Sentences with phrase «made exorbitant»

While the other women on the list have made exorbitant amounts of money this past year, none have even come close to beating Vergara's earnings.

«Investing is your only real opportunity to become financially independent, outside of making an exorbitant amount of money at your job,» says Wade.

The National Education Union will discuss proposals for a union - run supply teacher vacancy service after members demanded action on agencies that make exorbitant charges on schools but pay...

In essence, a small number of exceptionally powerful companies are avidly working to ensure that we remain hooked on fossil fuels; that they continue to make exorbitant profits refining and selling them to us.

Important things not to do when making a counter offer: Never make an exorbitant counter offer.

At the same time some agents make an exorbitant amount of money and others barely survive.

Not exact matches

And although they seem to be making efforts to address complaints, the same can't be said necessarily for the new batch of lenders, where interest rates on loans can be exorbitant, and repayment terms extreme.

Third - party contracting firm benefits aren't only less generous, but the exorbitant Silicon Valley housing prices and rents make life as a contractor so difficult workers from contract companies often can't afford to elect a benefits package, because doing so will take too much out of their paycheck.

The exorbitant cost of television advertising can cost companies hundreds - 0of - thousands of dollars, making it prohibitively expensive to place your product in front of millions of viewers.

In order for companies like UniQure to make money on these novel drugs, they'll have to be priced at an exorbitant premium, which few if any patients could ever pay.

«College is getting exorbitant, so families and their kids have to start making a plan when they are young,» he says.

As tuition prices soar, they have become masters at discreetly discussing pricing, and offering options to their customers that help make even the most exorbitant price - tag seem more reasonable and manageable.

But as if exorbitant deal costs weren't touchy enough, Tabcorp also made a hash of its half - year 12.5 cents yield, attempting to offer the Dividend Reinvestment Plan, despite the deed precluding the bookmaker from issuing more scrip while it subsumes the Queenslanders.

If you take exorbitant risks, you'll likely make a lot of money — but you're probably more likely to lose a lot of money too as soon as the winds shift.

Maybe, someday, if money managers no longer are making salaries and bonuses I consider exorbitant, my predisposition toward humans will swing my choice the other way.

The Trans - Pacific Partnership trade talks appear to be making progress and could soon put pressure on Canada to make concessions of its own, namely slashing the exorbitant tariff walls that Ottawa uses to keep foreign milk and cheese at bay.

Some speculate that the live streaming service will shift its e-sports focus (in Chinese) and use the new money to build a pan-entertainment platform encompassing entertainment programs, variety shows, e-sports and more, as the exorbitant costs related to purchases of e-sports tournament royalties, salaries of starring presenters (the signing bonus of a famous presenter can be as high as tens of millions of RMB) and content distribution network charges (can be as high as RMB 20 million every month) have made e-sports a cash - burning business.

A great way to do this would be to force them to either pay an exorbitant tax if they make a certain amount of revenue, or let them choose to invest in a smaller business and help it grow.

Yet the old - fashioned notion of «a sufficiency» — a secure, modest income, rather than a potentially exorbitant but insecure one, that allows one to form attachments, make commitments, and engage in activities that are good in themselves — is very attractive to many Americans.

I used to think guacamole was difficult to make and that is was something that just had to be bought for exorbitant amounts of money.

The first half of this season was overshadowed by the contract problems with Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil, but thankfully the Gunners refused to meet the exorbitant demands made by Alexis, but they did come to a compromise with Ozil which saw him re-sign on a massive wage of # 350,000 a week.

With Chelsea communicating that the player is not required and Costa making a statement that he is looking for a club, it is unlikely that Chelsea will slap an exorbitant price tag on him.

Their transfer policy for some time now, have been to sign already made players for exorbitant prices instead of scouting around to buy younger and cheaper players.

In Boris» own account he was more impressed by the «vast amounts of tat for sale at such exorbitant prices, [which] makes Glastonbury a wonderful lesson in the benefits of the free market».

