Sentence examples for exorbitant death from inspiring English sources

The current duke and duchess moved in in 1959 and, faced with exorbitant death duties, they set about creating the Chatsworth House Trust in 1981 to preserve and restore the property and to make it as accessible to the public as possible.

The prices, he said, were so exorbitant they resembled death duties.

One memorable cartoon, according to Le Monde, featured a wealthy man asking, "At a time when we all risk dying of bird flu, you obsess over my exorbitant salary?" On the night before his death, he sent his last drawing, an apparent caricature of French President Francois Hollande with New Year wishes, to Presse Judiciaire, an association of French reporters covering court cases.

Some people have even mentioned doing away with the death penalty because of the exorbitant cost to the state of guaranteed appeals.

Within days of its conquest of Mosul, ISIS issued an ultimatum to Christians to either convert to Islam, pay an exorbitant and open-ended tax, or face death "by the sword".

And in the end, they had exorbitant power".

As a union lawyer representing longshoremen in the San Francisco area in the 1950's, Mr. Treuhaft was enraged by the exorbitant fees undertakers charged, frequently consuming a widow's death benefits.

We pay exorbitant prices for shoddy service because broadband providers print money and hold innovation in a death grip.

For Tibetans in Nepal, business ownership, licenses and most legal transactions, including documentation of births, marriages, and deaths, must be accomplished through the auspices of an intermediary for an exorbitant fee.

He runs an organization that provides a variety of services to villagers in this area — legal aid, financial assistance to help them organize marriage and death ceremonies, and free refrigerated coffin boxes that they would otherwise have to procure at exorbitant rates from private merchants.

Financed by the exorbitant profits of the 1980s and early 90s drug boom, in the early part of this century paramilitary death squads embarked on the largest land grab in national history, a campaign that has saddled Colombia with the second-highest internally displaced population in the world.