Lexicographical Neighbors of Extortive
Literary usage of Extortive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1888)
"After the commission had exhausted the bureaucracy, and money was still needed,
private individuals became the prey of their inquisitorial and extortive ..."
2. Model, Myth, Or Miracle?: Reassessing the Role of Governments in the East by Beatrice Weder (1999)
"In Brunetti and Weder (1998) we draw a distinction between extortive ...
extortive corruption is one-sided and can occur when the official uses her ..."
3. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1906)
"At the Essex Quarter Sessions in 1698 the Grand Jury reports as under:— " We also
present Francis Stern, Clerk, for demanding and taking extortive fees, ..."
4. National Drug Control Policy: Interdiction Efforts in Florida and the edited by J. Dennis Hastert (2001)
"The balance achieved has for all practical purposes eliminated extortive hiring
practices and, in turn, has vastly improved the standard of living for those ..."
5. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1877)
"... punishment upon such bailiffs as had been prosecuted for such offences, ' yet
they are noe way reformed, and such extortive practices noe way forborne. ..."
6. Quarter Sessions from Queen Elizabeth to Queen Anne: Illustrations of Local by Alexander Henry Abercromby Hamilton (1878)
"... punishment upon such bailiffs as had been prosecuted for such offences, " yet
they are noe way reformed, and such extortive practices noe way forborne. ..."
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