(1) Saving for a deposit is near impossible while paying extortionate rents for barely habitable flatshares.
(2) But the highlight, of course, was when One Direction ran off stage and my youngest touched Zane with a giant foam hand that I purchased for an extortionate price.
(3) Recipes for " tomato burgers " (bestowing this fruit sandwich with the holy title of "burger" is an affront to cows everywhere), help on undergoing a " friendship divorce ", extortionate travel guides … Goop covers a lot of ground.
(4) IDPs complain of people charging extortionate rent for basic shelter and Islamabad's failure to hand over promised financial handouts.
(5) On my watch it would be illegal to charge extortionate amounts for tiny flats.
(6) We need to bring an end to these extortionate prices and give people real choices, by building the homes this nation needs.” UK tenants pay more rent than any country in Europe Read more Roger Harding for the housing charity Shelter said private renters “are bearing the brunt of our dramatic housing shortage”.
(7) City's Mancini, following a series of nervy, half-hearted predecessors less suited to the strange, monumental and messy task of creating a football team in opposition to the extortionate Reds, and remaking history – which Ferguson understood with his own particular combative cunning – has this purpose too, this instinctive perception of how to succeed by channelling uptight regional mentality as well as introducing fresh, resourceful outside skills.
(8) More and more, the new buildings of the super-rich turn their denizens inward, justifying their extortionate prices by offering amenities such as gyms, screening rooms, wine bars and even libraries – and thereby further reducing the street life that any great city depends upon.
(9) The initial 10,000 copies cost an extortionate 12 reichsmark, “the equivalent of 32 kilogrammes of bread”, said one protagonist, or €300-€400 (£215-£290) in today’s money.
(10) It is embarrassing for the company that it failed to protect its own former premises from being squatted and doubly embarrassing that this luxury building, in far better shape than many of the buildings they fill with property guardians, has been left empty when it could have provided low-cost, temporary accommodation – complete with tasteful carpets, luxury shower, high-speed Wi-Fi and air conditioning – to several people priced out of the extortionate London rental market.
(11) This stance now makes Britain one of the few places in the world where consumers can be charged extortionate rates of interest without any form of redress.
(12) Homeswaps A modern house in Rio's Jardim Botanico area, as listed on Love Home Swap's site Another way round the extortionate prices is to consider a home swap.
(13) Yet escaping spiralling rent, extortionate letting agency fees and poorly maintained properties can be an impossible task, despite the introduction of the government's Help to Buy scheme.
(14) Payday loan companies lent money at sometimes extortionate rates, occasionally rising to over 5,000% pa. London property became a form of reserve currency for the world, as wealthy foreigners paid unimaginable sums for houses in which they had no intention of living.
(15) The greater problem was that employers often lured immigrants to this country by offering them places in low-grade houses, charging them extortionate rent, and then paying them unreasonably low wages that undercut the rate for local workers.
(16) It's great value if you need to travel at the last minute and don't want to pay the extortionate prices airlines charge for walk-up fares.
(17) Today even that has become difficult because lots of microfinance companies are now charging extortionate interest rates.
(18) Many of these claimants are workers whose pay is so low that they simply cannot afford the often extortionate rents being charged by private landlords.
(19) "My major concern is that if the fund is withdrawn, people who have nowhere else to go will be forced towards loan sharks who will charge extortionate rates of interest, which could lead to short-term problems escalating to long term troubles," she wrote.
(20) I was earning the minimum wage and all my wages went into paying extortionate rent.
Harpy
Definition:
(n.) A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three.
(n.) One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
(n.) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
(n.) A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to Brazil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whatever else Valérie Trierweiler has been portrayed as – vengeful harpy, ambitious meddler, undignified ex – she is also a woman who has had her heart broken.
(2) British feminists being as niggardly in the Sun 's respect as they are about subsidising lap-dancing clubs, visiting Formula One brothels and subscribing to the late men's magazine, Nuts , a periodical brought to its knees by jealous harpies.
(3) "Everything has declined, especially big mammals, there used to be harpy eagles flying in the sky, sloths hanging from trees, but oil exploration is killing the rainforest.
(4) By failing to confront our ghouls – and their tabloid harpies – we merely let them haunt us again.
(5) I’ve said a lot of shit in my life – and you can certainly quote me on the record using that word – but I would never suggest anything like that.” Things Erickson has suggested include the notion that “Obama’s marxist harpy wife would go Lorena Bobbitt on him” – Bobbitt was a Virginia woman who in 1993 cut off her husband’s penis – should he even think about it”.
(6) They hand out an humorous flyers to the public, congratulating men on successfully keeping "harpies and gossips" out of their ranks and maintaining all power within their wonderfully firm male grasp.
(7) In person, Brick is relaxed and delightful company – nothing like the arrogant harpy I'd been led to expect.
(8) Or rather, she was a sort of ultra-acerbic clown: an outlandishly dressed and painted pixie-harpy, who said whatever she liked.
(9) Enter Parsifal, a "pure fool" and Christ-like redeemer figure, who alone can resist the lure of Klingsor's harpies, restore the spear to the knights, cure Amfortas and give Klingsor's arch-temptress Kundry the release from earthly life she so ardently desires.
(10) Forget Donald Trump – Megyn Kelly won the Republican debate Read more Erickson himself, however, has a long history of making disparaging remarks about women, including calling first lady Michelle Obama a “marxist harpy” and Texas politician Wendy Davis “abortion Barbie”.
(11) Elle Fanning is that scheming harpy, Princess Aurora aka Sleeping Beauty.
(12) She has been pilloried as the scorned woman and the vindictive harpy.
(13) The mood swings were back with a vengeance – plunging me into unplumbable depths of despair and turning me into an irascible harpy in the days before my period.
(14) It’s less the White House than the Black Tower, sending out its Breitbartian orcs and alt-right winged harpies to poison the politics of a nation.