Sentence examples for outrageous expense from inspiring English sources

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What about the supposedly outrageous expense?

Tim Fairhurst London It seems our MPs' main problem with the Speaker is that he did not do enough to curtail their own outrageous expense claims.

For nearly 30 years the Kahns lived on a large waterfront property on Lake Cayuga in which, to justify what seemed to him an outrageous expense, he forced himself to swim every day until it was too cold.

The wine, stored in a long concrete vault, will ferment in a more stable environment and this will cut out the outrageous expense (and carbon emissions) of air conditioning above-ground storage in 40C heat.

Usually, it's an outrageous expense that the team claims as a credit against its rent — like the time it said it paid an engineer, one human being, to work 168 hours a week for six consecutive weeks.

Many of the best musical instrument cases come from the UK (I'm partial to Wiseman horn cases), but sometimes they're worth the outrageous expense.

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Parking for free, he said, made all the other outrageous New York expenses more bearable.

And we will see what happens when the politicians try to reduce Greece's outrageous military expenses.

Who knew that a former executive at General Electric, a company widely-known for its tax dodging and outrageous lobbying expenses, would take a bold, selfless stand against income inequality as president of a public university?

This guaranteed to potential buyers that there was no speculation-minded investor in the background hoping to make an outrageous profit at their expense.

As my furious constituent put it, it wasn't just the outrageous abuse of the expenses system that infuriated him – it was that politicians have become impotent to deliver change too.

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