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"extortionate" in Spanish
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"extortionate" in Spanish
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extortionate(also: unsuitable, excessive, outrageous)
extortionate(also: exorbitant, fabulous, fancy, outrageous)
This pushes up the price of quotas, which are rented to fishermen for extortionate amounts.
Esto es lo que provoca el aumento del precio de las cuotas, que se alquilan a los pescadores por montos exorbitantes.
extortionate(also: overmuch, exorbitant, steep, unreasonable)
extortionate(also: over-the-top, exaggerated, excessive, extravagant)
More than 90% of the prostitution in Europe arises from blackmail and extortion.
Más del 90 % de la prostitución que se ejerce en Europa proviene del chantaje y de la extorsión.
These are the latest steps in this process of interference and extortion, which is openly colonial in complexion.
Estos son los últimos avances en este proceso de injerencia y extorsión, de naturaleza abiertamente colonial.
Nationalisation of the private pension system through open extortion, just as in Bolivia.
La nacionalización del sistema privado de pensiones por medio de una extorsión abierta, al igual que en Bolivia.
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Thirdly, low quotas and the resultant extortionate fines are eating up the subsidies for the 1999 harvest.
En tercer lugar, los bajos porcentajes y las extenuantes multas que se derivan, evaporan las subvenciones incluso para la cosecha de 1999.
I too am affected and I shudder when I think of my last service bill, which was extortionate.
Yo mismo también me cuento entre los afectados y recuerdo con disgusto la última factura de la inspección de vehículos, que fue extraordinariamente alta.
that butcher charges extortionate prices
ese carnicero es un asaltante
These are institutions that have decreed the ruin of whole nations: just think of the case of Yugoslavia, first strangled by extortionate interest rates and then crushed, destroyed and dismembered.
En segundo lugar, en lo que respecta a su nombramiento en sí, es preciso clarificar las normas que rigen qué Estados miembros de la zona euro obtienen plazas en el Consejo del BCE.
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