Sentence examples for exorbitant compensation from inspiring English sources

Frémont had done business with a shady California contractor who worked without a contract and received exorbitant compensation.

Just as we somehow paid exorbitant compensation for those whose lives were taken in the 9/11 outrage.

Is it possible that Romney honestly believes that the kind of exorbitant compensation he received for his consulting work would not have had a similar or worse effect on a company's bottom line, and for the benefit of so few?

Likewise, beliefs may causally affect attitudes, as when employees begin to disapprove of their company CEO because of their newly acquired beliefs concerning her exorbitant compensation package.

But even Stevens' exorbitant compensation package could not top Northrop Grumman's Wesley G. Bush, whose compensation package in 2011 exceeded $26 million.

This wide chasm between the rich and the working class is mainly because of income inequality: while the wages of working class Americans have declined over the past few decades, the income of the top 1% has risen, partly due to exorbitant compensation for senior executives at companies, and partly due to investment income - which the wealthy have a lot more of.

It is a criticism of exorbitant CEO compensation and the growing discrepancy between CEO and average worker compensation.

"Using the millions of dollars in annual revenue from licensing fees paid by companies around the globe for the use of the World Trade Center brand, Mr. Tozzoli received exorbitant annual compensation" from the association, Mr. Cuomo said.

With 1,300 private insurance companies and thousands of different health benefit programs designed to maximize profits, our country spends an incredible 30percentt of each health care dollar on administration and billing, exorbitant CEO compensation packages, advertising, lobbying and campaign contributions.

After all, it was Spitzer who, as state attorney general and self-appointed "Sheriff of Wall Street," went after corruption and greed in the finance industry, exposing investment bank stock inflation, securities fraud, predatory lending practices, exorbitant executive compensation and illegal late trading and market timing perpetrated by hedge funds and mutual fund companies.

"She should first look at factors that drive high tuition rates, such as the exorbitant salaries and compensation packages that many professors and administrators receive," the release said.