Sentence examples for extortionate terms from inspiring English sources

This summer Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, thanks to the extortionate terms of its PFI contract, found itself with a shortfall of £70m.

On Monday, delivering his opening statement to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Boies claimed that the government imposed extortionate terms on A.I.G.'s board, which was in no position to resist them.

A notoriously brash character and tough negotiator, Klein invented the role of business manager but his stance as the outsider siding with the artists, the enemy of the record companies, would have had a lot more credence if he hadn't succeeded in negotiating excellent, many would say extortionate, terms when he parted company with his clients.

He sued academics who wished to publish versions of Joyce's letters and either refused to grant permission to quote from James Joyce's work, or charged fees that have been termed "extortionate".

Many are struggling to cope with the long-term legacy of extortionate private finance initiative schemes.

"Jew" as a term of opprobrium, denoting "a grasping or extortionate person," is traced in meticulous detail to the early 17th century.

As paypackets fall in real terms while energy and food bills soar, families are struggling to meet sometimes extortionate housing costs.

This is extortionate.

But private renting is extortionate".

What would really save money in the longer term is building council housing, because it would create employment, stimulate the economy and reduce the housing benefit bill that subsidises private landlords' extortionate rents.

Katherine Ogilive thought graduation was "absolutely extortionate.