Sentence examples for obscene rates from inspiring English sources

In Venezuela, newborn babies are dying at obscene rates.

The problem is these groups are not price sensitive, so they can get away with charging what most people consider to be pretty obscene rates".

Gypsy cabs aren't known for their generosity -- in fact, most people I know avoid them because they quote obscene rates for even the shortest rides.

Convenience stores, as well as mom-and-pop stores down on the South Side are known for charging obscene rates for clothing and other products, reeling in customers by putting flashy signs that say "Designer" or "Exclusive" next to cheap clothing.

He married, and Catholic to the core, he said, began "producing children at an obscene rate" -- 10 in all, to be precise, children who in turn gave him 25 grandchildren.

Let's take this comical pose seriously for a moment, and imagine just how we might improve psychiatric health services in a way that would diminish the obscene rate of gun violence in America.

These firms exploit the poorest in society by charging them obscene interest rates.

In short, rampant corruption is the real reason for obscene interest rates.

These obscene interest rates are the latest in a series of the banks' launches of their Weapons of Mass Depression at the American people and our economy.

I've written about a few of these subjects before: the obscene incarceration rate in America; Doug Blackmon's ground-breaking book, Slavery by Another Name, in which he describes the forced labor system in place for more than a century after the end of the Civil War.

Increased prison privatization in recent decades is a hidden factor behind America's obscene spike in incarceration rates.