Sentence Examples

  • Having been convicted of extortion, he committed suicide (Cicero, De Legibus, i.
  • Provincial governors were kept under strict supervision; extortion was practically unheard of; the jus Latii was bestowed upon several communities; special officials were instituted for the control of the finances; and the emperor's interest in provincial affairs was shown by his personal assumption of various municipal offices.
  • Undue claims on the part of the tax collectors were aggravated by the extortion of the public officials.
  • The club was suppressed by the dominant "Caps," who also sought to ruin Sprengtporten financially by inciting his tenants in Finland to bring actions against him for alleged extortion, not in the ordinary courts but in the riksdag itself, where Sprengtporten's political adversaries would be his judges.
  • Under this system the oppression and extortion practised under native rule gave place to a carefully regulated method of assessment.
 
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