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exorbitant
1. exorbitant fee for the privilege of using that portion of the
2. If it is fixed precisely at the lowest market price, it ruins, with honest people who respect the laws of their country, the credit of all those who cannot give the very best security, and obliges them to have recourse to exorbitant usurers
3. The freest importation of foreign cattle could have no other effect than to hinder those breeding countries from taking advantage of the increasing population and improvement of the rest of the kingdom, from raising their price to an exorbitant height, and from laying a real tax upon all the more improved and cultivated parts of the country
4. The owners of bank money being then all eager to draw it out of the bank, in order to have it in their own keeping, the demand for receipts might raise their price to an exorbitant height
5. Our ancestors seem to have imagined, that the people would buy their corn cheaper of the farmer than of the corn merchant, who, they were afraid, would require, over and above the price which he paid to the farmer, an exorbitant profit to himself
6. The seignorage, if it was not exorbitant, would add to the bullion the whole value of the duty; because, the government having everywhere the exclusive privilege of coining, no coin can come to market cheaper than they think proper to afford it
7. If the duty was exorbitant, indeed, that is, if it was very much above the real value of the labour and expense requisite for coinage, false coiners, both at home and abroad, might be encouraged, by the great difference between the value of bullion and that of coin, to pour in so great a quantity of counterfeit money as might reduce the value of the government money
8. The profit of those merchants would be almost equally exorbitant and oppressive
9. In this case the number and dispersed situation of the different traders renders it impossible for them to enter into any general combination, and their competition is sufficient to hinder them from making very exorbitant profits
10. The profits of the trade, therefore, which France and England carry on with their colonies, though no doubt somewhat higher than if the competition were free to all other nations, are, however, by no means exorbitant ; and the price of European goods, accordingly, is not extravagantly high in the greater past of the colonies of either of those nations
11. Have the exorbitant profits of the merchants of Cadiz and Lisbon augmented the capital of Spain and Portugal ? Have they alleviated the poverty, have they promoted the industry, of those two beggarly countries? Such has been the tone of mercantile expense in those two trading cities, that those exorbitant profits, far from augmenting the general capital of the country, seem scarce to have been sufficient to keep up the capitals upon which they were made
12. Their capital, which never exceeded £744,000, and of which £50 was a share, was not so exorbitant, nor their dealings so extensive, as to afford either a pretext for gross negligence and profusion, or a cover to gross malversation
13. Government, by establishing an administration under their own immediate inspection, of the same kind with that which the farmer establishes, might at least save this profit, which is almost always exorbitant
14. In such cases, the farmer, instead of one, levies two exorbitant profits upon the people; the profit of the farmer, and the still more exorbitant one of the monopolist
15. The taxes upon both commodities are exorbitant
16. loaf of bread, that still sold like crazy even at this exorbitant price
17. In Rome, as in all other ancient republics, the poor people were constantly in debt to the rich and the great, who, in order to secure their votes at the annual elections, used to lend them money at exorbitant interest, which, being never paid, soon accumulated into a sum too great either for the debtor to pay, or for any body else to pay for him
18. Either they demand an exorbitant ransom in gold or, less pleasantly, sell the child into some sort of slavery, which is precisely why the little one was brought to Water-Down
19. Any (American) company operating abroad and selling cheaply made products at ―home‖ at an exorbitant profit, should, in my opinion, be hit with the stiffest import tariffs imaginable to help defray the social costs incurred by the taxpayer for individuals who have otherwise lost their jobs or are (under-employed)
20. I would also like to briefly explore the writer‘s charges of exorbitant defense spending in time of ―peace‖
21. The exchange rate is ridiculous, not to mention the exorbitant inflation
22. The unbelievably high tariffs Thailand puts on imported drink precludes appreciation of good quality wines but Mont Clair has sneaked in at, a high price for me, but not exorbitant
23. exorbitant profits pouring into the coffers of corporate America has
24. expensive to cut CO2 emissions radically than to pay the costs of adaptation to increased temperatures,” and “Since the Kyoto Protocol will have negligible effects on climate change and the exorbitant cost of implementing it ($150 billion/year) represents a
25. But the price would be high as the witch was famous throughout the kingdom for the exorbitant prices she charged
26. While Roger was trying to solve new financial difficulties and close the two bookstores, she was asking him for an exorbitant amount of child support for Chad and Manrique
27. This contributed to Ingalls’ loss of overhauls—besides the exorbitant cost overruns
28. The Random House Webster’s Dictionary defines usury as the charging of exorbitant interest above the legal rate for lending money
29. They imposed exorbitant tax on the farmers and weavers, cut off hands of weavers and artisans, destroyed existing educational system, created divisions among castes, religions, regional languages, and ruled over the country simply to drain the wealth of the ‘Crown Jewel’ that was India
30. People had to buy salt made in factories controlled by the British at an exorbitant price
31. The British Government in India and the people of UK were hurting because revenues from exorbitant taxation on liquor, salt, and cloth had dried up
32. They would let poor farm workers till the land at an exorbitant price
33. We read about exorbitant compensation packages for chief executive officers of companies and politicians with huge unreported deposits in foreign banks
34. On the contrary, she had not stopped reproaching and repeating that we were a load, an abomination and that the expenses of our maintenance were exorbitant and that she had had to resort to bank loans to compensate the deficit
35. dollars, an exorbitant amount, suddenly produced permission
36. At one time or another systems of exorbitant overcharge were practiced upon the common people, especially during the great national feasts
37. Even if he would lead an exorbitant life, which he doesn’t, still several families could live on it forever
38. “The cost of that place is exorbitant
39. Hatch’s family were wealthy enough to provide him with an exorbitant allowance, and Musab always seemed to be well supplied with funds although it was a bit of a mystery where it came from
40. For many years, exorbitant energy prices had created misery for people on or below average earnings, and cold winters and increasingly hot summers had caused the old and weak to die in their thousands
41. “Well, you still haven’t told me what’s so special about it, other than its exorbitant price tag
42. news from one place to another without charging the exorbitant rates of the United States Postal Service,” added Rachelle
43. The saddest part of this situation is that these exorbitant prices mean that some people can’t buy a home in that area
44. The exorbitant sums of cash came about because people were scared and didn’t comprehend what effect the year 2000 would have on their systems
45. I have done very well although I have encountered people in the same profession who have gotten paid exorbitant rates for doing exactly what I do
46. Members of both parties still question the deal and its exorbitant value, having gone as far as to suggest the increase was an unnecessary compensation for the scandal surrounding Lady Jane’s husband
47. Van Thorn, will cost an exorbitant
48. Even with exorbitant salaries for top executives, however, the share of national income as wages and salaries is at a record low, while the share of total income captured by corporate profits, and thus investors, is at a record high
49. Consumers can thank the Food and Drug Administration and the United States Patent Office for the exorbitant cost of prescription drugs
50. Couldn't quite afford it because the payment plan on the Shuttle was somewhat … exorbitant
