Sentences with phrase «vast sums at»

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.

Not exact matches

It means we will be able to use that money to invest in our priorities at home, such as housing, schools and the NHS, and it means the days of paying vast sums to the European Union every year are coming to an end.

They conquered vast lands, most of them already filled with Christians and Jews, many of whom did not convert at first, and their jizya poured huge sums of money into the Islamic war machine.

Care for prisoners of war, relief for those threatened by starvation, and Near East Relief usually had at their head those who were motivated by their Christian faith and for the vast sums which maintained them depended chiefly on the free gifts of Christian folk.

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

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

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.

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.

As the Obama campaign found, online fundraising also lets a campaign tap the vast number of politically interested people who can't donate hundreds or thousands of dollars at time but whose smaller donations can add up to a princely sum.

London cabbies hail him as «Bozza», he is mobbed pretty much wherever he goes and he commands vast sums of money for his speaking, writing and TV appearances, while at the same time appearing to go through life without ever buying anyone a drink.

De Blasio has taken lots of heat for the vast sums of cash raised through the Campaign for One New York and the official actions — on Uber, on carriage horses and on other policies — that at least appeared to follow the money.

Malware scammers send emails and social media messages at random with links purporting to be on something topical — news, an Advance fee lottery scams — you know, those messages that claim that you've won a vast sum of money in some overseas lottery that you've never even

The training with Pai Mei, we learn, prepared The Bride to begin her career with Bill («jetting around the world making vast sums of money and killing for hire»), and is inserted in this movie at a time and place that makes it function like a classic cliffhanger.

It's the 19th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it's the first to push to the wall, to the max, to the ultron the notion that the MCU really is a universe: a vast intermeshed thicket of comic - book icons, destined to be an army that's greater (in theory, at least) than the sum of its parts.

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?

Someone not long ago summed up concisely (too concisely, I thought at the time) the conflicts of such a mega-event: «As curator, you can never go wrong with such a massive exhibition: with such a vast number of participating artists there will always be at least five whose positions are worth special mention.»

In the 1950s Sutherland was the highest paid painter in England, charging # 25,000 for a portrait (a vast sum, then) but, at the sale that I bought the Hoyland, I bid for and won a small Sutherland gouache for a modest three figures.

Summing up The climate crisis is so vast that we need to throw everything we have at it.

One need only glance at the vast financial sums mounting even now on the climate collection plate as the plates race back up to the few who are orchestrating this climate of dread.

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.

So, it seems that vast sums have flowed from oil companies to climate alarmists, but nothing at all to Heartland.»

In fact, you can sum up the vast gulf between Romney and Obama on climate policy pretty effectively by looking at their aides» responses in this lone debate.

«Overruling Austin and McConnell would fundamentally alter the legal rules governing corporations» dating back to at least 1947, she warned, «and would make vast sums of corporate money available for overt electioneering.»

It is at this stage that the lure of litigation is at its most powerful, offering everything a litigant yearns for: complete vindication, outright success, public defeat and humiliation of the other side, and vast sums of money!

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.