Sentences with word «handsomely»

Sponges survive handsomely on their own and can even shelter other sea creatures: Scientists found a large sponge in the Gulf of Mexico hosting 16,000 snapping shrimp and 1,000 other aquatic animals.

«There is brief window of time when a rapid and forceful intervention in terms of relentless contact tracing and isolation pays off handsomely and the transmission is effectively halted and the outbreak dies out,» said co-author Professor Lone Simonsen, of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University in Washington D.C.

Although he was handsomely square of jaw, Neil Armstrong was the archetypal nerd - astronaut.

Before 2007, many university economists were happy to provide the justifications for deregulation, liberalisation and credit expansion that the financiers paid them handsomely to produce — with disastrous results.

But many are also scientists, for, as the OUP press release disarmingly admits, «Science, technology, maths are all areas that weren't treated particularly handsomely in the DNB up to now.»

What may have seemed foolhardy at the time, even to her, paid off handsomely when she landed a job with U.S. public television's premier science series, NOVA.

If you view the video of the lecture online, you might agree with me that his handsomely sculpted face looks a bit fierce, but his manner of speaking is gentle and inviting, with the quiet conviction of a visionary.

Nowhere has this sort of attention to detail paid off more handsomely than with the effort to reduce — and potentially eliminate — some of the lesser - known ailments that plague the developing world.

The effort and investment needed to make research careers more attractive will be handsomely repaid in the form of future discoveries.

In a handsomely illustrated text, Stuart catalogs the medical uses — both valuable and dubious — of a wide variety of plants.

In 1999, Motorola bought the company — it remains a Motorola subsidiary — handsomely rewarding Kayyem, Meade, and Fraser for their insight and hard work.

The idea is to control or maybe even eradicate the fish by deliberately overfishing it, but Salazar, who profits handsomely from the paiche's lean, white meat, says that would be impossible.

The White House's stringent 2005 budget rewarded FDA handsomely, proposing a rare increase of almost 9 %, to $ 1.8 billion.

It was they who lent American house buyers more money than they could hope to repay, and sold on the risk in ever more complex, opaque packages, rewarding themselves handsomely in the process.

His experience has paid off handsomely.

Industry, however, rewards these skills handsomely — just one of the reasons that this kind of work «is highly attractive: it is addressing interesting and pressing problems; it offers good pay and benefits; it offers a path out of the migratory rat - wheel of temporary postdoctoral positions, and often even encourages research and publication in fundamental topics.»

At the top of the scale are services like IdeaBounty and InnoCentive that ask for high - level input and pay handsomely for it too.

Walking into the house, I was struck by the handsomely furnished interior, including two ovens and two dishwashers; it didn't look like it was owned by a courtesy van driver making about $ 300 a week.

Each of these contacts I made by being in the right place at the right time, doing something that earned very little upfront income — but which paid off handsomely down the road.

The overlapping mandarin padded collar hugs the neck handsomely and offers it some protection as well.

PX's research on school choice, housing and Islamic extremism has added handsomely to the public square.

Murphy also used his personal wealth to overwhelm his opponents, donating handsomely to Democratic county and municipal committees to build alliances and spending $ 16 million of his own money to assure his chances of victory in the June primary.

Our party — from AD (Alliance for Democracy), to AC (Action Congress), ACN (Action Congress of Nigeria), and APC — has a way of rewarding long - standing, committed and hard - working members of our party and it has paid us handsomely.

Alliance executive director Tom Stebbins said trial lawyers have profited handsomely while driving up the cost of doing business in New York by blocking needed reforms to provisions such as the «scaffold law,» which holds contractors and property owners fully liable no matter what if workers are hurt in falls from heights under unsafe conditions.

UK Elect handsomely predicts:

Some of the biggest donors to the cuddly cause also contributed handsomely to Maloney's campaigns — and had business before the House's Financial Services Committee, which Maloney sits on.

«I want to be partisan here, we want a situation where we will win handsomely in the south east.

Its headquarters on Lower Manhattan's West Street smells like wealth, from the handsomely kitted - out coffee station on the 11th floor down to the $ 5 million, 1,800 - square - foot painting commissioned for its lobby.

He said, he was done with his opponent in his Constituency and so he was going to storm the Ablekuma South Constituency and lead the campaign so they can win handsomely.

«I don't have doubt in my mind that after March 28 election, we shall celebrate our victory because President Goodluck Jonathan shall win handsomely particularly in the southwest», he added.

Was Clive Goodman paid off handsomely when he came out of prison?

A long - serving constituency chairman for the NPP in Asokwa, Asare Bediako's entry in the race, was to win handsomely and inject professionalism in the running of the affairs of the party in the region and engender transparency, he once said.

There's the investigation into corruption at the NYPD, where officers accepted gifts from two business who also donated handsomely to Mr. de Blasio.

Even the senator's decision to switch his 2009 «no» vote on same - sex marriage to «yes» — a move for which his fellow Democrats, Queens Sen. Joe Addabbo, and four Republicans, Sens. Jim Alesi, Steve Saland, Roy McDonald and Mark Grisanti, were handsomely rewarded — didn't net him any campaign contribution love.

The Federal Government on Wednesday unveiled a new strategy towards ending corruption in official quarters as it came out with scheme that could make anyone with useful lead to be rewarded handsomely.

Chief executive Matthew Elliott said his organisation's rich list said many council executives are «rewarded handsomely even when they fail».

Hevesi admitted to using his control over the state's pension fund, now at $ 130 billion, to steer $ 250 million in investments to a private equity fund that paid him handsomely: $ 75,000 in trips to Israel and Italy for him, his adult children, and people from his staff; $ 500,000 in campaign contributions, and $ 380,000 in make - believe consulting fees to a lobbyist allied with Hank Morris, Hevesi's political guru.

Silver is accused of directing Glenwood to hire a real estate law firm run by a former aide, which then paid him handsomely for doing no work, while Skelos is charged with directing the developer to pay his son's title insurance company $ 20,000 for work it did not do.

This country stands for something better than hurting vulnerable people at the same time that we lavish more tax cuts on those who least need them and already are benefiting handsomely from the tax cuts enacted to date.»

His replacement is a tanned and handsomely coiffed Robert M. Harding of Greenberg Trauig fame.

I think we will prevail, and prevail handsomely.»

The problem is that translating these abstract, widely accepted economic principles into actual concrete policy basically means turning against the country's exporting class, the very people who have been driving — and profiting handsomely from — China's economic emergence.

Indeed with his hefty # 125,000 pay packet, «Chappers» is handsomely out - earning Graeme Wilson, the former Sun deputy political editor who has spent the last two years as Downing Street press secretary...

Because, really, reform would require closing loopholes and special favors that politicians were paid so handsomely to put into the system.

The coincidence has left those familiar with the deal dotting the lines into conclusion that the Franklin Templeton deal might have paid off handsomely, indeed!

BoJo did concede that his wasn't «the most handsomely wrapped present».

«I think people will ask themselves, why is it he is being handsomely rewarded, having presided over some serious wrongdoing?»

WORDS BY THE HANDFUL is handsomely done, just the right size, and a timely addition to children's early literature.

She enlists — well, pays handsomely, which is clearly unethical — three couples: Alice and Noah, 30 - somethings stuck in a 10 - year marital rut and dealing with infertility; Alice's free - spirited sister Fanny and her open relationship with longtime partner Zander, with whom she has a child; and Cybil and Harvey, an unhappily married middle - aged empty - nester stepfamily.

All that is required is commitment and determination, and companies pay top athletes handsomely to convey that message - Lance Armstrong comes to mind.