The casino rejected this amount as exorbitant and allowed her suit to continue. |
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Over 35 per cent said they were taken to shops where the prices were exorbitant. |
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Given the exorbitant cost of the city's real estate, the relative affordability of the area has proved to be a major factor. |
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Every year, some 3,000 of these exorbitant powder-blue stacks come cracking and groaning down the Labrador Sea. |
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The classic complaints involve poor punctuality, delays caused by engineering works and exorbitant fares. |
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The pair were referencing the exorbitant golden parachutes given just since last year to previous officials of the struggling airline. |
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Word has it that the prices are so exorbitant because the taxi drivers have to give the resort a cut for operating there. |
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Publicans admit they are ripping off customers with exorbitant prices for soft drinks. |
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He feared it would lead to a situation where private people allotted spaces at exorbitant prices to vehicle owners. |
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Biogas has a tremendous future, due to the exorbitant increase of gasoline prices. |
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The government has accused white farmers of delaying land reform by demanding exorbitant prices for their property. |
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Besides, shop owners charge an exorbitant rate for every thing they sell here. |
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They were concerned that elderly women living alone seemed to be targeted and charged exorbitant prices. |
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At present the price of land in the area has rocketed with some very exorbitant prices being paid for sites for houses. |
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I promise that you will never again have to pay exorbitant amounts to get your children into med school. |
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In fact, they must pay exorbitant prices for food, water and tools and end up working to pay this back for years. |
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And then I would get discounts, which is good, because the prices of rugs are exorbitant. |
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How can any businessperson justify charging such an exorbitant price for apple pie and tea? |
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So, are you tired of paying exorbitant amounts for those dry little critters? |
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They are just boring movie idols admired for their fashion sense and the exorbitant price tags of their weddings. |
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She quoted a price, exorbitant for the boondocks but which she guessed would be cheap for a city person. |
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Who in their right mind would pay the exorbitant prices they charge for everything? |
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They took Chinese princesses as wives and charged exorbitant prices in silk, grain and tea for their horses. |
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Thus, the entire industry is one big sham, endlessly killing dinosaurs and wasting coal at an exorbitant rate. |
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Tyres and tubes were rationed but could be purchased on the black market at exorbitant prices. |
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Rental of ski equipment, and the lessons, were not cheap but nor were they exorbitant. |
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She purchased, at an exorbitant price, a Mandarin and a Jos, that were the envy of all the female connoisseurs. |
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Given the exorbitant cost of authentic civet scrapings nowadays, Civet absolute is often formulated from civetone, a synthetic alternative. |
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He touched his blue silk bathrobe delicately as he wandered around, admiring his exorbitant surroundings. |
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Private moneylenders charge exorbitant interest rates of 30 to 50 percent for a 5-6 month growing season. |
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The buildings are usually controlled by slumlords who overfill the flats, charge exorbitant rents and allow the buildings to become rundown. |
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And no wonder, for although some counselling services are free, or at least buckshee at the point of delivery, others charge exorbitant rates. |
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Though the costs paid to those in the network are exorbitant, it guarantees safety and allows payment to be staggered over time. |
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Paying for parking, programs and putting up with exorbitant food prices are just a few of the burdens horseplayers must bear. |
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All too often, a shopper impulsively pays an exorbitant sum for a puppy, with little or no real knowledge of its origins. |
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The rugby fans after Ireland's Triple Crown victory in Dublin were ripped off by the pubs who charged exorbitant prices for drink over the weekend. |
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We cannot allow a situation where property is taxed at exorbitant levels while the money is squandered on inessentials and perks for the powerful. |
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For this reason we cannot afford to allow their usage and their development to be stifled by exorbitant price barriers. |
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You will find out about this when your next bill shows an exorbitant amount due. |
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In this case, the main risk to the economy is that exorbitant real interest rates snuff out growth, while driving all indebted agents into ruin. |
