Sentence examples for usury for from inspiring English sources

It treats "human embryonic cloning" as an evil on a par with gambling and usury, for example.

The government blames "speculation and usury" for the situation.

For example, in the particular case of countries of the West African Monetary Zone (Couchoro 2011), laws on usury for all financial institutions operating in the area impose 'an usury ceiling' not exceeding twice the discount rate of the central bank (i.e., 17% per year).

So, in September, when the treasury ministry announced average rates for house mortgages of 6.6%, the usury rate for such loans was automatically set at 9.9%, a rate far below the going rates in the early 1990s, and hence below the rates on fixed-rate mortgages entered into (legally) at that time.The appeal court's decision has understandably upset the banks.

"We both want to reinstitute the notion of a usury law for the United States," Durbin told HuffPost's Ryan Grim.

He was prosecuted for wool-dealing and, more seriously, for usury – extending loans with interest, a heinous offence in Elizabethan eyes.

Globe University and MSB Sued for Usury, Illegal Loans In July of 2014, Minnesota Attorney General, Lori Swanson, sued Globe University and Minnesota School of Business for misleading students in their criminal justice program over career prospects.

My wife delivered our children at a "non-profit" teaching hospital, but the line item list of nonsense sure seemed like for-profit usury charges.

Other signs alluded to the Christian disdain for usury.

In pre-capitalist Europe Christians were prohibited from usury – lending money for interest.

For good measure he had a couple of dozen shopowners and managers arrested for "usury".Shops were besieged by bargain hunters.