But with two-thirds of plans finalised, the current redistricting process looks like an incumbent-protection racket.
This is the equivalent of blackmail, a sort of international protection racket.
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Others hover like helicopter moms over wayward children as Elizabeth Warren, heading the new Consumer Financial Protection Racket, err Bureau seems to relish.
"It was a protection racket just like those run 40 years ago in London's nightclubs, " says Michael Deats, detective superintendent of the U.K.'s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit.
Opposition leader Tony Abbott accused Ms Gillard, who initially stood by Mr Thomson, of running a "protection racket" for him, says the BBC's Nick Bryant in Sydney.
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Under their influence, the U.N. has morphed into a protection racket for the world's despots and, effectively, an abettor of those who would supplant liberty with corrupt authoritarianism, or worse.
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The cowbirds' dastardly tricks do not stop at this protection racket, either, for a fifth of those warbler nests that had never had cowbird eggs in them also got destroyed.
As you might expect, there are already workarounds out there that can bypass Protect DVD: SlySoft reportedly updated its AnyDVD software recently as a direct response to this protection racket.
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At the time the consumer organisation Citizens Advice dubbed the sale of PPI policies a "protection racket", saying they were often too expensive and failed to provide the level of cover that customers thought they were getting.
Software Assurance is a clever protection racket.
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And that dynamic, I think, can be argued to lead ultimately to marriage as a primitive protection racket, which means women cook for men and what men provide for women is protection of the food through a social arrangement.
While such a stringent requirement will entail some dislocation in the Russian economy, it is far better to deal with the direct consequences of that hardship than to pay the multiplied costs that would be precipitated were the West to acquiesce in the Russian protection racket.
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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.
Ethnic conflicts are being stimulated or abetted by Moscow as part of a classic Stalinist divide-and-conquer strategy or as a form of Capone-style "protection" racket, or both.
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Recently, a member of Parliament from Quebec, Yvan Loubier, was given 24-hour police protection after he had exposed a racket in his constituency.
Mr Dutta said a wildlife protection society, Green Heart Nature, helped the police in busting the racket.
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