Sentences with phrase «pay big dollars»

They were prepared to pay big dollars.

And it's all possible because you'll have a valuable skill people will be willing to pay big dollars for.

The days of needing to pay big dollars to get a good smartphone are dead and buried.

There's Mark Trumbo, who led the league in homers last summer, but was also traded for a backup catcher prior to the year — no one wants to get caught paying big dollars for that version of Trumbo.

Little did we realize the problems that faced so many who had gone out and paid big dollars to have printed books, to find their print publishers left them to fend for themselves.

Not exact matches

On average, BofA pays just 0.04 % on each dollar of those funds; it's those «sticky,» incredibly cheap balances that attracts its biggest shareholder: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.

So if you were to impose a tariff on all good imported overseas to drive up the value of the dollar, it would be the Chinese that would end up paying the biggest portion of the bill building the wall between U.S. and Mexico, and not the Mexicans.

It was a big hunk of dollars, 30 % of their pay.

Google came along and gave them a free operating system, which liberated them from paying big licensing dollars to Microsoft, and built the only app market besides Apple's that matters.

Here are the 10 institutions that most frequently approved the biggest CEO pay packages, according to As You Sow, with dollar amounts under management (in millions) and the percentage of outsize CEO pay deals they opposed:

Startups with no revenue typically can't afford to pay those wages, which means they're forced to shell out big dollars to hire foreign talent or to not bother at all.

Therefore, database marketers must spend big dollars to acquire customers without knowing whether their investment will ever pay off.

Pro tip: Carry around lots of dollar bills, if paying by cash, to use as «extra» when going to the till so you don't break a big note.

Consumers need a reason to pay full price, and when sales and promotions permeate the stores, it's difficult to get them to fork over the big dollars.

In starting up, paying top dollar for the biggest and best tools, gadgets and the like could cost you even more in the long run.

It was my biggest sale still to date, not in dollar volume but because it was so much fun and I got paid so much money — $ 16,000 — which was a lot of money for me.

The biggest beneficiary is the firm that generates revenues in American dollars but pays most of its expenses in Canadian ones, like CCL.

I got started freelancing over online world, by doing some fundamental assignments which definitely wanted your personal computer and usage of broadband together with I am joyful than ever before... 6 months have surpassed when i started out this and also i had cash gain total of 36 thousand dollars... Normally I make eighty dollars each and every hour and even work for three to 4 hours majority of the days.And big plus with this is that you could keep control of valuable time whenever you work and also for how long as you like but you still get a take - home pay each week.

With his $ 98 billion Vision Fund, he has barged into Silicon Valley, paying top dollar for big stakes in the ride - sharing giant Uber and the office - space company WeWork.

But Apple and other Big Tech corporations like Google and Amazon — along with much of Big Pharma and even Starbucks — have avoided paying hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes on their worldwide earnings because they don't mainly sell physical things like cars or refrigerators or television sets that they make here and ship abroad.

The island's own government borrowed billions of dollars to pay its bills, a practice that Puerto Rico's current governor, Ricardo Rosselló, now calls «a big Ponzi scheme.»

But in another sense, Uber keeps raising billions of dollars from investors to pay for its losses as it grows, so it can't easily afford to alienate all the big investors it already has.

In that scenario, by the time its next big TV deals come up in a few years, the TV networks will be less willing to pay top dollar for sports, because audiences will keep melting away — and the digital guys won't show up to replace the TV guys.

The U.S. government paid these obligations at 100 cents on the dollar, despite AIG being insolvent at the time and requiring a $ 185 billion taxpayer bailout itself for making casino - like bets with the big banks.

We saw in 2008 how weak links in the mega banking chain spilled out across Wall Street because of the invisible linkages to other banks and financial firms unknown to the public — like the fact that the big insurer, AIG, was the backer for tens of billions of dollars of credit default swaps while having no money to pay off the bets it had accepted from the biggest Wall Street firms.

When you're dealing with big clients, he's paying hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the headache you're getting from small clients can be much bigger, because for him $ 5 is like the last money.»

A big bunch used to cost one or two dollars, now you pay an extortionate eight dollars.

Sad when people want lies like a «young earth» and that «evolution is a myth» or that «some god caused» the big bang taught to their children in their schools, paid for by their tax dollars.

