blackmail

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Since the new law’s enactment, the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum, a Ugandan advocacy group, has documented more than 1,200 cases of blackmail and harassment.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Nobody can blackmail the European institutions," he said.

From BBC

I spoke to the late-life lovebirds about their process of marital manuscript-making: the good, the not so good and the blackmailing.

From Los Angeles Times

John Rogers was convicted of a lesser charge in a case that featured spycraft, online seduction and a blackmail scam.

From The Wall Street Journal

This is when “Heel” is at its most alluringly queasy, a dark commentary on all families as institutions inherently built on confinement and emotional blackmail.

From Los Angeles Times