Sentences with phrase «for vast sums»

This issue is timely today not just because of the current food shortages but because greens are calling for vast sums of money to be spent to ward off future climate change.

De Blasio has taken lots of heat for the vast sums of cash raised through the Campaign for One New York and the official actions — on Uber, on carriage horses and on other policies — that at least appeared to follow the money.

Sell for vast sums, spend the money on worthy replacements and repeat the cycle.

look at Pep at City - buying youngsters for vast sums now investing in the future.

Care for prisoners of war, relief for those threatened by starvation, and Near East Relief usually had at their head those who were motivated by their Christian faith and for the vast sums which maintained them depended chiefly on the free gifts of Christian folk.

Not exact matches

It might be tempting for some of us not to cry any tears for overprivileged colleges, run by wealthy administrators to serve the children of the affluent, which waste vast sums of money to prove how much better they are than everybody else.

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.

Using Fleming's data, that means a very small percentage of muni investors holds around $ 1.5 trillion — a vast sum of money for so few people.

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-...]

With vast sums changing hands for everything from apps to chocolate, it's no surprise that The Essence of Enterprise Report, published by HSBC Private Banking in 2017, found that a full 39 per cent of business owners around the world were considering an exit in the near future.

The liberal group People for the American Way's report on how conservative foundations have deployed vast sums to support think tanks, friendly media and other institutions that promote right - wing causes is titled «Buying a Movement.»

You want to go back in history when the Bishop's competed for the papacy by spending vast sums on mansions and gardens in order to impress their fellows.

Put energetic young people in a house, remove adult restraint, stir in vast sums of money: that, Austen thinks, is a recipe for trouble.

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.

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.

Arsenal spent vast sums of money over the past eight months, which suggests that the ambition at the club no longer revolves around qualification for the Champions League each year.

Madrid may feel it's worth it, and they haven't exactly been shy of paying vast sums of money for signings in the past, with club president Florentino Perez known for his ambitious «Galactico» policy of spending big on the world's most glamorous names.

It is plainly obvious that Barcelona for example, have vast sums of money to spend following Neymar's decision to swap Catalonia for Paris for a world record transfer fee.

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.

Critics say the state's election system makes it difficult, if not impossible, for even the most qualified candidates to win without large sums of money and vast political connections.

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.

The proposals to be considered include an increase in state funding for political parties, with the taxpayer matching small donations to encourage the parties to seek new members and small - scale donations, rather than relying on individuals giving vast sums.

On a whiteboard, they brainstormed together a list of ideal characteristics for a statewide Republican candidate, among them: resources (i.e. having money or the ability to raise vast sums), being a woman, being a political outsider, speaking Spanish and having a political base in downstate New York.

He also ruled out for the first time the option of taking public financing for his campaign, money that would have saved him the time - consuming task of raising vast sums but would have dramatically limited the amount he would have been able to raise.

Party committees and plenty of other groups with vast sums on hand will spend some of it on ads for or against Connecticut's leading candidates.

The potential is so vast that Zhang and his colleagues have struggled for ways to sum it up.

The training with Pai Mei, we learn, prepared The Bride to begin her career with Bill («jetting around the world making vast sums of money and killing for hire»), and is inserted in this movie at a time and place that makes it function like a classic cliffhanger.

Written and directed by the team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson, Sugar, It's Kind Of A Funny Story), Mississippi Grind superficially resembles Robert Altman's great California Split, in which Elliott Gould and George Segal play best friends united by their passion for winning — and then immediately losing — vast sums of money.

While a death sentence, most Loopers use the foreknowledge and vast sums of money to party like it's 2039 for the remaining 30 years of their life.

They say the issue has been ignored for too long, and accuse Labour of «wasting vast sums» on bureaucracy in its Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme of secondary school rebuilds.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is obsessed with K - 12 voucher expansion, especially in Florida where she has spent vast sums to break the separation of church and state, elect sympathetic politicians, fund a PAC with John Kirtley of Step Up for Students and served until recently on the board of Jeb's Foundation for Excellence in Education.

Speeding fines are a lucrative endeavour for the Government with cameras pulling in vast sums each year

So, of course the writers who want someone to take care of them will flock to those types and give away vast sums of money for almost no work.

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.

By the time Lind arrived in the States, Barnum had whipped up a storm of public interest about her and she successfully toured the country making vast sums for herself and Barnum until they parted ways in 1851.

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.

Making books available for library lending is an obligation which comes with the rights granted under copyright law, and is limited in very important ways which mean that it has relatively little effect on authors» earning power, and for the vast majority of them it makes up a very small proportion of their total income, so the zero - sum effect doesn't really kick in.

There are two reasons for this, says Hayler: first, because the cost of rent and staffing are higher in urban centres, and second, because there's a larger customer base willing to pay vast sums of money to dine out — especially in financial and business districts, were meals are often expensed.

You can spend vast sums not only for major appliances like ranges, fridges and freezers, but even on basics like cookware and blades ($ 400 for a Japanese sashimi knife, anyone?).

Undoubtedly the most lucrative titles in professional gaming, competitions based around the trio often involve players competing for vast multimillion - dollar sums which put them on a completely different level to many other games.

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.

«I wanted them to capture LA, so I simply gave them three key words that sum up LA for me: Vast, Light, and Modern.»

In the 1950s Sutherland was the highest paid painter in England, charging # 25,000 for a portrait (a vast sum, then) but, at the sale that I bought the Hoyland, I bid for and won a small Sutherland gouache for a modest three figures.

In a nutshell, the plan calls for squandering vast sums of taxpayer money to buy dubious «emission reductions» from other countries.

And they most certainly did not forecast, and would have been aghast had they done so, the CAGW scam, the Y2K - make - a-buck scare, the new - ice - age - scare, Al Gore's weight problem, the unbelievably vast sums to be made off of eco-appeals featuring heart - wrenching pictures of adorably cute and cuddly - looking baby harp - seals about to be clubbed to death for their fur, Ditto for photo - shopped pictures of forlorn looking polar bears adrift on ice - floes, universities stuffed with tenured climate science parasites, the improbable appearance of the NGO, watermelon life - form, and the like.

Mind you how anyone can pay that vast sum for the original I do not know.

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

The taxpayer, who also pays for NASA, is railroaded into paying vast sums to an enormous number of rent - seekers busily altering factual date to suit a political aim.