Sentences with phrase «huge sums of money at»

The CSA threw huge sums of money at a new IT system which was intended to underpin the reforms, he says, with disastrous results.

There's been zero case law in Florida testing the new statute's constitutionality, but given the huge sums of money at stake, it's probably only a matter of time.

But as I explained to the good colonel, while I was confident I knew how to attack a hill held by an enemy, train an army, or act as a judge when a subordinate screwed up, properly accounting for the huge sums of money at my disposal was something else.

In that atmosphere, with huge sums of money at stake, greedy private individuals will find greedy politicians to corrupt.»

I never believed there would be a nine year wait for the first trophy since the move but the fact the club managed to qualify for the Champions League every season while the likes of Liverpool, Spurs, City and Chelsea were throwing huge sums of money at it — and in the case or Tottenham failing 99 percent of the time to break the top four.

In the past few months, DeWolfe has watched as start - ups with little - to - no revenue raise huge sums of money at outrageous valuations.

I'm not sure throwing that huge sum of money at stores that sell puppies is the smartest idea.

Not exact matches

That's all we need in the Oval office, a guy who was really good at skimming huge sums of money off of corporations he took over.

They conquered vast lands, most of them already filled with Christians and Jews, many of whom did not convert at first, and their jizya poured huge sums of money into the Islamic war machine.

You are looking at it from your point of view as an ordinary everyday man looking at the huge sums of money involved.

When Ronald Koeman was appointed as manager of Everton, with The Toffees spending huge sums of money, a new era of success was anticipated at Goodison Park.

Monaco recently released their asking price towards James Rodriguez as the French team will only be willing to let him go and sell him if a club is prepared to offload at least $ 75 million for the Colombian player, it still remains unclear as to whether or not Real Madrid is considering releasing that huge sum of money for Rodriguez as the club of Fiorentino Perez is also trying to seal Luis Suarez.

Saving up some money and planning your purchases over the months is a good idea so as to avoid spending a huge sum of money by buying everything at one go.

For decades, supermarket suppliers at home and abroad have been paying huge sums of money just to be able to supply UK retailers.

To invest yet more huge sums of money to expand university places would seem a little bizarre, when it's hardly a secret that huge numbers of graduates are unable to find a job at all, or else end up in employment that does not justify / require having studied for a degree in the firstplace.

In recent years, grandstand concerts at the Fair have routinely lost huge sums of money.

With such huge sums of public money at stake a Conservative government will make sure we have the professional financial controls the taxpayer has a right to expect.

«We are alarmed at the suspension of the SGF at a time that Nigerians and the international community are excitedly enjoying the theatre of the absurd playing out with the recovery of huge sums of money without owners.

The wife of the president, Aisha Buhari has shown resentment over the poor services rendered at the clinic despite the huge sum of money earmarked for its runnings.

He was eventually charged with money laundering and criminal diversion of huge sums of public fund before the Federal High Court and the Federal Capital Territory High Court at Abuja.

«Labour will stop at nothing to mislead the country and they seem willing to spend huge sums of honest taxpayers» money to achieve it.»

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday intercepted huge sums of money in various currencies totalling N250m at the popular Balogun market in Lagos.

He bristled at the prospect of «paying a huge sum of money, and supplying our stars, to foist a piece of British propaganda upon the entire world.»

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.

In reality, he's a con artist's nephew, hoping to beat Andrea, the other «orphaned scholarship student» at their shared game: to con a huge sum of money from a scummy rich kid on campus.

You just have to look at the ridiculous sums of money currently being invested into Application Store review and prioritisation technologies to see that this is already seen as a huge problem in the app market.

What is the importance of things like climate and race to the «future of mankind» that causes so much hand - wringing, such that billionaires donate huge sums of money to research institutions like the Smith School and Martin School at Oxford, The Grantham Institute, amongst a number of others, including the Tyndall Centre, to answer such questions?

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.)

At the end of this time, you get a huge lump sum amount of money back which will include the interest earned.

This is not a new thing in the tech industry, but Google's decision to offer such a huge sum of money for someone who breaches its 2015 handsets shows at how the company is committed to ensuring that its devices are extremely secure.

Unless you are after brand recognition, there is really no need of splashing out huge sums of money to get a Galaxy S or Note series device or even an iPhone when there are a lot of devices out there offering equally compelling specs and features, but at very cheap prices.

This trend increased at a more rapid rate since the 2008 global financial crisis with major governments of the world resorting to printing huge sums of money to pay national debts and also bail out banks.