Sentences with phrase «extract more and more money»

The complaint says that Bluford pretended to be an attorney, manufactured «official» court and government documents, including court orders signed by a made - up judge, and fabricated legal claims and court hearings, extracting more and more money from the plaintiffs at every step along the way.

Not exact matches

Downstream companies make money on the difference between the price of crude and the price of the refined petroleum extracted from it (a difference known as the «crack spread»), while midstreaming is a volume business (ship more oil, earn more money).

As we extract more and more oil from EOR plays, and at the same time are trying to increase quantities stored, we are going to have to move to more expensive capture opportunities and toward pure storage plays, which both increases capture costs and turns EOR revenues into a storage cost (you are not going to make money injecting CO2 into saline aquifers unless you are being paid to do so).

If and when a slump arrives, investors who have more exposure to VC and private equity firms will have a hard time extracting their money quickly, just as they did during the financial crisis.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

The atheist and agnostics understand that religions are nothing more than social control mechanisms to extract obedience and money from the plebs.

The punishment for leaving a dog out in the freezing cold to potentially die should be beyond a mere slap on the wrist, pay your fine and go back to your puppy mill to extract more blood money.

«We encourage you to investigate whether these and other predatory practices are more widespread than previously reported, whether there is a growing trend of property owners using our judicial system to intimidate or extract money or other concessions from tenants, and whether these practices are out of line with the norms and standards of our justice system and tenants» right to due process.»

«The enhanced GNF3 design will save utilities money by reducing batch fraction, lowering the average enrichment in fuel reloads and extracting more power from the core,» he said.

And the New York City public schools, rather than extracting and then wasting more of the taxpayers» money, may be forced to finally move beyond «lack of money» excuses and attempt to implement real, research - based reforAnd the New York City public schools, rather than extracting and then wasting more of the taxpayers» money, may be forced to finally move beyond «lack of money» excuses and attempt to implement real, research - based reforand then wasting more of the taxpayers» money, may be forced to finally move beyond «lack of money» excuses and attempt to implement real, research - based reforand attempt to implement real, research - based reforms.

It was time - consuming and often boring — particularly blueprinting an engine, which was a good way of extracting more money from a customer.

You do wonder if a luxury car maker has run out of ideas about how to extract more money from clients with a big bank account and chav tendencies when it resorts to -LSB-...]

Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their budgets rather than the service of their customers; pressure groups form an unholy alliance with agencies to extract more money from taxpayers for their members.

Once a migrant makes the decision to leave, there are a hundred ways his or her journey might be upended, from being stuck in a sort of prison camp run by the smugglers (who ransom their captives to extract even more money from their families), to arrest by law enforcement officers of varying degrees of legitimacy, to starvation and death by disease or exposure.

Another thing Amazon can and will likely do is pad up the vendor concession cooperative promotion money, extracting more dollars by promising to promote across more platforms.

Some people have gambled by betting (investing or hoping to get more money from employment), on specific non-renewable resources being profitably extracted and burned.

Newman professes to believe that the scientific establishment is engaged in «mass psychology» because it is «intent on exploiting the masses and extracting more money» (to what purpose he did not say).

To me, looking above and below the fold, try to capture the reality that the fossil fuel industry extracting carbon molecules from the Canadian boreal forest (e.g., Tar Sands) will make more money if Keystone XL gets built and those increased profits will, in essence, be the equivalent of picking the pockets of Americans who currently are benefitting from a «discounted» oil price.

For more on the $ 7 billion per year in taxpayer money currently being given away to the oil, gas, and coal industries to extract on public lands, see our recent report: «Unequal Exchange: How Taxpayers Shoulder the Burden of Fossil Fuel Development on Federal Lands.»

But by the turn of the 21st century, a ground rent became something more than a convenient figure to indicate a landlord and tenant relationship without much bearing on the actual value of the land: it became a means for a landlord to continue to extract money from a tenant throughout the term of a lease, regardless of the premium paid at the date of the grant.

After seven hours of discussion over five months, the ideas proffered for improving access to justice were (1) more money for legal aid (to be extracted somehow from the most indebted sub-national government in the world), (2) more e-filing, (3) more pamphlets in more languages, (4) re-purposing the Shirley Dennison fund to laud someone who does something beneficial wrt A2J, and (5) encouraging indigenous peoples to use circles of healing instead of the court system.

And with more pretexts for harassment by the state, our friends in government will have more tools available to extract money from our hides via traffic tickets and court cosAnd with more pretexts for harassment by the state, our friends in government will have more tools available to extract money from our hides via traffic tickets and court cosand court costs.

It's also true that companies keep creating new streaming services like CBS All Access and Disney's upcoming venture, all in the hopes of extracting even more money from those without cable.

That company's going to look for ways to either reduce costs or extract more money from you — and with smart devices there are plenty of ways to do that.

Remember what I said in my last column — it is better to fight because if you become known as someone who challenges and doesn't simply do whatever CRA tells you to do, they will tend to head for the person from whom they can extract money more easily.