"This is not an unreasonable price, but it's higher than we've seen."

Further, the subtext suggested that they might even be willing to pay an unreasonable price, if that was what was required of them.

To slow the selling, they can post unreasonable prices that only uninformed investors would pay, driving away sophisticated investors until emotions cool.

In Qwest's case, he said, 555 numbers were put into service at a "not unreasonable" price but can be dialed only from a few Western cities.

"They want to take it private, but not at an unreasonable price."

Those that didn't have immediate contracts named wholly unreasonable prices to the news companies, which were paid without question.

Pretty much aware of the scarcity of water in Bagong Pag-asa, she ends up selling her remaining supply for a pretty unreasonable price.

The situation today is that unreasonable people are ready, for reasons of their own, to pay unreasonable prices.

With anything beyond that, customers and local authorities could ask the F.C.C. to roll back "unreasonable prices."