Asbestos defendants have complained for years that they are the victims of a multibillion-dollar shakedown.
The team aims to fire up the cars on 25 January before a shakedown at Silverstone.
The Zetas approach a town, a city, or a state as a shakedown opportunity.
When tech companies die, their patent caches live on, often falling into the hands of shakedown artists.
Maldonado also may have been caught up in a shakedown by Mexican police who were seeking a bribe.
After the initial shakedown period, and until recently, the new Euro seemed to draw strength from an underperforming European economy.
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In any other context, this might be seen for what it is: a shakedown driven by fear of the unknown.
An Arizona sheriff who has spent more than 40 years along the Mexican border said Maldonado's case probably was a shakedown.
Facebook is getting a shakedown from the city of Menlo Park, California, the Silicon Valley town the company now calls home.
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Prop. 37 would not only create a large new bureaucracy but also encourages bounty-hunter, or shakedown, litigation to enforce the rules.
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It appears that dissident employees are involved in what could be seen as an ambulance chasing shakedown scheme to profit from their allegations.
These are transparent efforts to shakedown companies for settlements, with no intention of engaging in the expensive process of litigation culminating in a trial.
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While I have certainly made mistakes, this threat feels like a shakedown, and I will defend myself to the full extent of the law.
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Now, a cynic might suggest that this review, coming in the heat of the election season, is little more than a campaign finance shakedown.
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During a routine shakedown six months after his detainment, guards confiscated an accordion file in his cell containing more than a hundred pages of drawings and notes.
That brought Stade to within seven points at 28-21, before youngster Flanagan showed his composure with the late drop-goal that could prove crucial in the final group shakedown.
For example, the group tries to contain "Shakedown Street, " a term borrowed from a Grateful Dead song for the inevitable black market that pops up in parking areas.
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That's the awkward thing about this great shakedown in Cannes.
The Merc compared the situation to a Mafia shakedown.
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Like most settlements nobody appears to be overjoyed with the terms: Banks view it as a shakedown by politically ambitious attorneys general across the country, and other critics think it too light.
The real effect of the CRA was to give arbitrary regulatory powers to federal agencies and to give shakedown powers to any community group that could threaten to bring a complaint against a target bank.
In other words, there was no shakedown.
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While many of them are filed in Delaware, an increasing number are being filed in other states where judges may be less experienced at telling the difference between a meritorious case and a simple shakedown for fees.
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About three months into his term, during a shakedown following the murder of an inmate, prison officials turned up a makeshift knife in his cell. (He denies that it was his.) They gave him a year in isolation.
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Downplaying the events might be standard PR practice and they may well be minor bumps in the ongoing shakedown of the new plane but I think Boeing needs to reevaluate its strategy in light of the fact that it has an airplane problem .
The cynical way in which this shakedown was accomplished is typical of Putin's heavy-handed behavior on other matters, from the protection racket he and his Chinese allies are running for the North Koreans, Sudanese and Iranians at the UN to the liquidation of his enemies at home and abroad.
Morse shepherds buyers through the process, monitors each boat's progress almost daily, and then--this is something you probably won't find at Chris-Craft--delivers the boat personally. (He's driven them as far as the Chesapeake Bay.) Your first ride in your new skiff is a shakedown cruise with the personable Morse himself, who ends up remaining in touch with many owners for years afterward.
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