Sentence examples for extortionate leverage from inspiring English sources

But the valid criticisms of the President's economic record include his inadequate response to the banksters' extortionate leverage over the economy, his equivocation and miscalculation over the necessary size of the stimulus and his woeful approach to the mortgage crisis.

This is extortionate.

But private renting is extortionate".

Taxes have become extortionate in some countries.

Katherine Ogilive thought graduation was "absolutely extortionate.

So, leverage.

There are signs this extortionate practice is about to change.

Perhaps the extortionate fees are not all bad.

Ticket prices, seemingly once so extortionate, are now a bargain.

That's just extortionate – it's guilt money.

Loan sharks, charging extortionate rates of interest, thrive.