Sentences with phrase «spend vast sums»

So let them spend vast sums to hire more experts and address social emotional issues... all the while things get worse and worse.

The only thing different here (to most examples) is that we're being asked to trust the scientific method * in the short - term * when it can only be relied upon in the long - term, and to spend vast sums on the weight of it.

This analysis should be conducted now, before we spend vast sums trying to mitigate global warming (and even then, one can make a very good argument that adapting to warming is cheaper than preventing it, but again that's a different post).

The bad news is that the world seems poised to spend vast sums on ineffective global warming policies.

Knitters swap rare patterns, go to conferences and crafting festivals, and spend vast sums of cash on hoards of yarn they can never possibly use in one lifetime, and form communities of likeminded, hardcore knitters where they talk in indecipherable slang and occasionally slag on the newbies trying to put together their first pair of socks.

Kids these days have extravagant lists of objects they desire, and parents are all too happy to spend vast sums of money to acquire them.

No one wants to spend vast sums on medication when a little bit of examination may save you considerable money and grief.

You can spend vast sums not only for major appliances like ranges, fridges and freezers, but even on basics like cookware and blades ($ 400 for a Japanese sashimi knife, anyone?).

The super-rich spend vast sums of money to own the world's most desirable cars but which are the most expensive ever sold at auction?

You want to go back in history when the Bishop's competed for the papacy by spending vast sums on mansions and gardens in order to impress their fellows.

Jose Mourinho has spent vast sums of money and brought eight players to Manchester United in his two seasons at the club so far.

Arsene Wenger needs a striker and whilst he supposedly has a big transfer warchest the idea of spending vast sums of cash on a single player is still alien to the Gunners boss.

PSG spent vast sums on big names such as Neymar this summer, as well as signing Kylian Mbappe on loan from Monaco, with BBC Sport stating at the time that the deal can be made permanent for # 165.7 million next summer.

Arsenal spent vast sums of money over the past eight months, which suggests that the ambition at the club no longer revolves around qualification for the Champions League each year.

It is Barnes» contention that he spent vast sums of money on Spinks.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is obsessed with K - 12 voucher expansion, especially in Florida where she has spent vast sums to break the separation of church and state, elect sympathetic politicians, fund a PAC with John Kirtley of Step Up for Students and served until recently on the board of Jeb's Foundation for Excellence in Education.

There have been examples of gamers spending vast sums of money trying to unlock boxes to achieve a new level and it was good to see Gabrielson admit that his company made a mistake.

gamers spending vast sums of money trying to unlock boxes to achieve a new level and it was good to see

If pollution, CO2 emissions and fossil fuel consumption are your concern, getting people to drive more fuel - efficient cars could be achieved at low cost through legislation, and would make more of a difference than spending vast sums to extend railway passenger services.

What if we spent the vast sums of money making petrol or diesel motors more efficient instead of the elegantly engineered heat - robinson lash ups combining 2 technologies that do nt work so well small scale?

Facebook has spent vast sums of money acquiring talent and technology, but the multi-pronged effort has lacked a centralized focus that the company now hopes to have by unifying its various hardware teams under Bosworth.

By now the pathology is firmly entrenched and the targeted parent has spent vast sums of money in the legal and mental health systems.

Not exact matches

In recent years, oil and gas majors like Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell have invested billions of dollars into LNG projects in countries like Australia and Qatar, while further vast sums have been spent on plants that turn LNG back into gas in consuming countries, all in the belief the world's need for the fuel would rise rapidly — especially as countries, particularly in Asia, sought to move away from more polluting -LSB-...]

If getting countries not - poor were just a matter of money, the vast sums that have been spent on development assistance since the era of de-colonization would have done the job.

In Wengers first 8 trophy winning years we never spent more than 13mil on a player, so to suggest we've needed vast sums of money to compete is just ignoring everything we are as a football club.

The striker would cost Arsenal around # 35 million, and while the Wenger of old might not have been willing to spend such vast sums, the ending of Arsenal's stadium debt and the new Premier League TV deal mean the Arsenal boss has been happier to part with the club's cash in recent seasons.

the club had an 80 million war chest to spend on top of its profit last summer, thats not taking into consideration how much was left over from the summer before, and they then had an injection of cash from the BT sports deal of circa 120 million on top of the 80 million so, where did that vast sum of money go?

Madrid may feel it's worth it, and they haven't exactly been shy of paying vast sums of money for signings in the past, with club president Florentino Perez known for his ambitious «Galactico» policy of spending big on the world's most glamorous names.

That, sadly, is an increasingly rare commodity among too many English clubs, who spend absurdly vast sums on middling players thanks to the riches of the Premier League TV deal.

It is plainly obvious that Barcelona for example, have vast sums of money to spend following Neymar's decision to swap Catalonia for Paris for a world record transfer fee.

The pressure that naturally accompanies failure to secure a first win early on has now vanished, so we should see a few individuals really come out of their shells as Sunderland look to kick - on and fulfil their potential; a club who should be aiming for at least a top - half finish considering the vast sums spent in the summer bolstering their playing squad.

Sell for vast sums, spend the money on worthy replacements and repeat the cycle.

Spurs» hierarchy are currently concentrating on the development of their new stadium due to open next summer, but this is unlikely to have an impact on their transfer spending with the vast sums being generated through the Premier League TV revenue.

The big banks, having caused the crisis in the first place and led governments to borrow vast sums to come to their aid, have successfully redefined the resulting fiscal deficits as entailing cuts to public spending and social protection.

And he didn't stop there, taking the chance to swat criticism of the vast sums spent on PCC elections last Thursday aside by noting that former DPM John Prescott had lost the election in Humberside.

The question is, why did they choose to spend such vast sums on extending targeted services to the middle class, while making such severe cuts to the welfare of the poorest in our society?

Party committees and plenty of other groups with vast sums on hand will spend some of it on ads for or against Connecticut's leading candidates.

Considering the vast sums that have been spent on developing these devices, it's always seemed odd to me that they would trumpet their e-reading devices and commitment to book readers, then ship a product that aims to fulfill these promises... but only in one of these fonts:

Ramona Reed tends to give away vast sums to strangers in need, but she has also had periods when she spent recklessly on herself.

Although 2011 has seen a slight improvement and witnessed the rate of household income spent on debt services fall from 13 % to 11 %, the good citizens of America are still investing vast sums of money into outsourcing the management of their debt.

And now they will spend vast additional sums to try to geoengineer their way out of the problems created by the first set of policies and subsidies?

Global warming is a particular difficult science because of the vast sums being spent by vested interests in fossil fuels to encourage doubt in the results.

To quote Malcom; Global warming is a particular difficult science because of the vast sums being spent by vested interests in fossil fuels to encourage doubt in the results.

Given the vast sums already spent, this is an important issue.

Meanwhile, in the UK vast sums are spent on prosecuting individuals and trying vainly to interrupt the flow of drugs into cities, carried along «county lines» by vulnerable children.

Vast sums spent, little actual usable power, and rapidly increasing electricity bills for consumers, all due to (in my view, unfounded) fears of carbon - caused global warming.

This issue is timely today not just because of the current food shortages but because greens are calling for vast sums of money to be spent to ward off future climate change.

Vast sums are spent user testing games and analysing behaviour as a result, but by employing large - scale analytical techniques, researchers can target this problem at the scale of populations.