Sentence examples for extortionate profits from inspiring English sources

They have detailed the corruption that allows connected private companies to make extortionate profits through roadside concessions.

The pay-day industry stands accused of preying on the poor while making extortionate profits and misleading borrowers about the true cost of their loans.

"The big oil companies are making extortionate profits out of the current oil price," he was quoted as saying.

But as a group of global poverty NGOs argued this week, Africa is being drained of resources through western corporate profit extraction, extortionate debt repayments and one-sided trade "partnership" deals.

The RMT general secretary, Mick Cash, said: "This report throws up yet more evidence that two decades of privatisation, fragmentation and underinvestment in Britain's railways have left passengers angry and frustrated as they see the hard cash they spend on extortionate fares drained away in profits to the train operating companies.

In a system that prioritises profit, we see landlords charging extortionate sums for shoddy conditions and no security.

Vigilante on the move A wealth of data Correction: Big Mac index ReprintsMr Akula also says that for-profit microfinance need not mean extortionate interest rates for the poor.

Dispatches alleged that landlords ripped off lessees with unfair and "extortionate" repair bills, and engaged in questionable profit-sharing deals with contractors.

She needed to borrow to buy materials, but because she was poor and had no assets, conventional banks shunned her, and she had to turn instead to local moneylenders whose extortionate rates of interest consumed nearly all her profits.

Also, it would almost certainly mean that the £300, in the example given, would be an extortionate price as suppliers would expect to make extra profits in return for taking the risk of fraud.

Writing for non-profit academic presses offers some protection against these kinds of extortionate arrangements.