Sentences with phrase «ridiculous sums of»

Spectral considerations matter despite what idiots who ignore them argue with their ridiculous sums of radiative flux from the Sun and the Earth as taught in Universities and alarmist sites.

Since the game's content pre-dates Tony Hawk 3, where the revert allowed you to chain together ridiculous sums of tricks, it feels a little weird and a little satisfying to have to pull off some crazier leaps and tricks to make the biggest combos work.

Before players could pay ridiculous sums of money for in - game items, developers made players do some pretty ridiculous things in order to obtain certain items.

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.

There are a couple of great scenes where he tries to hide ridiculous sums of cash but has run out of decent hiding places.

One of the most confusing things about cloth diapers (other than how some people will pay ridiculous sums of money for unusual prints) is stripping diapers.

Several clubs have had ridiculous sums of money.

There have been instances of bookmakers stopping taking bets on matches involving lower league teams after some irregular bets with ridiculous sums of money being placed on matches that had less than 500 spectators.

One moment we are complaining about spending ridiculous sums of money on has been players of stupid contracts, then when the club finally wake up and start to look for young hungry players on sinsible wages, we start calling them cheap!!

And despite the likes of Chelsea, Man City and now Man United spending ridiculous sums of money on transfer fees and wages, they never will.

We also have a transfer market that has gone completely insane, with average players like Morata being bandied around for ridiculous sums of around # 70/80 million!

There is a fear that if Arsenal give them ridiculous sums of money to stay, they could throw their toys out of the pram once more when things go wrong.

For years economists — not to mention everyday Americans hanging out on bar stools or on Twitter — have argued about why even mediocre CEOs get paid such ridiculous sums of money.

Arsenal already have a plethora of brilliant midfielders, but the report reckons that Wenger would try to buy a player that United paid the ridiculous sum of # 59.7 m to Real Madrid just one year ago.

However despite this, you must admit, it is also a ridiculous sum of money to say «no thank you» to.

Oh well, I don't think we'll offer an incredible amount, he's too young and the stats don't say he's worth a ridiculous sum of money.

It's a ridiculous sum of money and not on.

Even knowing full well how popular the game is, you may still be left asking how such a ridiculous sum of money came about.

That is a ridiculous sum of money.

It wasn't a ridiculous sum of money and, to my surprise, the budget worked.

Chances are, a party is not going to pay an expert a ridiculous sum of money if they know that they are going to testify in a way that hurts their case.

It might be if you assume that Facebook itself is overvalued and therefore was able to pay a ridiculous sum of money for a small startup.

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BI tech reporter Antonio Villas - Boas summed it up perfectly in his review of electric skateboard Boosted Board: «One thing is for sure, electric skateboards are way cooler and way more fun than those ridiculous hoverboards.»

Although I've found it very cathartic to speak, vent and end occasionally rant about all things Arsenal, we need to act carefully and intelligently right now or we're going to get played by this club even worse than at present... the pro-Wengerites and the suits, who represent a considerable proportion of the season ticket holders, don't want to believe that there is no plan and that Wenger has mailed it in for several years now or that things are going to get much worse before they get better... why would they... many have spent a considerable sum buying some of the highest priced tickets in the World... they want to have a front row seat to see something special and to be seen doing so, which simply provides ample justification for the expense and the time invested... to many of them, Wenger is the sun in their soccer universe... his awkward disposition, misplaced arrogance and his utter lack of balls makes him a rather unusual cult figure, but the cerebral narrative seemed to embolden those who already felt pretty highly of themselves... many might not even of really liked football that much before his arrival and rarely games they weren't attending... as such, they desperately believe that Wenger, and only Wenger, can supply them with their required fix... if he goes, they were wrong and that's a tough pill to swallow... they would have to admit that they were duped... they will definitely resent whoever made them feel this way, but of course it will be too late by then... so when we go overboard with ridiculous comments bordering of anarchy, it scares the shit out of them and they shift their blame towards us rather than at those who really perpetrated this act of treason... we aren't the enemy... we simply woke much earlier and the reason our comments have gotten more vile in recent years is out of utter frustration... in order for any real change to occur at this club we need to bring as many supporters as possible with us or the big money interests will fade and our ultimate objective will be lost... so it's time to focus on the head instead of the heart for now

This simple line sums up all the ridiculous discussions we see for ARSENAL Football Club for the past couple of years.

The Chinese season has just finished and all the moneybags over in Asia are looking to poach more European stars ahead of next years battles and are willing to pay ridiculous sums in transfer fees and wages.

To let him for the paltry sum of 2.7 million would be ridiculous..

So, to sum it up, it's safe to say that better service and better finishing — which has boosted his confidence to create a multiplier effect of sorts — has been the magic combination for Ronaldo's mind - bogglingly ridiculous 2018.

In the face of all that relative sanity, The Daily Mirror just dropped the mother of all ridiculous transfer rumors on us, suggesting that Roma are attempting to lure Chelsea's 20 - year - old star centerback in the making, Kurt Zouma, to the capital for the tidy sum of # 25 million, or roughly $ 35 million.

(1) Your question is based on the ridiculous assumption that economy and politics is a zero sum game and that somehow being «for» middle class means you're «against» (or «don't care about») poor; (2) Leaving that aside, championing the case of 75 % of population over 25 % seems like a lot less of a political suicide than championing the case of 25 % over the 75 %, unless I don't quite understand how voting works in a democracy.

The film closes on a little girl who plays JonBenét strutting down the hallway to «There She Is, Miss America,» which sums the movie up well: It's both beautiful and ridiculous, emblematic of an American obsession with over-the-top spectacle and lurid crime.

There are certain vehicles that still exist simply because they're ridiculous enough that people pay huge sums of money for them.

We will be able to afford this by getting rid of our current book tours — which spend ridiculous sums on 4 - star hotel suites that exhausted authors hardly see — and we will spread that money across our entire stable of authors.

Colour, thick - lined cartoon stylings and ridiculous action define the joyful case of Sunset Overdrive, which unsurprisingly sums up the insanely over-the-top Xbox One exclusive rather well.

If it were not for the enormous sums of money involved, CAGW would have been laughed out of existence long ago as a ridiculous conjecture based on invalid assumptions that disregard water vapor and clouds.

«Its ten pages of text are filled with gems of junk science, which are summed up in this ridiculous pontification: «Long - term changes in climate will produce more extreme weather events and put greater stress on critical Earth systems like oceans, freshwater, and biodiversity.