Sentence examples for exorbitant sum of from inspiring English sources

Mr. Guare also strikes a sharp contemporary note when Napoleon, having ceded the Louisiana Territory for the then exorbitant sum of $15 million, predicts that the rapidly expanding country will be riven by irresolvable conflict.

That North Castle declined to spend the exorbitant sum of $1 for a 19,000-square-foot parcel of potential parkland ("For Many Municipalities, $1 Property Isn't a Lure," April 18) should surprise exactly no one who has closely monitored the often head-scratching decisions by the town's elected officials.

He designed elegant and beautiful watches in an age of rococo designs but wasn't above creating a "subscription" watch for the masses who wanted to own a piece of the good life without paying an exorbitant sum of money.

When told it may take the exorbitant sum of 3,000 ducats to save Antonio, her betrothal's best friend, Portia doesn't bat even one of her glamorous eyelids.

Hired in 2009 by concert promoters AEG to serve as Michael Jackson's personal physician, Murray was paid the exorbitant sum of $150,000 a month for his position.

As an undergraduate at the University of Washington in the late 1990s, Wendie Wilson noticed some striking ads in the campus newspaper: appeals to young women to sell their eggs for what seemed to her exorbitant sums of money.

The heads also raises concern that schools are often not able to find specialist teachers because of shortages and so must spend "exorbitant sums of money" to put a teacher in front of a class.

Do they claim their methods are predicated upon medicinal practices, and why do some rehab centers charge exorbitant sums of money for treatment?

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For this episode of VICE INTL, VICE Serbia speaks with some families who swear by the controversial treatment and spend exorbitant sums of money just to keep their loved ones alive and comfortable at the risk of getting arrested.

Since the State gave exorbitant sums of money to corporations to develop the city, a vacant lot in Camden that might have been worth $20,000 five years ago is now worth millions.