Sentence examples for exorbitant construction from inspiring English sources

Idealism and Hospitality Mix Here, more so than in the bustling center of Athens, where workers are racing to finish exorbitant construction projects, the Olympic spirit burns brilliantly.

While individual seats in a stadium can cost as much as $200 each to install, increased capacity is rarely the reason for exorbitant construction costs, even though the costs of concrete and steel have risen significantly in recent years, says Kevin Reichard, publisher of Arena Digest and Ballpark Digest.

A theatrical audio guide tells of the then-exorbitant castle construction costs, £1,413, and stokes the legend of a hirsute merman caught in a local fisherman's net and imprisoned in the castle dungeon in the 12th century.

Free to charge exorbitant sums, these construction executives accrued enormous profits.

The exorbitant cost of new capital construction has also challenged regional economies: the basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, is estimated to have cost $500 900 million, and the King Hassan Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco, was completed in 1993 at a cost of $1 billion.

Buccaneer managers manipulated the securities of their own roads, plundered capital reserves, bribed politicians and formed bogus construction companies to charge exorbitant fees that they willingly paid -- to themselves.

Gangsters, for example, long brokered part-time construction labor for an exorbitant fee.

If these states can manage to fund road construction and maintenance without imposing exorbitant taxes on their residents, then so can we.

He also ordered the construction of Astana, a futuristic capital city built from scratch in 1997 at exorbitant cost.

The obstacles to building inside the city outnumber the incentives: Byzantine zoning and permit processes and exorbitant union labor costs (60%to80%0% higher than in the surrounding suburbs) swell the cost of construction, even as a weak market holds down the price builders can charge.

Those wary of the impact on fundamentals of 480,000 units under construction this year can be assuaged by the fact that apartment demand in the U.S. is still exorbitant, National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts Senior Economist Calvin Schnure said.