Sentence examples for exorbitant demands from inspiring English sources

For us, Puuhonua o Honaunau was a refuge from the island's exorbitant demands.

Statutory regulation of price is commonly directed toward the prevention of exorbitant demands of buyers or sellers.

Accordingly, he first created a fund for agricultural loans at interest to farmers, who were thereby spared the exorbitant demands of moneylenders.

Reforestation, on the other hand, could actually reduce the current carbon loss by up to 10 percent without exorbitant demands on management practices.

The obvious deterrent to such surrender is the fear that the next time such an event happens, the other party will make exorbitant demands.

They didn't care, he said, that he had helped to create hundreds of jobs there; they were squeezing him out of the development with exorbitant demands in favour of their pet firms.

And the exorbitant demand on the city's housing supply isn't likely to change anytime soon.

That average figure masks the exorbitant dowry demands that are often made by the family of the groom.

The latter does not make the exorbitant moral demands of traditional religions, which impose bad conscience, guilt, sin, sexual inhibition and the rest.

The crime organization SPECTRE hijacks two atomic bombs from a NATO training flight and threatens to destroy a major city unless its exorbitant financial demands are met.

The publicity was not lost on the defendants' lawyers, who accused prosecutors of making exorbitant bail demands with headline writers in mind.