usury造句

He made money by practicing usury.

The interest of usury is unfairly high.

First, the medievals banned usury, or charging interest on loans.

Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury;

Serf-owners ruthlessly exploited serfs through corvee and usury.

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

We need to reinstate a national usury law for consumer interest.

We are opposed to the exploitation of developing countries by usury or blackmail in the name of aid.

This is absurd usury and should be illegal as it is not helping anyone except the lender.

The ones that practised usury had made a slap on the face of mine, the tiger bites three people in order to rescue me.

Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother.

Contractors who are big operators can even practise usury deal in real estate or run tea-houses bath-houses or hairdressing businesses.

The stage of commodity production with which civilization begins is distinguished economically by the introduction of (1) metal money, and with it money capital, interest and usury;

Jews in medieval Italy, unrestrained by the Catholic ban on usury, advanced money at high interest rates to grain farmers to secure an option on their crops and then shipped the grain.

The two bankers, Phelps and Elder, sat off in a corner behind the dinner table, where they could finish their discussion of the new usury law and its effect on chattel security loans.

The serfs engaged in hard labor year in and year out and yet had no guaranteed food or clothing. Often they had to rely on money borrowed at usury to keep body and soul together.

If in lending, the demand for in-kind as principal and interest repayment, or to borrow cash and in kind to be interest in more than 20% per annum can be considered as persons usury.