Sentence examples for make exorbitant from inspiring English sources

We must make sure that such contractors give quick and efficient solutions to the needs of the victims without using their misfortune to make exorbitant profits.

A perfectly pleasant girl on her first big excursion abroad, she would doubtless grow into a better-socialized woman who would make exorbitant hotel reservations rather than dream of dumping herself on total strangers.

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According to the lore, Mr. Market is a manic-depressive investor who one day will make exorbitant bids for the stocks you own and then turn tail the next and offer to sell at incredibly low prices.

It's like a business proposition where the groom and his family make exorbitant demands," she was quoted as saying by the Times of India.

"Orange is the New Green" looked at the way telecommunication financial companies make exorbitant profits by holding people incarcerated in the prison system and their families hostage.

Venice made exorbitant profits by trading spices with buyer-distributors from northern and western Europe.

And eight years after Bill Clinton made exorbitant executive pay an issue in his first presidential campaign, the topic has disappeared from the political scene.

Not one but two biographers have now made it their mission to resurrect a life and career that, without making exorbitant claims, they deem more interesting than her lackluster place in film history would suggest.

"Within the past month, Doug Hampton's legal counsel made exorbitant demands for cash and other financial benefits on behalf of his client," said a spokesman for the senator, Tory Mazzola.

Therefore, went the speculation, labourers would be at an advantage if they contributed to the accumulation of capital to enlarge the fund; if they made exorbitant demands on employers or formed labour organizations that diminished capital, they would be reducing the size of the fund, thereby forcing wages down.