Word: blackmailed
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...fanatics hold that there can be no Jewish state until the Messiah comes--thus the entire state should be returned to the Arabs. Other religious groups force weak governing coalitions to accede to demands for the inclusion of religious laws into the state Sometimes, though, religion is used as blackmail. For example, a religious group recently complained to the mayor of an Israeli city that the city was violating certain religious laws. But instead of asking that these violations cease, they asked the city for more money for their Yeshiva, or religious school...
...bachelor, had long frequented gay bars in Cologne. Un der German law, however, homosexuality is not sufficient cause for dismissing officers. Worner justified his action by arguing that Kiessling had denied his homosexual tendencies; if Kiessling was homosexual and sought to conceal the fact, he would be liable to blackmail...
...Kiessling's lawyer, which was not made public but was excerpted in some German newspapers, Wörner said that the general had been mixing with "criminal elements" at seedy gay bars in Cologne for at least a dozen years, a practice that left him open to blackmail. Evidence gathered in an investigation, said Wörner, gave the defense ministry no choice but to dismiss the general...
...After a century of Pax Britannica and a short period of Pax Americana, the world has entered the phase of Pax Atomica. The only danger is the so-called peace movement in the West, which imperils the balance of power. This can lead to nuclear war or to nuclear blackmail and surrender of the West. Andropov's side will not relinquish its strength...
When she learns that a client is to receive a Nobel Prize for Eine Leerstelle, a book she composed years ago, May decides to make crime--blackmail, to be specific--pay some of the emotional as well as financial dividends she has never received for the work done. More than anything, Quayle, the Nobel Prize winner, stands for too many things. May can no longer stomach. The epitome of tweedy, trendy pseudo-intellectual sleaze, Quayle would be the last to write Eine Leerstelle; it is doubtful whether he could read it--yet he is the perfect success, giving the audience...