been blackmailed with this threat for years.
He's a kind of maleficent Candide, who blackmails, lies, betrays, cheats, fucks, namedrops, marries and blunders his way to the top – and assumes no one will notice. Capital Pundits Parodied: An Anti-Mensch's Faux Memoirs
Soon he finds himself caught up in a web of blackmail, corruption, and multiple murders, which start piling up in rapid succession.
In addition if unionism is making decisions primarily predilected to avoid the IRA going back to violence, it is being blackmailed as well as conned. Slugger O'Toole
He could use bribery, blackmail, and other forms of coercion to keep his dishonored promises in circulation.
If someone does happen to talk to you about their problems, you will use it as blackmail.
Ford had been blackmailing a gay naval officer.
It was entertaining, but it was not diplomacy, and, sooner or later, Louis was certain to be 'blackmailed' by some underling in his service. Historical Mysteries
He used his Mafia links to blackmail politicians and build his influence.
If they are aware of their rights, they are either coerced or emotionally blackmailed into giving up their share in the interest of maintaining harmonious relations with their families.
He had film in there to blackmail a whole battalion of US military officers. BLACK EAGLES
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.
Needless to say, if I ever wanted to make some quick money and blackmail someone, he would be the guy.
She says she was virtually blackmailed into giving up her claim to the property.
Because the United States allowed itself to be "blackmailed" in 1994 through the so-called Framework Agreement we entered into with North Korea at that time. Combatting Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction
There is emotional blackmail over custody of the daughter.
I didn't see any indication that anyone was being threatened or blackmailed or otherwise induced against their will into serving in this capacity.
That was a terrible case of blackmail in the paper today.
He claimed his former employee try to blackmail him and said he paid her what he called extortion money and was afraid to go to authorities. CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2006
I have enough of my own guilt, without this emotional blackmail!
It is unethical to effectively blackmail a player into giving up his rights with the threat of removal from the team.
He's been in a lot of trouble - drugs, guns, blackmail - the list is endless .
He was jailed for four years for blackmailing gay businessmen.
His Hoover is more to be censured than pitied, an obsessive-compulsive creep with the vocal rhythms of a ball-peen hammer and a gimlet-eyed gift for blackmail. 'J. Edgar': Hoover's Life, in a Dramatic Vacuum
It may work in a rough-and-ready way, since the governments represented on the security council will be bribed, blackmailed, browbeaten and bludgeoned into submission over the next fortnight.
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.
The nasty thing about a blackmailer is that his starting point is usually the truth.
Extortion, blackmail and protection money are part of the daily life of the slums.
Disobedience led to punishment, including beatings, imprisonment, blackmail, and death threats.
There was no apparent motive for the attack and the drivers say they have not been blackmailed or threatened by triads.
Nobody wants the horrific slaughterhouse of war or the unbridled blackmail of terrorism but nobody wants to see evil flourish either.
He played a federal prosecutor who got shoved out of the Sonny Corinthos case (the character was a himbo with a blackmailable, hanky-panky past). Special FX (’90s Edition) : Scrubbles.net
Any relationship that has to depend on emotional blackmail can't be a healthy one.
‘Now this is really blackmail,’ the villain expostulates.
I really don't know why, but I every once in a while I got hold of information I could use to blackmail people.
There's a tightrope to walk between honesty and hysteria, emotional blackness and emotional blackmail.
Stephen Solarz: "[A] s lobbyist ... acted as conduit to deliver or launder contribution and other briberies to certain members of Congress, but also in pressuring outside Congress, and including blackmail, in certain members of Congress. Brad Friedman: FBI Whistleblower: Hastert, Burton, Blunt, Other Members of Congress 'Bribed, Blackmailed'
The liberals use this fact to blackmail him, trying to force him to vote for their candidate.
It is, after all, free information usable for blackmail, theft or provoking a crippling system breakdown.
Now, the unions have taken over the role of blackmailing the work force.