Excess taxation — an 8.97 percent state income tax rate, 12.62 percent in New York City — along with over-regulation and exorbitant government pension costs, have made New York one of the least economically competitive states in America.

The MAN president said that the increase, if not reversed, would also make the cost of finished commodity to be too exorbitant for Lagosians to afford.

Somewhere between 10,000 - 20,000 extra vehicular trips are made daily across Canal St. to avoid these exorbitant tolls.

Cordiello, the union leader, countered in a statement Friday that union bus drivers make an average of $ 35,000 per year, which is not an exorbitant amount.

Once they start clinical trials, the pharmaceutical company only has 20 years of patent protection to recoup that cost, so they have to charge exorbitant prices to make that back and pay their shareholders a good return on their investment.

PhenQ Review works quickly and make you ready to lose the exorbitant weight.

I'm a huge fan of chains, but living in Australia has made chunky gold chains a bit hard to come by (and when I do find some — at such exorbitant prices!).

What You Need to Know: This gritty crime thriller didn't make the Oscar shortlist for Foreign Language either, but similar to «The Rocket, «it's garnering exorbitant amounts of praise.

Special effects are asked to behave like character, motivation, and narrative while the actors paid exorbitant amounts to caper by themselves before a blue screen do their best not to cackle like Snidely Whiplash making off with burlap bags that have dollar signs painted on them.

The exorbitant costs of broadband would make subsidizing broadband unsustainable (Marwell thinks that reaching lower price points would actually require increasing competition among telecom providers and a broader set of federal E-Rate policy reforms).

This was an administrator top - heavy district, where four or five of the top administrators were making over $ 100,000 in those years, an exorbitant amount for a district that had fewer than 2,000 kids.

And while its exorbitant price tag makes it the most expensive car in the country, its maddening acceleration, which can take it from 0 - 100kmph in a breathless 2.7 seconds, makes it the one of the fastest street - legal production cars on the planet.

Some clerics, seeing the hour of their own judgment before them, gave confessions and indulgences for free, but there were others who made small fortunes selling forgiveness at exorbitant rates.

What made me decide to go indie was the fact that I rarely (pretty much never) shop at B&N, and if most of my book - buying comes from Amazon, why on earth would I want someone to pay an exorbitant amount for my book?

This makes other $ 499 16 GB tablets seem expensive now, and the 16 GB 7» inch tablets now just look exorbitant.

I hope he has enough money to pay exorbitant fees for a run through spellcheck, bad formatting, a bunch of bogus «marketing,» and a print book that's priced too high to make a profit.

Many times the only option available to those with bad credit histories is to take out a loan with exorbitant fees and an interest rate that makes the whole experience not seem worth it.

Same thing as «Why do delivery places charge a delivery fee nowadays when they were created to make up for exorbitant gas prices?».

Some exchanges charge exorbitant fees for purchases made with credit cards, and card issuers might classify these purchases as cash advances — which would result in high interest rates and additional fees.

It makes no sense to close a deal with a issuer charging exorbitant rates just for the sake of it.

Betterment is an automatic investment firm that boasts some of the lowest fees in the industry (including up to 1 year for free when you sign up through this link) and makes life easier by giving you the ability to automatically rebalance your portfolio without exorbitant payments to financial advisors, yet also more control than a target retirement fund like Vanguard which makes all the decisions for you.

If you find the owed amount exorbitant, then you can negotiate with the Pinnacle Credit Services to make the owed amount affordable to pay off.

Encouraged by a bull market and the exorbitant prices companies are paying to buy start - ups, more and more people are hoping to make a killing with penny stocks.

Maybe, someday, if money managers no longer are making salaries and bonuses I consider exorbitant, my predisposition toward humans will swing my choice the other way.

[92] In 2007, Buffett made a bet with numerous managers that a simple S&P 500 index fund will outperform hedge funds that charge exorbitant fees.

The argument most employees of the industry make in favor of their exorbitant fees is: Our funds are for sophisticated investors.