Sentences with phrase «money as bait»

Isn't he dangling his money as bait?

Using money as bait, George Steinbrenner and three other owners are out to hook baseball's strikeout king, now a free agent

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When money is used as bait, it can undermine empowerment.

Instagram's incorporation of advertisements is intended to entice brands to spend money sponsoring content, using the app's 150 million habitual users as bait.

They could do things like spend money on Hector Olivera, then use him as bait to acquire Alex Wood.

I intend to use the spectre of fighting the winner of Linares / Lomachenko as bait to leverage a lot of money out of Showtime and will make statements consistent with setting up that fight.

He says he's working to get approval for the commission that Riverhead Town has advocated as a way of fast - tracking projects at EPCAL and, among other things, has been instrumental in establishing the Stony Brook Business Incubator in Calverton; has secured grant money for the J. Kings food processing facility in Baiting Hollow; and has helped to create a synergy among the three East End hospitals.

Dear friends, For about as long as Russian and Ukrainian online dating has been around, major money scams have existed with people being baited into sending scammers money or allowing them access to their...

There are some dating services that use substitutes and «bait and switch» schemes to extract money for communication with fake personas, posing as pretty girls seeking love internationally.

In the past dozen years, he has mostly got stuck in a loop of romantic comedies, deploying that low, indolent drawl of his as a tool of come - hither charm; it's no less effective in «Killer Joe,» but the snares in his voice are now baited with money and lust.

Adapted from Michael Lewis's bestselling book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Adam McKay's stylized comedic take on the international banking collapse of 2007 - 08 nerds up Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt and an Oscar - baiting Christian Bale as real - life money - managing eccentrics who, independently, come to realize a market based on subprime loans is going to tank.

(Murray's staffers had baited DeVos» with a question about students defrauded by Trump University who received some money back in a $ 25 million settlement, prompting DeVos» staffers to note that «Trump University was not a recipient of federal student aid, nor an accredited college or university, and therefore would not fall under my jurisdiction as Secretary of Education.»)

On the Amazon side, B&N simply doesn't have deep enough pockets to lose money on both hardware and ebooks as long as Bezos can, so it's time to cut bait.

So as volatility has spiked, perhaps the free money has proven to be the bait of a mousetrap.

Whether sold to a laboratory for vivisection and experimentation, or as bait to train fighting dogs, cats and dogs of all breeds and ages are easy money for opportunistic thieves.

Some stores can make money by selling items more commonly thought to be used as bait for fishing rather than for feeding ornamental fish.

In a tweet, he posted a screenshot showing a conspicuously floating bubble over the Edge browser icon, asking the user click - bait questions such as whether he wants to earn money while surfing with Edge.