Sentence examples for jacked from inspiring English sources

On the contrary, in the credit-card market they've slashed credit lines and jacked up interest rates.

Reached by a tunnel that runs under the six-lane Bayfront Expressway from the existing headquarters, 1 Facebook Way (aka MPK20) is a gargantuan sprawling mass, rambling across an area of 430,000 sq ft (40,000 sq m), or around five and a half football pitches, jacked up above a ground-level car park and topped with a park on the roof.

Outside America, the first big shift towards private funding happened in Australia, where tuition fees were jacked up in the late 1980s.

They complain that it has jacked up access prices.

Although Owen Arthur, the BLP leader, was regarded as a good manager, people felt that he had become a little arrogant after his 13 years in power, and some of his party rather too comfortably settled.Voters also fretted over rising food prices, cost overruns on a road project and property prices jacked up by villa-buying foreigners.

To get the federal debt down, they jacked up taxes and slashed spending.

Having been fascinated by Artaud for more than a decade, she hi-jacked his prose and made it a vehicle for her own pain and anger.

When it works best, as on the anthemic Shine and All of This and Nothing, it is mightily effective, like Nick Cave's Bad Seeds have hi-jacked the stage looking for trouble.

But then it's as though Season's Greetings has been hi-jacked by a squad comprised of the absurdist Ionesco, that master of logorrhoeic misanthropy, Thomas Bernhard, and Caryl Churchill at her most radically playful.

An American science writer, Jeff Wise, speculated that the single Russian and two Ukrainian passengers hi-jacked the jet on the orders of the Kremlin and flew it to Kazakhstan.

Better still, the government can simply refuse to buy milk at ridiculously jacked-up prices.