shakedown

They are already lobbying here claiming the sky is falling because they don't have unfettered access to shakedown tourists anymore.

And it's not the first time someone has called him a shakedown artist or mentioned his out-of-wedlock child.

Bonus question: How much money have you extorted from various people and companies over the years of practicing your shakedown scheme?

Recurring bills and email reminders are especially helpful to make the monthly shakedown unnecessary.

Oh, not to mention also had some militias shakedown workers when they protest a lack of pay, late pay or basic rights.

It looks like just another shakedown of a highly successful foreign company that the regulatory bureaucracy regards as a threat of some kind.

I don't even really think about anything new until others have put it through a shakedown for at least a year.

I think there will be a shakedown of these things and we'll look back at this time as being needlessly reckless.

And Rust is still going through its shakedown cruise.

On the contrary if it's a shakedown of sorts I would be questionable.

Personally, I've stuck with VMWare because the licensing costs are low enough that I'm never sufficiently motivated to spend time on a Virtualbox shakedown.

The thing is, if you look at how the industry has been treated from a right-wing standpoint, the administration is engaged in an apparently never-ending shakedown of Wall Street motivated by the President's ardent desire to destroy capitalism.

The comparison it does make is a reasonable one: "a modern day version of a mob shakedown".