Contoh extortionate

• Many pensions carry extortionate charges and are often inflexible.

• When out-of-state companies invested in irrigation systems, they set extortionate rates for water.

• He also justifies his stance on economic grounds by alluding to extortionate policies by the colonial power, which also affected his large clientele.

• However, her extortionate rule and the expansion of her relatives' power stirred up much animosity.

• Their reluctance was reinforced by the popular belief that trading on the black market, unless done at extortionate rates, was not a crime, whatever the legal code said.

• Would a settler on one of the public tracts have access to water from a railroad tract, or might the railroad sell the water at extortionate prices?

• I have already said that it is most difficult for the law courts to say when extortionate rents are being exacted.

• Would he look at this again and make those county councils which have demanded this extortionate blackmail hand back their ill-gotten gains?

• It might get some inferior coal, which the general public seem to think is being foisted on it at extortionate prices.

• I have made inquiries from surveyors and others who regard this amount as extortionate.

• The court is given a wide degree of discretion in many issues, and a general power to reopen extortionate agreements.

• That seems extortionate in the light of the fact that many can borrow more cheaply than that through their own bank account or overdraft.

• The certificates go to the district council and the money for these exorbitant and extortionate rents are paid by the district council.

• This pushes up the price of quotas, which are rented to fishermen for extortionate amounts.

• Thirdly, low quotas and the resultant extortionate fines are eating up the subsidies for the 1999 harvest.