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Extortionate and non-negotiable demands for settlement are made before and after litigation is commenced, but defendants who have the temerity to defend themselves or refuse to implicate others are somehow blameworthy, and they are expected to cooperate fully or be sanctioned if they don ` t.
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Extortionate property prices mean tiny apartments and a phenomenal work ethic, and the galleries and art fair are seen to belong to an elite middle class rather than the masses.
Hong Kong is firmly at the heart of China's new cultural revolution 2011
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Duped into Debt: Extortionate amounts of money are taken for hidden costs without the tenant knowing, such as fees for a tenancy inspection which the landlords "forget" to tell tenants about, immediately putting people into arrears.
Tenants warned of rogue landlords Reni Eddo-Lodge 2010
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Extortionate and non-negotiable demands for settlement are made before and after litigation is commenced, but defendants who have the temerity to defend themselves or refuse to implicate others are somehow blameworthy, and they are expected to cooperate fully or be sanctioned if they don`t.
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Extortionate prices – averaging four times the price of a domestic call – are now being curbed.
Top ten EU achievements in 2006 Serf 2006
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Extortionate prices – averaging four times the price of a domestic call – are now being curbed.
Archive 2006-12-01 Serf 2006
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Extortionate prices were charged at stores and cafes.
Lest We Forget. No Author 1919
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Extortionate fees was perhaps the greatest grievance of all.
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He had no better words for the Innkeepers, Merchants, and others who attended him, than to call them a parcel of Extortionate Thieves, and to vow that they were all in a conspiracy for robbing and bringing him to the Poor House.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Father of the Room, would on this Bare Pittance take tithe and toll, often in a most Extortionate manner.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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