Sentences with phrase «ridiculous sums on»

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.

The ridiculous sums on offer was highlighted by Ozil in his new book, where he revealed: «When I got an offer from China last summer I didn't need advice because the offer was too absurd,»

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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.

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

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

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.

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!!

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.

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.

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.