How To Use Usurious In A Sentence
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They could tolerate anything except someone who tampered with their usurious money-making.
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In the US, the Democratic Representative Maxine Waters has introduced a draft bill called the Stop Vultures Act. It would ban vulture funds from seeking "usurious" payments -- defined as anything more than the purchase price of the debt plus 6 percent a year interest.
Johann Hari: We Must Stop the "Vulture Funds" That Feed on the World's Poor
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Even colder, whenever veterans balk at paying the usurious rip-off, company lawyers sue them, usually in courts far away from where the vets live.
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One of the favorite claims of payday lending opponents is that payday loans are "usurious".
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Maintenance grants should be restored for low-income students and the usurious interest rate charged on student loans reduced.
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Around twenty five percent of Australians cannot access financial services except on the most exploitative and usurious terms.
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Planters often charged usurious interest rates on credit extended to their laborers, arguing that these were necessary because of the high risks involved.
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Even after the banks have applied their usurious premium to the base rate, borrowing remains a bargain.
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Can you lend to the poor without charging usurious interest?
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In most developing countries, the informal money-lending system coupled with usurious rates of interest, sometimes as high as 200%, gives birth to a phenomenon called debt bondage.
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I had to run away from my creditor whom I made a usurious loan.
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The wolfish landlord used this chance to demand the usurious compound interest of 50% for three years.
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However, not all cards levy such usurious fees.
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Credit was tight, interest rates usuriously high.
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Some nonsense about the free market regulating and fixing itself and if we just leave it alone credit card companies will magically learn how not to behave is a usurious manner?
Sweeping bank reform bill clears House
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There are also opportunities in the lending of money to the indigent at usurious interest rates.
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The drugs industry is being criticised for usurious prices of drugs, medicines and services.
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I had to run away from my creditor whom I made a usurious loan.
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They are being charged "usurious" interest rates because the government has caused interest rates to rise to control inflation.
Letters to the editor: Dec 1995
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He called the higher rates "usurious," and the second avalanche an avoidable mistake.
JuneauEmpire.com
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However, I realized early on that if there was no bailout and banks began to fail; unemployment started to rise into the high double digits; and credit companies jacked their interest rates up into what most of us would call usurious rates, that even I might not be able to pay my mortgage should I be laid off and not be able to find another job because no one was hiring.
Evening Buzz: Bailout Vote
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The aim of the agreement, he told the assembled representatives of 45 nations, was to ‘drive the usurious moneylenders from the temple of international finance.’
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These companies, cut off from bank loans at reasonable rates of interest, had turned instead to supposedly usurious moneylenders, known as the curb market.
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Another reason frequently given for promoting cooperatives is that they would protect craftspeople from predatory middlemen and usurious moneylenders.
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To identify our current economic arrangements as usurious is to understand just how anomalous they are.
The Times Literary Supplement
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With the closure of rural banks, many farmers have been driven to borrowing from private moneylenders with usurious interest rates of 5 percent per month.
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The fact remains that banks are able to charge usuriously high interest rates because the government secures their monopoly.
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Desperate American workers are forced to rely on credit card debt at usurious interest rates to pay for basic necessities.
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There is a pervasive impression that the credit markets have "thawed" somewhat and that capital is readily available on terms that are well shy of usurious.
24/7 Wall St.
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If, however, a field be bought with the profits of usury, the usurer is bound to pay tithes on the produce, because the latter is not gotten usuriously but given by God.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Next, force people to repay usurious loans to credit card companies that make gazillions off the fine print.
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To Mr Yunus and its other critics, the Mexican bank is no better than an old-fashioned loan shark, earning its huge profits by charging poor borrowers a usurious interest rate of at least 79% a year.
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Noting that Islam prohibits "riba," or the usurious loaning of money, it stressed that sukuk bonds (Islamic law complaint securities) are always real investments and never speculative.
Columbia Daily Spectator
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She would need to take out a loan to pay him, and the bank meant to exact some usurious rate of interest.
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Depending on the faction, it demands debt relief by suspension of all interest payments (repay capital only); restructuring of debts for 12 to 15 year repayment with the first five years interest free; return of all previously seized property and equipment; and jail sentences for bankers who charge "usurious" interest rates.
The middle class revolt
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The Malaysian financier, Benedict said, demanded 29 percent interest, a usurious amount indeed.
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The tears in her voice were the payment of what must be called a usurious speculation of love.
The Lily of the Valley
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The lower courts in Ohio voided the contracts on the grounds that they were usurious loans.
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They make half their income by surprising people with enormous penalties and usurious interest rate changes if they forget to pay their phone bill one month.
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Thanks to usurious practices that are legal and common among hospital collection departments, complete financial ruin can easily befall those unable to pay their hospital bills.
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Future revenues were mortgaged against advances at usurious rates.
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Compound interest is no longer commonly thought to be usurious or to involve prohibitively complex calculations.
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On the other side of the political spectrum, liberals worry that litigation finance firms offering usurious rates prey upon a desperate clientele.
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He offered consumer credit with considerable success, and without, he stressed, charging the usurious rates of some rivals.
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Anyone with a credit card knows how the payments industry exacts money, often usuriously, with membership fees, interest, and late charges.
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Service contracts have usurious rates for out-of-contract minutes.
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The Earl of Oxford, a young unthrift, whom Foster had more than once accommodated with loans on usurious interest, acknowledged, on this appeal, that he knew him as a wealthy and independent franklin, supposed to be worth much money, and verified the certificate produced to be his handwriting.
Kenilworth
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The answer is to enter into a rent-to-loan contract, a borrowing agreement with interest rates of the usurious variety.
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With the closure of rural banks, many farmers have been driven to borrowing from private moneylenders with usurious interest rates of 5 percent per month.
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The financial deregulation he champions has led directly to the predatory, usurious lending practices that afflict the working poor.
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While these types of stores provide a needed service, they can be intimidating for some consumers and usuriously expensive.
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Students who fill classrooms and pay usuriously high interest rates for college educational dollars fund the university and college's real end product: Scholarly research and development.
Brian Ross: Rather than Race to the Top, We Should Have Started Fixing Education There
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While management has been usuriously enriching themselves, shareholders have suffered greatly.
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The unbanked often end up paying usurious fees at check-cashing establishments.
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Though contracts of this kind and under such a form cannot strictly be called usurious, yet, nevertheless, the vendors incur guilt, unless they are really doubtful whether the wares might be worth more or less at the time of payment.
An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching
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The Ohio Supreme Court thus correctly held on appeal that the contracts were not usurious loans.