Sentences with phrase «about huge sums of money»

He also spoke about huge sums of money spent to buy votes.

Not exact matches

Then Wenger will cry about how we can't compete financially with anyone although huge sums of money are wasted on ballerina midfielders.

With the current climate in modern day football, huge sums of money are being thrown about, so # 12m for a talent with the calibre of Saido Berahino has got to be worth the risk.

I accept that Barca, for instance were helped by the city authority some years ago, when the bought the training ground for some $ 200m, but the truth is, in the modern football world major success is only possible by tossing huge sums of money about.

Asked what he would do if presented with huge sums of money to coach in China, Conte replied: «For sure, you can think for one second, or 10 seconds, but it's very difficult not to think about it.

«The other issues for example is the fraud and the corruption that is associated with large sums of money given out by the past National Security Adviser which went to several political figures and again these were huge sums of money, over $ 2bn and the sheer size and the enormity of what we are talking about, must not be diminished in any way or trivialised in anyway by any suggestion that it is partisan.

If you're about to make some huge commitment, like buying plane tickets to visit them or give them a large sum of money (please don't do this!)

And based on student - growth measures, schools getting these huge sums of money are progressing at about the same rate as other schools in the state.

Kids who out of school control large sums of money and have huge choices on how they spend it have almost no choices at all about how they are educated — they are, for the most part, just herded into classrooms and told what to do and when to do it.

Thank you for the info Vinny, now I think I see, You'd like a blog about marketing from lil» ol' me, Promote only when you are in a happy mood, And never promote your books by being far too rude, Try to make your posts interesting, clever and funny, And try not to part with a large amount of money, Now I feel there is one thing I should stress, Never go and give your cash to a vanity press, Blog, tweet and update your Facebook status as often as you can, Make contact with other authors and befriend your only fan, Be courteous, considerate and always be kind, And you will slowly find, You'll get people interested and make them all see, Especially when you give your book away for free, Sit back, relax and be rather nice, And always think about the price, People will not part with their cash unless the price is low, Particularly for an author they do not even know, Always remember to write purely for fun, Never think that your profit will be a huge great sum, And pray for exposure to the lord above, Because self - publishing is a labour of love,

As readers of Planet3.0 might know I have been somewhat critical about the anti-pipelines movement (be it Keystone XL, Northern Gateway, Kinder Morgan or something else), my basic position (check the link for something more substantial) is that as long as selling the tar sand bitumen is massively profitable then the anti-pipeline strategy boils down to getting governments and corporations to turn their backs and walk away from huge sums of money.

The mechanisms such interests use are many — influencing election outcomes by injecting huge sums of money into them (see the NYT editorial on the KOch Brothers and AB32, for example), installing fossil fuel employees in government bureaucracies (BP's ex-chief scientist is currently Head of Science at the DOE, one Steve Koonin, also of Caltech — welcome to the fossil fuel - academic complex), and distorting science to fit their agenda (witness the endless fraudulent claims about zero - emission combustion, despite the persistent absence of any stand - alone prototypes.)