Is that blackmail?

Doc, that's blackmail.

And he's holding it over my head.

Mr. Wilkes, who can't be mentally faithful to his wife... and won't be unfaithful to her technically.

Syria s Hijacked Struggle

With a sledgehammer?

But Tilde was blackmailing us.

You're blackmailing me into marrying you.

Letting them beat us.

Like me, they were all forcibly abducted.

Did you really think you could put that over on Kane?

The Special Rapporteurs called upon the Government to investigate the threats against and murder of Nizam Ahmed and Nadeen Ahmed and to investigate the threats against Akram Sheikh and ensure his safety.

Of course, the comic figure in all this is the longsuffering Mr. Wilkes.

A chemical weapons ban should not be hostage to nuclear weapons.

You want to be an Indian now? they said, finger on the trigger.

Yes, but why should they go to all this trouble to kidnap a harmless little governess?

We go over to the jail, and you let Joe go, or we tuck you 2 away and make a trade with Stumpy.

Still, if as you suggest, your actions can be construed as blackmail my actions?

And the other thing that happens is that we're all carrying around little Mary Poppins technology.

Hundreds of armed persons had occupied military and civilian facilities, taken hostages and killed scores of people.

And did I tell you, Caroline, that Capt. Butler... made a stupendous contribution to the Association for the Beautification... of the Graves of the Glorious Dead?

To spend the rest of my time worrying when I'll be caught up with... by some hoodlum holding a first mortgage on my life... payable on demand?

The hostage takers who had been rendered unconscious by the gas were not taken into custody, they were simply shot in the head.

Among the specific terrorist activities addressed were, for example, the incitement to commit terrorist acts, hostage taking and the prevention and combating of smuggling of radioactive sources.

Although he had reported the threats to the authorities, no steps were apparently taken to investigate the threats or provide him with protection.

4. Requests the Secretary General to take the steps necessary to ensure that mobility is not used as an instrument of coercion against staff and to ensure that appropriate monitoring and accountability measures are in place

15. Requests the Secretary General to take the steps necessary to ensure that mobility is not used as an instrument of coercion against staff and to ensure that appropriate monitoring and accountability measures are in place

So when they had a look at it afterward, there were only a couple of people who'd apparently been shot by the hostage takers or shot by the police forces coming in and trying to deal with the situation.

My delegation wishes to conclude by indicating that we will ensure that no attempt is made to use this resolution's adoption as a means of blackmailing the Organization.

Félix Faría Arias was detained on 8 March 1997 in Baruta, near Caracas, as he was about to enter his house, by two individuals identifying themselves as members of the Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services (DISIP).

In the resulting administrative vacuum, the CPN M have attempted to set up their own civil structures, often based on coercion and the extortion of exorbitant taxes aimed at sustaining the armed struggle.

A further complication concerns North Korea s nuclear aspirations. The North appears to be convinced that, with nuclear weapons, it can maintain complete diplomatic independence, and that China, fearing nuclear blackmail, will never abandon it.

As in any democracy, public criticism of Turkey s government policies is normal and healthy. But attempts by Gülen aligned members of the judiciary and the police force to blackmail, threaten, and illegally bargain with the government are unacceptable.

LONDON There is something rotten about the European Union s debate on migration. The continent s political leaders, paralyzed by the rise of anti immigrant populism, are turning their backs on desperately vulnerable people fleeing war, human rights abuses, and economic collapse.

Such blackmail might work for a suicide bomber. But Greece is just holding a gun to its own head and Europe does not need to care very much if it pulls the trigger.

The terrorist attacks of the past year, including the hostage taking in Beslan, Russian Federation, in September 2004 and the recent bombings in London in July 2005, once again brought the urgency of addressing the threat of international terrorism to the attention of the international community.

Most immediately, Kim s aim is to pressure Barack Obama s administration into weakening the US led sanctions against North Korea, having evidently decided that his dynasty has no future so long as the sanctions remain in place. To drive the point home, his regime has been refusing to attend multilateral talks.

Does any of you wish to have an orchard full of date palm trees and vines, and streams of running water and fruits of all kinds, and then old age should overtake him while his children are small, and a scorching whirlwind should smite and burn it down? Thus God makes His signs clear to you that you may reflect.

My homeland has become a place where too many people are victims, succumbing to a virus, or gunned down by a drug trafficker assaulted by a robber, shot by an ill trained policeman, or kidnapped by a member of a criminal gang. The flu epidemic, which probably began in the southern state of Veracruz, is yet another sign that all is not well in Mexico.

Would any of you like that he may own a garden of dates and grapes, with rivers flowing beneath it in it are all kinds of fruits for him and he reaches old age and has young children therefore a windstorm containing fire came to the garden, burning it? This is how Allah explains His verses to you, so that you may give thought.

Would any of you wish to have a garden of palms and vines, with rivers flowing beneath it, and all manner of fruit there for him, then old age smites him, and he has seed, but weaklings, then a whirlwind with fire smites it, and it is consumed? So God makes clear the signs to you haply you will reflect.

Fain would any of you that there be for him a garden of date palms and grape vines whereunder rivers flow end with every fruit therein for him, and that old age should befall him while he hath a progeny of weaklings, and that a whirlwind wherein is fire should then smite it, so that it is all consumed! In this wise Allah expoundeth unto you the signs that haply ye may ponder.

Thus does Allah make clear His Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses) to you that you may give thought.

Would anyone of you like to have a garden of palms and vines, under which rivers flow with all kinds of fruit in it for him, and old age has stricken him, and he has weak children then a tornado with fire batters it, and it burns down? Thus God makes clear the signs for you, so that you may reflect.

Would anyone of you wish that he should have a green garden of palm trees and vines, watered by canals and laden with all sorts of fruit and then it should be consumed by a fiery whirlwind at the very time when he himself has grown very old and his small children are too feeble to earn anything? Thus Allah makes His revelations clear and plain to you that you may ponder over them.