If it weren't for those eleven saving clauses under the head of "Deductions" I should be beggar every year to support this extortionate and tyrannical government.
Western luxury-goods firms may be able to tolerate extortionate rents for central locations.
Having tried to raise taxes on agricultural exports to extortionate levels, she turned the resulting dispute with angry farmers into a trial of strength which she lost.
Icelanders claim that charging 5.5% interest over 15 years is extortionate in an era of near-zero base rates.
Optimists will argue that the extortionate oil prices of July were an aberration, the result of unwholesome speculation divorced from the reality of supply and demand.