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The public doesn't know if if a P3 partner is going to go out of business in a week or if it's making exorbitant profits at their expense. |
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Ultimately, the changing threat and enormous price tag doomed the program and only three ships will be built at exorbitant cost. |
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He charged a fee, sometimes quite an exorbitant one, to those who could afford it, and helped others for free. |
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Another annoying trend is to ask for an exorbitant amount in the hope that a small amount will be offer as a means of appeasing the aggrieved person. |
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Particularly within the different Zen and Tibetan traditions practiced in America, costs are exorbitant for things like retreats or even membership. |
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Passing exorbitant Rodeo Drive on my left, I saw, stretching away south, a street that seemed to have normal shops, and family cars bearing the normal scuffs of suburban use. |
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Programmes must examine which population groups are affected by user fees, even if these are not exorbitant. |
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It would seem that the exorbitant profits made in the casino that is the international finance market have no impact on inflation. |
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Unable to afford this exorbitant amount, René and her little boy had no choice but literally to hobble home. |
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These deals brought huge profits to power traders but have resulted in exorbitant electricity rates that impoverished citizens cannot afford. |
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We know that credit card companies in many cases have charged exorbitant rates over a number of years. |
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In a country that produces so many raw materials, the vast majority of its citizens cannot use air transport because of exorbitant fuel prices. |
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Climate change was a further long-term humanitarian threat, especially for the developing countries as it led to exorbitant costs. |
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At points along the perimeter of the crowd local residents tended smoky turf fires and plied their trade of selling cups of tea at exorbitant prices. |
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Revelations pertaining to renowned footballers accruing exorbitant gambling debts have reopened the debate over players and their relationships with turf accountants. |
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The exorbitant prices of basic articles continue to adversely affect the quality of life of the region's residents. |
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But what can you do when you realize that your transportation budget is becoming exorbitant? |
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Now imagine being turned down or paying exorbitant sums for life insurance and health coverage by companies that deem you too high a risk even though you feel fit as a fiddle. |
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Meanwhile, youth must pay exorbitant fees for their higher education, and they have the highest unemployment rate of any age group. |
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The fear of exorbitant program costs is one of the key hesitations about basic income. |
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We had been charged a fairly exorbitant price for a full-blooded Pug. |
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He argued that yes, executive salaries are exorbitant but you have to pay what someone would get in America, otherwise you're not going to get them or keep them. |
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But where the defendant is domiciled within the jurisdiction such an order cannot be regarded as exorbitant or as going beyond what is internationally acceptable. |
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However, consumer groups argue that banks should not impose such exorbitant penalty charges as they do not reflect the costs incurred when customers exceed borrowing limits. |
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Most of the works are for sale, often at scarily exorbitant prices. |
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The exorbitant rates charged at spas mean it is only for the A-list. |
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In Punjab, exorbitant prices of wheat, rice, barley and salt, fuelled great discontent that took the form of anti-Rowlatt Act agitations and protests. |
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A helping of free PR, all while skillfully avoiding the exorbitant day rate of British fashion model daisy Lowe. |
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If the hostage was not released by then, expenses to the debtor could become exorbitant. |
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Nor would the mechanism deal with the exorbitant nature of the charge borne by La Poste under the 1990 Law since its contribution is still part of a 'defined-benefit' scheme and is not in full discharge of its liabilities. |
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Thus armies, with their exorbitant needs for food, ammunition and fodder, were tied to the river valleys throughout the ages. |
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At school I was arty-farty, somewhat sensitive and prone to exorbitant longings and extravagant demands. |
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Albeit it is inherently impossible to numerically calculate the cost-benefit of the alliance, it is increasingly clear that the picture of the 21st century ROK-US alliance seems poised to exact South Korea an exorbitant cost. |
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Instead, firms need to create killer apps for niche markets, and especially those not requiring exorbitant infrastructure investments. |
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The Portuguese sought to dominate the source, rather than relying on Arab traders who sold it to the Venetians for exorbitant prices. |
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In the Soviet Union, widespread illegal subletting occurred at exorbitant rates. |
