Sentences with phrase «as vast sums»

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The Chinese have been active recently in both the mining and the broader Canadian resource sector, and they will continue to be, trying to cycle their vast sums of capital into hard assets as fast as they can.

But if everyone is earning vast sums and taking great risks as a result, it doesn't mean that pay is on target.

THE whole picture of industry, business, and amusements, then, may be summed up by repeating that while there are certain industries which Jews dominate and certain industries in which Jewish participation is considerable there are also vast industrial fields, generally reckoned as the most typical of our civilization, in which they play a part so inconsiderable as not to count in the total picture.

A «hard - money» philosophy thus has led Russia to pay vast sums of interest to the world's investment bankers for the privilege of printing currency that it could just as well do for itself.

It means we will be able to use that money to invest in our priorities at home, such as housing, schools and the NHS, and it means the days of paying vast sums to the European Union every year are coming to an end.

But as a corporation, the Basij reportedly accumulated vast sums through so - called interest - free financial institutions that the Basij and the IRGC established in mid-1980s and the early 1990s to provide social housing and general welfare to their members.

Vast sums are flowing unchecked around the world as never before — whether motivated by corruption, tax avoidance or investment strategy, and enabled by an ever - more - borderless economy and a proliferation of ways to move and hide assets.

In recent years, oil and gas majors like Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell have invested billions of dollars into LNG projects in countries like Australia and Qatar, while further vast sums have been spent on plants that turn LNG back into gas in consuming countries, all in the belief the world's need for the fuel would rise rapidly — especially as countries, particularly in Asia, sought to move away from more polluting -LSB-...]

BC is one of few provinces with no limit on corporate donations (as is Saskatchewan, whose leading political party appears to have benefitted handsomely from vast sums of money from Alberta - based fossil fuel corporations over the last decade).

But as time goes on, little compromises, become bigger ones; tiny deviations from the original vision become `'» more relevant» mandates; the vast sums of money it takes to keep the machine going become the catalyst for where the «church» is going next.

In Wengers first 8 trophy winning years we never spent more than 13mil on a player, so to suggest we've needed vast sums of money to compete is just ignoring everything we are as a football club.

Chairman Daniel Levy has poured vast sums into his White Hart Lane squad in recent transfer windows and may deem it time for more cost effective options such as a bid for Delph.

PSG spent vast sums on big names such as Neymar this summer, as well as signing Kylian Mbappe on loan from Monaco, with BBC Sport stating at the time that the deal can be made permanent for # 165.7 million next summer.

Maximum points from their opening three matches comes as no great surprise considering the vast sums lavished by both clubs in recent seasons.

The pressure that naturally accompanies failure to secure a first win early on has now vanished, so we should see a few individuals really come out of their shells as Sunderland look to kick - on and fulfil their potential; a club who should be aiming for at least a top - half finish considering the vast sums spent in the summer bolstering their playing squad.

The Italians will reject that vast sum and only sell in January for reasons that are as clear as mud.

The big banks, having caused the crisis in the first place and led governments to borrow vast sums to come to their aid, have successfully redefined the resulting fiscal deficits as entailing cuts to public spending and social protection.

As the Obama campaign found, online fundraising also lets a campaign tap the vast number of politically interested people who can't donate hundreds or thousands of dollars at time but whose smaller donations can add up to a princely sum.

«The idea that ministers are proposing to plough vast sums of taxpayers» money into a College with the intention of allowing it to operate entirely free from political interference is risible as it is insidious.

He praised NHS architect Nye Bevan demanded the government borrow vast sums of money to rebuild the country as it did after the Second World War.

London cabbies hail him as «Bozza», he is mobbed pretty much wherever he goes and he commands vast sums of money for his speaking, writing and TV appearances, while at the same time appearing to go through life without ever buying anyone a drink.

Women can be just as risk - taking as men — or even more so — when the conventional macho measures of daring — such as betting vast sums on a football game — are replaced by less stereotypical criteria, according to new research led by the University of Exeter.

But the Cross Hatch never made sense as a one man organization, and thankfully, through the years, I've been blessed with a handful of writers willing, like myself, to work for free (or, in my case, a negative sum) for the sheer honor of writing about our era's most vibrant art form (and, of course, the promise of free comics), most notably Sarah Morean, who served as my partner for the vast majority of the site's existence.

Because Patterson's vast number of books reliably bring in a tremendous sum of money for his publisher, Little, Brown & Co. gives Patterson's books all of the attention and nurturing they need — possibly to the detriment of other books that haven't yet proven themselves as moneymakers.

Then there are the frequent cases where financial companies inexplicably lend vast sums to underemployed people, even as their debt loads balloon out of control — in one case, a senior who emigrated to Canada 15 years ago, had never worked and been on a very low disability pension since shortly after arriving, owed more than $ 200,000 in credit card debt.

Are the current large market leaders enjoying higher stock prices simply because of their position as larger weights in the overall market funds (into which vast sums of money are pouring every month), rather than because they are good profitable companies with fair valuations?

In the PC space, a vast array of options are available for players to define the experience to their own expectations, but this is as much about investing significant sums on hardware as it is about careful settings management and even then, the results can disappoint.

Someone not long ago summed up concisely (too concisely, I thought at the time) the conflicts of such a mega-event: «As curator, you can never go wrong with such a massive exhibition: with such a vast number of participating artists there will always be at least five whose positions are worth special mention.»

As the sum of its parts, «The Tempest» is a veiled yet humorous political commentary on, as Kozloff explains in the catalogue, «the way men (the cartographers and generals) explain the world to us, a world that is so much more vast, disparate, wacky, and unknowable than their pontifications.&raquAs the sum of its parts, «The Tempest» is a veiled yet humorous political commentary on, as Kozloff explains in the catalogue, «the way men (the cartographers and generals) explain the world to us, a world that is so much more vast, disparate, wacky, and unknowable than their pontifications.&raquas Kozloff explains in the catalogue, «the way men (the cartographers and generals) explain the world to us, a world that is so much more vast, disparate, wacky, and unknowable than their pontifications.»

(Greenpeace lost its Canadian tax - exempt status, but still manages to con contributors out of vast sums, to retain its status as a $ 340 - million - per - year pressure group.

Western European nations have wasted vast sums and created huge problems for their electric power systems as a result.

One need only glance at the vast financial sums mounting even now on the climate collection plate as the plates race back up to the few who are orchestrating this climate of dread.

And that vast sum of ice melt represents about 220 feet of sea level rise long term so long as the greenhouse gas melt and heat pressure remains.

(You may never see a more perfect example of hypocrisy than the climate - change movement's ironclad belief that their vast funding is one hundred percent pure and noble — even when, as Curry notes, it comes from those eeeeeevil fossil fuel companies, who donate enormous sums of money to universities and environmental groups.)

There have also been a large number of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO's), used to raise money for startups by issuing tokens / coins, which have raised vast sums of money only for the owners to disappear with all the money, whilst others have been less deliberate but have been just as devastating to investors.

Vast sums are spent user testing games and analysing behaviour as a result, but by employing large - scale analytical techniques, researchers can target this problem at the scale of populations.

I considered this as a best profile as summing up the vast experience of the candidate without losing the significance of each role handled was a challenging task.