Sentences with phrase «spend enormous sums»

Tends to spend enormous sums refurbishing himself and for example is more likely to be found getting a manicure, waxing and applying the old St Tropez, than taking aforesaid children to the zoo.

Courts impose sometimes devastating sanctions for electronic - discovery missteps; jurors punish companies for real or imagined destruction of evidence; and American businesses spend enormous sums on vendors and technologies that seem uncertain and quickly out of date.

Charter schools like Rocketship spend enormous sums of money to help charter - friendly candidates get elected to public school boards — something public schools can't do.

That's why those groups spend enormous sums of time and money attempting to understand (and appeal to) the millennial audience.

We know that while consumers are strongly attracted to «free TV,» they also spend an enormous sum supporting it, through the purchase of their TV sets, the cost of electricity, and the add - on costs to every item they purchase which is advertised, not to mention the lost revenue in tax - deductible billions spent by advertisers.

Those same forces, big financial backers of Cuomo, are also huge players in the fight for control of the Senate and they are spending enormous sums of money to maintain or even strengthen Republican control of the chamber.

A number of states placed huge bets on professional development, spending enormous sums to train their teachers and school leaders.

Moderator Douglas Wolk from Techland.com, a long time music critic, is concerned that the comics industry will fall into the self - destructive pattern that the music industry pursued, spending enormous sums of money to try to get the digital genie back in the bottle, without doing much of anything to slow file - trading down and instead alienating many of its most ardent fans.

Many home purchasers, either in the desire to save the money that a good home inspection costs, or due to simple ignorance about what a home inspection is, have spent enormous sums of money repairing items that any good home inspector would have pointed out.

The United States government has spent enormous sums on global warming / climate change issues, including science research, although the ocean of funding is so large, fed by so many rivers of tax dollars, that it's hard to tally it all up.

Not exact matches

Charges of financial impropriety are equally unfounded; in fact, Blessed Teresa helped raise, and spent, «enormous sums of money» on the poor, and she donated funds to the Holy See, which in turn distributed them to Catholic hospitals and other good works.

whether for the right or wrong reasons, our leader chose to stay on when things took a turn of sorts... a new owner arrived on the scene, plans for a new stadium emerged and Wenger became the bearer of bad news... he sold us on a new story, one that required patience on our parts... financial constraints were the order of the day, so that the enormous sums spent on the new venue could be recouped... although some would question the validity of such claims, why wouldn't they believe their faithful leader... according to those within the hierarchy, the future never looked so bright, as this new home would ensure our place among the elites for years to come... as we all know now these claims were a well constructed fabrication and so those who feel they were duped in the process are infuriated and rightly so... the fact that this club and it's manager have continually misled the fans, especially following Gazidis's claims about our financial liquidity, simply rubbed more salt in an already gaping wound... this surely isn't how you treat your «family», especially when they supported you through the supposed «lean» years... it was a dirty trick played by Kroenke but the fact is was orchestrated by Wenger himself hurt the most... as for those in the media, many of whom are former players or longtime pundits, who observed the early years firsthand, saw this as the perfect opportunity to vent the anger they felt towards this pretentious man once and for all... all in all, karma's a bitch

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Your entire argument also neglects the fact that Milan, Juventus, Inter, Roma, Lazio and Sampdoria were all spending then - enormous sums during this time period, yet Maradona's Napoli still managed to defeat them twice.

Enormous sums are spent on improving its smallest parts.

Consider the enormous sums of money being spent to promote Physical Education in the classroom, improved access to sports facilities, and improved playgrounds for children in inner city neighborhoods.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

# 50 Billion a year is an enormous sum of tax payers money and it needs to be possible for taxpayers to ascertain how it is spent by those running Academies.