Sentence examples for exorbitant salt from inspiring English sources

Its purpose was to prevent salt smuggling into British-controlled India, where the British collected an exorbitant salt tax - it was the equivalent of two months' salary of an Indian peasant.

In France smuggling against the tobacco monopoly and the exorbitant tax on salt became widespread.

"The government has put VAT on salt, flour, cooking oil, bread and milk, exorbitant taxes that hurt the poor, while the government has not trimmed expenditure," said Hajat.

And consumers pay, for every barrel we buy, the exorbitant cost of that final smidgeon of oil from Alberta or the Brazilian pre-Salt.

And the costs are exorbitant.

Prices are often exorbitant.

Ticket prices are exorbitant by Indian standards.

Fans have paid exorbitant prices for tickets.

"The price is obviously exorbitant," she said.

I paid the guy an exorbitant fee.

But prices in London are exorbitant.