exorbitant demands

I had no choice but to accede to your exorbitant demands.

And I think the sports owners asked for the backlash," by making exorbitant demands.

Always, the exorbitant demands rode upon military ventures.

Together, he said, the combination of pressure tactics, financial deprivation and exorbitant demands has left the Palestinians in an untenable position.

They would never call in sick, or make exorbitant demands at contract renegotiation time, or jump ship to another network.

In consequence of such exorbitant demands, disputes arose between the popes and the rulers of the island.

He contended that St. Paul was protected against any exorbitant demands because judges determine settlement sums in condemnation hearings.

"When stage hands and musicians have tried to put over exorbitant demands, we've put in talkies - and they've been crying for help ever since.

He will demand a large sum for his efforts, and in order to forestall even more exorbitant demands in the future I must haggle with him.

Charles, who was full the Medici's promises, made exorbitant demands, and finally presented an ultimatum to the signory, who rejected it.

But this came to naught, again according to Douglas, through exorbitant demands for upfront cash from both Davis and Williams.

Many Japanese have grown critical of Buddhist temples, saying the monks have grown rapacious with exorbitant demands for money for funerals and other ceremonies.

The hacktivist group Anonymous claimed responsibility for both attacks, accusing GEMA of making exorbitant demands in regarding the required licensing fees for accessed videos.

This in turn bred a feeling of alienation from the army among the Roman aristocracy which in the later 4th century began to resist the military's exorbitant demands for recruits and supplies.

To replenish the empty treasury, exorbitant demands were levied on every kind of property to the extent of from seven to ten months' income; even religious and charitable endowments not escaping.

Some aid agencies that ceded to exorbitant demands for money in return for escorts and helpers in the more dangerous days are considering reducing the vast numbers of local people they were required to hire.

The poor were harshly taxed for the Muslim government; the rich were similarly treated and driven from the city by exorbitant demands upon them, so that the Jewish community was on the brink of ruin.

Sato agreed to the uneasy deal and made preparations to pay Jimmy his exorbitant demands only for Sato's girlfriend Jenny (Faye Wong) to betray him and make off with the money to Okinawa.

Philip John Stead in The Times Literary Supplement of December 4, 1953, said, "Miss Christie's novel belongs to the comfortable branch of detective fiction; it never harrows its readers by realistic presentation of violence or emotion or by making exorbitant demands on their interest in the characters.

On June 19, the date that Douglas Hampton's June 11 letter to Fox News became public news, Ensign's office issued a statement that included the charge that "within the past month, Doug Hampton's legal counsel made exorbitant demands for cash and other financial benefits on behalf of his client."

Moreover, Finley takes the fact that the Ancient Greeks and Romans did not have a sophisticated accounting system as well as how imprecise or carefree they are about numerical data to imply the lack of an economy resembling Western modern ones that place exorbitant demands on numerical computations and precise accounting records.