Sentence examples for exorbitant growth from inspiring English sources

He attacked what he called the exorbitant growth of corporate executive pay and the practice of some American companies moving operations overseas, suggesting that President Bush has not done enough about either.

Although the anecdotal evidence is strong -- and the concert industry certainly appears to be more monopolized lately, with rising prices and declining ticket sales -- it has proved surprisingly difficult to find systematic evidence linking Clear Channel to the exorbitant growth in concert prices.

"How could people buy all those McMansions?" said James W. Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, remarking on the less-than-exorbitant growth in median income.

About a third of the financial services, he says, is simply an "oligopoly" which has stunted the growth of business by charging exorbitant fees for raising capital – thereby robbing companies of the cash to invest and build businesses.

Valeant executives have constrained future growth by pledging an end to the exorbitant drug price hikes that helped drive its share price from $35 in October 2011 to nearly $264 last August.

Because earnings didn't matter in the new era -- only revenue growth did -- Nortel was willing to pay exorbitant prices for acquisitions to juice its revenues.

Antonio Palocci, the finance minister, proposed taking advantage of faster economic growth to eliminate Brazil's persistent fiscal deficit and thus lower its exorbitant interest rates by capping the increase in federal spending.

A funeral arranger, Joseph Akrashie Annan, reckons that $2,470 was spent sending Mr Okai to his grave.In the 1980s Ghana's then military ruler, Jerry Rawlings, set up a commission to look at the exorbitant costs of funerals amid fears they were retarding the country's economic growth.

Capitalism meant exorbitant wealth at the top, but it also meant rapid technological progress and economic growth.

These changes may be related to exorbitant instantaneous concentration of CO3 2−, which leads to Ag2CO3 explosive nucleation and rapid growth in short time.

The study recommends that the city work harder to help growing businesses thrive, in part by addressing "the fundamental issues hampering business growth in the city, such as permitting, business taxes and policies that spur exorbitant real estate speculation".