Surcharged

New York City's storm and sanitary sewers are part of a single combined system, so when that system becomes "surcharged," stormwater (and yes, some sewage) starts to rise up into our downstairs tub and geysers out of the toilet. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The bench of justices HS Bedi and JM Panchal said it did not pass the judgement in the presence of Nisha as she was "surcharged" and "emotionally disturbed". ❋ Unknown (2010)

When I realize I am being "surcharged" so other people can have cell phones I am pissed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“How many women thus waste life away, the prey of discontent, who might have practised as physicians, regulated a farm, managed a shop, and stood erect, supported by their own industry, instead of hanging their heads surcharged with the dew of sensibility, that consumes the beauty to which it at first gave lustre.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Osborne: . . . and if we get the bombs reclassified as hand luggage we won't even be surcharged. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In fact, I predicted (as a tax policy scholar) that higher earning people would avoid marriage in order to avoid being labeled "rich" and getting surcharged by Obama. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While the decison took a while to get made, it wasn't the "shoot from the hip" management style that got us into both of these wars in the first place and there should have been a graduated income tax surcharged from the beginning. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Under Obama's new health care reforms, besides being denied coverage, procedures which are deemed cosmetic will also be surcharged. ❋ Hyleri Katzenberg (2010)

The very atmosphere he breathed was surcharged with hatred and malice, and this but served to increase the hatred and malice within him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Those states that don't bring budgets into line would be surcharged by the agency—though they would be insulated from more extreme market fluctuations—and other less profligate borrowers wouldn't suffer. ❋ Stephen Fidler (2011)

That assumption—that a monolithic hammer would eventually demolish a monolithic disease—surcharged physicians, scientists, and cancer lobbyists with vitality and energy. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

World War II had clearly surcharged medical research with new problems and new solutions; it had prompted the development of novel resuscitation techniques, research on blood and frozen plasma, on the role of adrenal steroids in shock and on cerebral and cardiac blood flow. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

The last time they tried this, via legislation they sponsored in Sacramento, a Court of Appeal blew the whistle: "The premiums for policyholders who, because of their characteristics do not qualify for a particular discount must be surcharged in an amount equal to the total of the discounts given to the policyholders that qualified for the discount" (italics added). ❋ Unknown (2010)

China ordered new stamps from Japan but they didn't arrive on time, so the government surcharged old stamps with the new values. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Oddly enough, neither train tickets, movie theaters, nor restaurant meals are surcharged on weekends. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Your mom, who you known quite the [ATM machine], doesn't mind the [surcharge] with my friend, [Nikki]. What fun she is. ❋ Craig From Philly (2010)

Me: Hello is this Chase? [Villainous] Usurious Bank Monkey (VUBM): Yes it is Me: What is this $15.00 fee on my statement for date 12/15? VUBM: You withdrew money from a [Bank of America] ATM. Me: That is true, but this penalty seems both [exorbitant] and unfair. VUBM: I am sorry sir but that is our standard Surcharge Sodomy fee. Me: I see....(expletive) ❋ LEVIATHAN1000 (2010)

"[A friend of mine] [offered] to help me change my oil, but I'd rather pay the Laziness Surcharge Fee and take it to a place where all I have to do is [read a magazine] and wait." ❋ Nitebred (2009)

Because your damn head is so big and this [haircut] is gonna take longer than it should I must [apply] the $5 big head surcharge to your [bill]. ❋ Badsean (2006)

"Look at this T-shirt for ladies, hmm same design as [the men's] shirt, $4 less than the men's shirt." "Oh! Look at this hoodie $100 for it and the male version is $120" "Yes welcome to the real world [fuckwad] you have been outright [sacked], hit hard with the scrotum surcharge. ❋ Glanced @ The Pants Lance (2023)