There is something monstrous about the urgent, exorbitant need that overrode any consideration of human feeling, compassion or basic decency.
And a range of phenomena, such as hurricane activity, that were previously thought to be unconnected to climate change are now increasingly linked to it.This survey will argue that although the science remains uncertain, the chances of serious consequences are high enough to make it worth spending the (not exorbitant) sums needed to try to mitigate climate change.
"My mission was to try and build a vehicle that would be big enough to be seen from a great distance, but small enough such that I wouldn't need exorbitant power requirements to get it up into the air," Dantonio explained.
Democrats have argued that President Bush's proposed $8.3 billion missile defense budget, a $3 billion increase from last year, is exorbitant when other basic needs, like maintaining ships and buying ammunition, are being squeezed.
For Bataille, human beings were beings of excess with exorbitant energy, fantasies, drives, needs, and heterogeneous desire.
A public insurance plan wouldn't need to have the sales, marketing, and underwriting expenses--and would certainly not need to pay executives exorbitant salaries, and would not need to set aside a significant chunk of every premium dollar to pay shareholders--that private plans do.
When the banking and auto industries claimed they needed their exorbitant executive salaries to attract 'talent', we all laughed to think the 'best and brightest' were needed destroy the global economy.
The group supports voluntary fuel efficiency targets for the sector, which she said "doesn't need an exorbitant tax to incentivize the industry to go green".
An exorbitant number of flowers need to be processed in order to yield marketable amounts of saffron.
According to Boehner, the U.S. is like a family in desperate need of a loan, or like Greece that can only borrow at exorbitant interest rates and therefore needs a bailout from foreign lenders.
