Sentences with phrase «vast sums»

I didn't start spending vast sums of money simply because I was earning more.

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.

Drug makers in particular have to invest vast sums in every new drug they try to bring to market.

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.

Candidates must worry about the present — and the present requires that one pay close attention to interest groups, especially to powerful teachers unions that pour vast sums into political campaigns.

It's possible to waste vast sums of money on child social spending too.

Canadian simply with assets are borrowing vast sums of cash to be used on consumption.

By moving to a European super league it would guarantee clubs access to vast sums without participation being linked to domestic results.

But if everyone is earning vast sums and taking great risks as a result, it doesn't mean that pay is on target.

The Peruvian government maintains there is but a single isolated tribe and that development will bring vast sums to the treasury.

If you have issues with taxes, and if vast sums are at stake, you better ask your internal taxation consultant.

The point is that he is using vast sums of money to define who has rights and who should not!

Only vast sums of money will achieve these ends.

It found that universities could charge vast sums of five times the current rate, effectively pricing out many domestic students.

When does it make sense to throw vast sums of money at a single problem?

So, of course the writers who want someone to take care of them will flock to those types and give away vast sums of money for almost no work.

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

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

Reality check — we allow it already, with highly academic schools in the independent sector charging vast sums.

This is often not just small amounts of money, but vast sums of money that resulted in zero dollars back in their pocket.

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.

Put energetic young people in a house, remove adult restraint, stir in vast sums of money: that, Austen thinks, is a recipe for trouble.

The proposals to be considered include an increase in state funding for political parties, with the taxpayer matching small donations to encourage the parties to seek new members and small - scale donations, rather than relying on individuals giving vast sums.

They noted that the Bloomberg administration made its presence felt by donating vast sums of money to Senate Republicans, a conference with few members hailing from the city.

Then there are the frequent cases where financial companies inexplicably lend vast sums to underemployed people, even as their debt loads balloon out of control — in one case, a senior who emigrated to Canada 15 years ago, had never worked and been on a very low disability pension since shortly after arriving, owed more than $ 200,000 in credit card debt.

The Hollywood of 1966 was bland and besieged, studios throwing vast sums at puffed up spectacles that found audiences ever more prone to washing their hair.

«Outside of football I own an accountancy practice and I have clients who not only owe vast sums — ten times what we owe — and are six months in arrears of PAYE but also maybe two quarters behind in their VAT, yet they don't get issued with such petitions or indeed treated as we do in football.»

These optimists, fuelled by vast sums of money and unwavering confidence in their own ability to fix things, might become world - builders on an unprecedented scale.

Interestingly, Seddon is equally scathing about the large - scale private sector providers now earning vast sums from government contracts — PFI schemes, outsourced services, large call centres, back offices etc..

Quizzical - looking Damian Lewis will star alongside diminutive character player Paul Giamatti in this story that dissects the way the cookie crumbles in the affluent section of The Big Apple, a place where vast sums are mere drops in the ocean.

The effect of implementing the Kyoto Protocol, he says, would be to transfer vast sums of money from some countries to others without reducing the emission of greenhouse gases.

The government also has pumped vast sums of money into these banks by letting them speculate against the central bank's futile attempts to defend the ruble's exchange rate, a policy whose main effect has been to subsidize capital flight.

Overseas, we have gone to war, sent vast sums of aid, and engaged in diplomacy to liberate others in similar conditions.

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?).

Hong Kong's experience shows that the process could involve spikes, drops and stumbles along the way, as vast sums of money — much of it controlled by people new to global finance — come to world markets.

so vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of government without bearing its portion of the burdens and expenses of the same, will not be looked upon acquiescently by those who have to pay the taxes....

look at Pep at City - buying youngsters for vast sums now investing in the future.

Chairman Daniel Levy has poured vast sums into his White Hart Lane squad in recent transfer windows and may deem it time for more cost effective options such as a bid for Delph.

An inventor and stenographer, Magie created «The Landlord's Game» to teach people about monopolies, unchecked capitalism, and the «evils of accruing vast sums of wealth at the expense of others.»

But big banks or companies like Google or Apple that have tens of billions don't keep such vast sums sitting in the bank.