Sentences with phrase «in vast sums»

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

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

Alternatively, we can say in a world where national currencies and central bank currencies are no longer trustworthy because they've been created in vast sums and continue to be created to the tune of like $ 300 billion a month or more.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

This is often not just small amounts of money, but vast sums of money that resulted in zero dollars back in their pocket.

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.

If the vast sums invested in government securities could begin to be switched into the stock market, the effect would be to bid up equity prices.

Since then, he's run over a dozen websites of his own, and is a frequent consultant to some of the biggest online marketers in the business, where he shows them how to capture the vast sums of money they're leaving on the table.

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.

This might leave cryptocurrency investors in the dark in the event of «[thefts] of vast sums of virtual currency from customer accounts, sudden and poorly explained trading outages, possible market manipulation, and difficulties when withdrawing funds from accounts.»

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-..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-..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-..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-..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-..in Asia, sought to move away from more polluting -LSB-...]

But lining his pockets with vast sums of public money is the least of the problems with Trump's conduct in this regard.

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.

This is a critical issue, especially in light of severely imbalanced digital asset economies, wherein founders have frequently retained vast sums of the very cryptocurrencies that they created.

One is left amazed that the political system directed Johnson's energies toward good works, but also wary of the legacy he left, in which American politics would be dominated more than ever by publicists, soundbytes, and vast sums of money.

This is a rather important ethical point, because the worst religious charlatans have exploited people's gullibility and desire to believe in miracles and especially miraculous cures in order to take vast sums of money from people who really can't afford to be giving any away, least of all to con - artists like faith healers.

Vast sums of money and resources are invested in the creation, mainly through the mass media, of «needs» which otherwise would not exist.

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.

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

Jose Mourinho has spent vast sums of money and brought eight players to Manchester United in his two seasons at the club so far.

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.

The striker would cost Arsenal around # 35 million, and while the Wenger of old might not have been willing to spend such vast sums, the ending of Arsenal's stadium debt and the new Premier League TV deal mean the Arsenal boss has been happier to part with the club's cash in recent seasons.

Kroenke is utter poison to our club and he and his lep dog Gazidis will noty move from the club they would need to be forced and that wont happen until someone sells their shares to Usmanov, which in turn wont happen until someone gets dissatisfied with the vast sums of money they are all making by raping and robbing the fans.

He has taken out of the club vast sums of money and not put much back in that time.

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.

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.

Speaking to Sky Sport Italia, the 29 - year - old stressed that he has no intention of leaving the Capital outfit despite the vast sums on offer in other parts of the world.

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.

And he didn't stop there, taking the chance to swat criticism of the vast sums spent on PCC elections last Thursday aside by noting that former DPM John Prescott had lost the election in Humberside.

But the vast sums of cash REBNY and its associates invest on the political scene — which according to good - government group Common Cause New York has totaled more than $ 44 million in state and local races since 2005 — should help Spinola's successor quickly find his footing with Cuomo.

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.

The question is, why did they choose to spend such vast sums on extending targeted services to the middle class, while making such severe cuts to the welfare of the poorest in our society?

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.

Malware scammers send emails and social media messages at random with links purporting to be on something topical — news, an Advance fee lottery scams — you know, those messages that claim that you've won a vast sum of money in some overseas lottery that you've never even

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.

It's the 19th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it's the first to push to the wall, to the max, to the ultron the notion that the MCU really is a universe: a vast intermeshed thicket of comic - book icons, destined to be an army that's greater (in theory, at least) than the sum of its parts.

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.

Quizzical - looking Damian Lewis will star alongside diminutive character player Paul Giamatti in this story that dissects the way the cookie crumbles in the affluent section of The Big Apple, a place where vast sums are mere drops in the ocean.

However, in recent years a number of scholars have questioned the vast sums being devoted to educational technology.

The possibilities of mobile learning are so vast and wide - reaching, we couldn't just sum them up in a single article.

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.

Instead of sending the vast sums of money that schools needed to make a dent in its goal, Congress simply sent testing mandates to every school.

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.

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.