Hi Ed, The Pastor at the Church of Hosanna International Ministries (HIM), does not get paid he willingly shows his bank statements to the congregation, in hopes that they will understand where the money is really going and with that said he keeps 100 dollars in his account and lives off of that for a whole month and the rest of the tithes and offerings go to 13 different ministries, divided evenly and the Church helps out at least 3 - 4 missionaries and the youth group of the Church all in separate accounts, this is a Church of around 68 to 80 people every Sunday this is not a big Church but God has blessed this man beyond measure and continues to do so this Church can be found in Saint Joseph Missouri, Pastor Larry Gray.

«Over half a million workers are having hundreds of millions of dollars taken from their pay packets every year by the big end of town,» he said.

If your response is, «Pfffft, so what, they're paid millions of dollars, the big babies,» that's true!

I don't dispute our achievements but when fans are paying top dollar & the club is getting big sponsorships, I expect to at least compete with the likes of Bayern & Chelsea.

If the Hawks fire Budenholzer then they eat the entire $ 15M... what is the big deal if the Hawks do pay ALL $ 15M and allow Budenholzer to coach the Knicks for one dollar?

No COF team has played a program as big - time as the Hurricanes, but this past August Division - I Davidson College did pay the Saints few thousand dollars to make a 30 - minute drive northward.

Carvalho is earning 8K pounds week, chicken feed, but Lisbon is in debt and need big big dollars to pay the banks.

The Big sports brand Nike has paid $ 9 million Dollars to him Cristiano Ronaldo (Brand Ambassador).

After summer upon summer of Toure's agent, Dmitri Seluk, stirring the pot, and looking for suitors willing to pay top dollar for the big Ivorian, it was inevitable it would end badly at some point.

Of course, Barack Obama paid Blue State Digital and other vendors a big chunk of change for online services in 2008, but he was also raising tens (later hundreds) of millions of dollars at the time.

«We're confident,» Stefan Friedman, a Genting spokesman, said, «that once New Yorkers understand that Genting is proposing to pay for — without a dime of taxpayer money — the biggest convention center in the country, creating tens of thousands of jobs and generating untold billions of dollars in revenue for the state, support for this project will be robust.»

«We can raise hundreds of billions of dollars by closing corporate tax loopholes and assuring that the rich pay their fair share, so that big corporations and the wealthy take responsibility for contributing to building strong communities,» the party's draft platform says.

With no ability to force forfeiture of his big fat state pension I would argue that a multi-million dollar fine should be imposed and that it can be paid off at a monthly rate just slightly above what he gets as a monthly pension payment!

«These great big huge corporations that are making millions and in some cases billions of dollars can afford to pay a living wage,» he said.

It is highly ironic that Cuomo is offering NYS tax dollars to a company which holds $ 119B in profits off - shore, and is ranked as the second biggest corporate tax evader and which paid - $ 71m in state income taxes in 2014.

For many people paying a dollar extra for broccoli is a big deal, but not a big deal to pick up a case of beer on the weekend.

Our titular characters try to earn a billion dollars to pay back the money they wasted on a big movie, and myself and Germain Lussier from SlashFilm recorded a video blog reviewing the film and letting people know whether it's just for the fans.

Deadpool is inching ever closer to half a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, and 20th Century Fox's big gamble with the Marvel character's $ 58 million big - screen adaptation is paying off big - time.

The tight budgetary environment played a big supporting role in the D.C. contract, in which teachers got a 21.6 % salary boost and a bucket of bonus dollars in return for substantial concessions on job protections, seniority, and merit pay.

Choice A: Young Minnesotans with the desire to help children and teach as a career - who complete the required degrees in both education and desired subject areas, pass the state required tests, complete months of student teaching that requires them to plan for and teach full days, are hired without the district paying a private organization thousands of dollars, are paid salary and benefits negotiated through a union, are not sought out by big corporations, banks, and Wall Street because of their service and skills gained from 2 years of teaching, and continue their careers paying their own way, without discounts from grad schools, in pursuit of advanced or additional degrees.

What he failed to explain at that big press conference was that while taxpayer are on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in new borrowing to pay for the construction of new magnet schools, Malloy failed to provide the funding needed to actually open the school and fill the classrooms.

If you were investing hundreds of thousands of dollars on a bigger author... would you invest your money if they might be competing with the books you just paid for?