Sentence examples for prevent exorbitant from inspiring English sources

The city has said it needed to hire about 300 firefighters for public safety reasons and to prevent exorbitant overtime costs.

Or it could go further and legislate to prevent exorbitant gains being made on debts purchased on the secondary market – such a law has already been floated in the US Congress.

They allow visitor-buyers to purchase just one case per person, thus preventing resell at exorbitant prices.

It is not our community's responsibility to pay our exorbitant medical bills, to prevent our lives from being annihilated by the cost of illness.

The two lawsuits could effectively end up causing a stalemate between the companies that could prevent Facebook from having to pay exorbitant patent licensing fees to Yahoo or having to shut down some of its services.

Then we could avoid this cold sweat panic over health care reform, because by virtue of being healthy and fit, we'd prevent most of what has created the exorbitant health care costs that threaten to bankrupt us and break our spirit.

For example, domestic violence, drug use and other bad behavior don't prevent professional sports teams from paying talented, though clearly troubled, athletes exorbitant salaries.

Its purpose was to prevent salt smuggling into British-controlled India, where the British collected an exorbitant salt tax - it was the equivalent of two months' salary of an Indian peasant.

Uematsu has said that the soundtrack has a feel of "realism", which prevented him from using "exorbitant, crazy music".

Uematsu has said the soundtrack has a feel of "realism", which prevented him from using "exorbitant, crazy music".

On a wider scale, who is to prevent gold-rich nations from banding together as a cartel to fix prices at exorbitant amounts in the same way that the oil-producing nations of OPEC did?