Sentence examples for an extortionate level from inspiring English sources

"We have been seeing a rapid increase in such modifications being carried out," says Andreas Haltermann of the Tenants' Alliance, "primarily so landlords can increase the rent – sometimes to an extortionate level – with the intention of pushing existing residents out, so they can either sell the flat or rent it out at a much higher rate".

In July, Bigod and Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Constable of England, drew up a series of complaints known as the Remonstrances, in which objections to the extortionate level of taxation were voiced.

Universities say these extortionate levels are required by a competitive global market.

Having tried to raise taxes on agricultural exports to extortionate levels, she turned the resulting dispute with angry farmers into a trial of strength which she lost.

Fighting through the general fug, facts come at you fast: rent was extortionate, levels of gender inequality would make the average Twitter feminist keel over.

In New York and other progressive states, the authorities require insurers to offer coverage to people with preëxisting conditions, but that has simply forced up the prices of individual plans to extortionate levels.

In China's underground lending market, the most sensitive indicator of credit conditions, kerbside rates have reached extortionate levels of as much as 6% a month (see our report from Wenzhou).

"Unless, that is, he was asking an extortionate price".

It ultimately feels like a tax — an extortionate one at that — and not a protective measure.

Many more endure slavish penury, having paid an extortionate recruitment fee in their home nations.

His taxi driver will refuse to start the meter, demanding an extortionate fare instead.