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.
Though Secretary Hamilton turned him down, he did pay blackmail from his personal funds.
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.
"The hotel manager can blackmail you for the rest of your life, " he said.
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.
It is not even clear that Mr Kim would be content for his blackmail to succeed.
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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That video exposed a blackmail scandal that lead to the eventual arrest of 11 high-ranking city officials.
Not only would doing so assure that Europe remained vulnerable to nuclear blackmail, or worse, from Iran.
After all, he admitted it as soon as he was questioned, so where was the blackmail threat?
Thus the entire narrative about the embargo and the need to protect ourselves against foreign policy blackmail was never true.
Even in this post-Cold War era, foreign intelligence agents constantly look for opportunities for deception, propaganda, and blackmail.
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.
Will we cede blackmail power to rogue states around the world by failing to develop missile defense systems?
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