Sentence examples for extortionate levels of from inspiring English sources

Fighting through the general fug, facts come at you fast: rent was extortionate, levels of gender inequality would make the average Twitter feminist keel over.

In China's underground lending market, the most sensitive indicator of credit conditions, kerbside rates have reached extortionate levels of as much as 6% a month (see our report from Wenzhou).

In July, Bigod and Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Constable of England, drew up a series of complaints known as the Remonstrances, in which objections to the extortionate level of taxation were voiced.

In New York and other progressive states, the authorities require insurers to offer coverage to people with preëxisting conditions, but that has simply forced up the prices of individual plans to extortionate levels.

Having tried to raise taxes on agricultural exports to extortionate levels, she turned the resulting dispute with angry farmers into a trial of strength which she lost.

"We have been seeing a rapid increase in such modifications being carried out," says Andreas Haltermann of the Tenants' Alliance, "primarily so landlords can increase the rent – sometimes to an extortionate level – with the intention of pushing existing residents out, so they can either sell the flat or rent it out at a much higher rate".

Smugglers charge extortionate prices to cram hordes of people into old and unsafe fishing vessels, knowing their passengers will accept any level of risk in the desperation to escape their homelands.

The only thing that appears to unite the Gurkhas is the fact that they all accuse the British government of extortionate visa fees of between £585 to £870 for each veteran and dependent wanting a settlement visa.

Loan sharks, charging extortionate rates of interest, thrive.

One is the extortionate costs of a legal education.

Most Londoners will know someone suffering from the extortionate expense of finding a place to live.