Sentence examples for exorbitant resources from inspiring English sources

The Sessions directive to seek the death penalty will not likely become a significant element of this war on drugs — death-penalty prosecutions have fallen precipitously in the past decade, a decline driven by the increasing reluctance of juries to impose it and the wariness of prosecutors to deploy the exorbitant resources necessary to win a capital-punishment conviction.

The initiative was based on the idea of "climate debt" -- that countries in the North (Annex 1) bear a historic responsibility for global environmental problems like climate change due to their continued level of exorbitant resource consumption, and therefore owe a debt to developing countries in the global south who have differentiated, but shared responsibilities.

What we see here is pure rentier capitalism: monopolising a public resource then charging exorbitant fees to use it.

But all over America, this will happen much, much sooner if we allow multinational corporations to privatize our water resources and manage them for exorbitant profits rather than sustainable use.

I cannot see, for example, that anything positive is going to come of draining resources out of Aboriginal Legal Services when we are still incarcerated at exorbitant rates, nor any benefits to Family Violence Prevention services when Aboriginal women are still 45 times more likely to experience family violence.

The issue of exorbitant pay to failed CEOs isn't about helping the poor, but for a company to use its resources to help shore up its middle class, which is disappearing.

After his coronation at Aachen on June 24 , 1292 Adolf had to face exorbitant demands by his electors and the hostility of Albert, who as duke of Austria commanded great financial and territorial resources.

The thrill was exorbitant.

Prices are often exorbitant.

And the costs are exorbitant.

Ticket prices are exorbitant by Indian standards.