Sentence examples for in extortionate from inspiring English sources

The state taking over empty mansions is unlikely to be followed through, with many former residents probably being holed up in extortionate B&Bs.

Forcing Republicans to relent for now in their extortionate ways is a tactical victory for Mr. Obama and Congressional Democrats in the long budget war.

The Pasok deputy labour minister, Yannis Koutsoukos, who resigned in protest on Thursday, accused the "troika" – officials from the European commission, ECB and IMF – of behaving "in an extortionate manner that is completely improper and shameless".

In the coming hours, we will encounter garlands, wreaths, and wrapping paper; also airports, in-laws, and extortionate shipping fees.

The developers of the game seem to be just as excited as the players they want to attract, and will ideally acknowledge the not-so-fine line between commercial viability and opportunistically extortionate in-game economics.

The protest movement was nicknamed J14, short for July 14th, marking the date a girl called Daphni Leef pitched the first tent in central Tel Aviv, in protest against extortionate rents and living costs.

A 5-kilo jumbo pack of washing powder cost euro9.80 in Brussels, but an extortionate euro24.30 in Helsinki.

At home in the UK, people are forced out of their homes in London under extortionate rents while estate agents fees privilege buy-to-let landlords' rights over their tenants'.

Taxes have become extortionate in some countries.

Icelanders claim that charging 5.5% interest over 15 years is extortionate in an era of near-zero base rates.

To name and shame rent-to-own retailer Brighthouse, whose hire-purchase consumer goods schemes verge on the extortionate, in front of more than 200 audience members felt courageous and important.