A highly skilled thief is blackmailed into pulling a diamond heist when his daughter is kidnapped by an international terrorist.
It's a clear case of blackmail!
Having used sex, drugs, money or alcohol to get a hold on someone, a counter-intelligence officer can then move on to blackmail when they want to put more of a squeeze on their supply of information.
To stay in the house, she invents the story that she is a runaway juvenile delinquent, and kind of blackmails the goodhearted Prof. Patterson, who is all worried about propriety.
She says she was virtually blackmailed into giving up her claim to the property.
Computer crimes are frequently online variants of established crimes, like fraud and blackmail.
In order to manipulate and blackmail his boss, Jack beats himself up by making it appear that his boss was responsible.
The blackmailers exacted a total of $100 000 from their victims.
The book tells the story of “young, independent Laguna Beach-based marijuana kingpins are blackmailed into working for the Baja Cartel after one of their threesome is kidnapped.” Oliver Stone To Direct Don Winslow’s Drug Cartel Thriller Savages | /Film
I cannot believe that after having run such an exceptional, thoughtful and for the most part 'pitch perfect' campaign that Obama would make the collosal mistake of being 'blackmailed' into accepting this divisive, self-centered, tone-deaf and (I'm increasingly convinced) not entirely stable person as a VP candidate. Obama Gets New Supers, With A Switcher From Hillary
Like everyone else, subscriber L.F. was mystified by the Knicks hiring of Isiah Thomas (he's since been unhired), "Isiah must have the same blackmailing information on Jim Dolan that Glen Sather does!!! Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories
I know you didn't do it; and now I've met you, I can't imagine you submitting to blackmail. STAGE FRIGHT
She was blackmailing people for money, but I didn't find any names or any dirty information, just that.
He was blackmailed by an enemy agent .
Maybe I could blackmail her into letting me listen to it by threatening to inform the world of her favourite film.
The Kremlin possesses all of the records of that era; if the Patriarch takes too independent a line, it has the means to embarrass or blackmail him. Moscow’s New (But Cloudy) Day
For drama, the old boyfriend shows up with blackmail on his mind.
Speakers stressed the difference between the healthy tradition of arranged marriage, where the couple genuinely consent, and forced marriage, where they are threatened or blackmailed by their families.
Dreze in a footnote suggests that nuclear blackmail against non-nuclear states has been credible and effective.
When Fosca abases herself in front of the hero crying, ‘one loves a dog, an animal ‘she is both using emotional blackmail and exposing her raw passion.’
In the ensuing litigation, this was portrayed as blackmail - a serious offence that has a maximum prison term of 14 years, and which is defined as making an unwarranted demand with a view to gain, with menaces.
The offence of blackmail is broadened from the current offence of extortion by certain threats.
‘I feel as though you're blackmailing or bribing me,’ I said ruefully.
It is, after all, free information usable for blackmail, theft or provoking a crippling system breakdown.
More seriously, she argues that he was blackmailed into rejecting the comedy by a bluestocking who threatened to reveal that the great actor-manager's protege was his illegitimate son.
The foreign minister declared in a statement to the press that he would never submit to blackmail.
Many of us are convinced that the dictator will acquire nuclear weapons fairly soon and subject any nation to nuclear blackmail.
The strange man tried to blackmail the clerk into helping him draw the money, but he failed.
I refuse to be blackmailed into making a quick decision.
They're professionals, Drago, they don't give in to intimidation and blackmail. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
I said computer crackers were going to cause some serious damage and predicted they'd try blackmail.
It just seemed like they wanted information, and it turned out that blackmailing a student was the easiest way to go about it.
The opportunities for police bargaining, threats, blackmail, and coercion to become an informer are unlimited.
Thereupon he engages in what can only be described as a grubby piece of attempted blackmail of his party leader which was rightly rebuffed. Miraj set to become a Mirage
There was nothing he could do to stop her, except for using the emotional blackmail which she seemed to have become so good at.

How To Use Blackmail In A Sentence

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