On the one hand, former Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze engaged in what amounts to blackmail.
And blackmail usually works better when the practitioners are seen as irrational and unpredictable.
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Such self-imposed blackmail presumes easier judgments when he is even better equipped than now.
Besides stealing electronic cash, a thief could exploit stored data for mischief - or blackmail.
Again, the motives of the informers are mixed: grudges and envy, but also fear and blackmail.
Unlike oligarchs in emerging economies, Wall Street's financiers do not use overt bribery or blackmail.
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He has fought off lawsuits (20 at last count), blackmail and even physical threats.
The American response to the Cuban crisis evidently persuaded Moscow of the futility of nuclear blackmail.
And, essentially, some British government officials came out and said, you know, that's blackmail.
Mr Rose, 33, of Camden and Jakir Uddin, 20, of Birmingham both deny blackmail.
Other notifiable offences - includes fraud and forgery, blackmail, drug offences, and dangerous driving.
That's also because Hague understands America's need for a missile defense against rogue-state blackmail.
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The problem is that a negotiate-then-validate strategy is just a prettified form of blackmail.
They are also charged with conspiracy to make threats to kill and conspiracy to blackmail.
Mr Yates was jailed with a charge of blackmail ordered to lie on file.
Mr Tadic described this as blackmail, and fought and won the election without his prime minister's support.
The U.S. wants similar protection against an accidental, unauthorized or rogue state launch, and against missile blackmail.
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After all, he admitted it as soon as he was questioned, so where was the blackmail threat?
Would that have been any less true if the United States itself had been subjected to Iraqi blackmail?
Romania's Supreme Court found Nastase guilty of committing blackmail while he was prime minister, from 2000 to 2004.
Mr Rose, 33, of Arlington Road, Camden, and Jakir Uddin, of Old Walsall Road, Birmingham, both deny blackmail.
Cornfield was jailed for two years in February 2006 for unlicensed money lending and nine counts of blackmail.
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The message was repeated by Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera, who called the DEA a "mechanism of political blackmail".
If the blackmail offer is rejected, the blackmailer may exercise his rights of free speech and publicize the secret.
"Staffordshire can't afford to pass up the opportunity to rebuild its schools despite the blackmail, " he told the conference.
In 2009, Klatten won a civil case against Helg Sgarbi, an ex-lover who tried to blackmail her for millions.
The blackmail arose after she starred in a reality show Billion Dollar Girl.
The pair were jailed for blackmail offences last December following a Ceop-led investigation.
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That's why the Republicans in Congress have resorted to extraordinary blackmail tactics to try to ram their program through.
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