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A century later, a Dr Hamilton found the remedy to cure Emperor Farrukhsiyar from a dolorous disorder and obtained for his people a little bit more of land and more exorbitant privileges. |
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Many migrant workers arriving for work in Qatar have paid exorbitant fees to recruiters in their home countries. |
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Others have retired from farming, and would rather pay Doner to keep their land in crops and lose money on low commodity prices, than to pay exorbitant taxes. |
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Managers of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation have held lavish receptions, racked up exorbitant travel and dining expenses, and taken boat cruises, all paid for by the Canadian taxpayer. |
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Who wants to buy an exorbitant hi-fi system here in the middle of nowhere? |
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After months of social unrest, and after an exorbitant monthly devaluation, the government had no other choice but to adopt the dollar as the only legal currency in circulation. |
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And all the rest of us would be richer, as we would not be being charged so much by our banks to allow them to pay those exorbitant salaries and bonuses. |
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As we know, that was an exorbitant amount of money in that day. |
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The years leading up to the crisis were characterized by an exorbitant rise in asset prices and associated boom in economic demand. |
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Let us also point out how strictly the Community acquis has been applied to them, in spite of their fragile economy and the exorbitant social cost of an abrupt transition to a market economy. |
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The real purpose of this exorbitant barrel of pigmeat is to placate West Virginia politicians who complain their state doesn't get enough pork. |
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Probably a very loose term would be that we want fairness. We want those people who use this bank service not to be unjustly charged, not to be charged exorbitant rates. |
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I take the cards to the laundry room, where the machines no longer accept coins, a fact that antagonizes some of the old guard, such as Mrs. H, who feels it is an outrage, the machines unreliable, the expense exorbitant. |
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Just about all the lovable, hateable and hoot-able gang is here: gay, straight and transsexual, lustily on the prowl or searching for enduring love, pampered by exorbitant wealth or straight from middle-class Cleveland. |
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There are often headlines that sensationalize the exorbitant sums being paid in damages by companies who have been found guilty of patent infringement. |
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At this time of exorbitant prices, securing energy supplies at reasonable costs would take the strain off countries' economies and provide long-term stability. |
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Living off the grid can save exorbitant amounts of money each year while also giving a new level of autonomy to property owners. |
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Generally unpopular EU and Member State Government policies have emboldened banks to charge exorbitant and illegal interest rates, unethically extracting enormous sums of money from borrowers and working people in general. |
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Easy access to an automatic teller machine is an excellent way to avoid the exorbitant banking fees for exchanging foreign currency or obtaining liquid cash. |
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This saves the farmer from borrowing money from the village moneylender who charges them exorbitant rates of interest. This allows them to put money directly into the infrastructure of their own village. |
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In practice, this simply means that huge amounts of cash are squeezed out of the company by loading it with as much debt as possible and paying out exorbitant dividends. |
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I was looking around a lot in Manhattan, but the prices were exorbitant. |
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The exorbitant cost of healthcare has seen many Americans turn to crowdfunding sites to help pay their unexpected out-of-pocket health care costs. |
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In order to vacate buildings, developers typically pay exorbitant amounts of money to current tenants, sometimes five, six, or in some cases, even seven-figure buyouts. |
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They were sold by Arab traders to the Venetians for exorbitant prices. |
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In fact room rents for the week are being offered at exorbitant rates and many apartment owners are happily 'to-letting' their downtown apartments and going to ruralise. |
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Young unmarried women either use the banned abortifacients or visit local abortion experts, mostly elderly women who charged exorbitant amount of money to remove the foetus. |
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True by pre-war standards the price was exorbitant but at least we can be together even though we are only just managing to keep off the bread line. |
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You also have to pay exorbitant interest if you have credit card debt. |
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It's a nice car, but they are charging an exorbitant price for it. |
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We do not charge exorbitant fees and are not in any way a degree mill. |
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The firm is said to take a company's waste product, said to cost an exorbitant amount to dispose of, and recycles it into a brand new product to sell within the same industry. |
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