Sentences with phrase «vast sums not»

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?).

Not exact matches

This not only harms consumers, especially low income ones, but transfer vast sums to typically wealthy farmers and needlessly endangers our international trading relationships.

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

THE whole picture of industry, business, and amusements, then, may be summed up by repeating that while there are certain industries which Jews dominate and certain industries in which Jewish participation is considerable there are also vast industrial fields, generally reckoned as the most typical of our civilization, in which they play a part so inconsiderable as not to count in the total picture.

It might be tempting for some of us not to cry any tears for overprivileged colleges, run by wealthy administrators to serve the children of the affluent, which waste vast sums of money to prove how much better they are than everybody else.

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

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....

This is a rather important ethical point, because the worst religious charlatans have exploited people's gullibility and desire to believe in miracles and especially miraculous cures in order to take vast sums of money from people who really can't afford to be giving any away, least of all to con - artists like faith healers.

Vast sums of money and resources are invested in the creation, mainly through the mass media, of «needs» which otherwise would not exist.

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

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.

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.

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.

Football fans like to point out that Chelsea FC are a club that would not have been able to achieve their tremendous recent success without the vast sums of cash made available to them by Roman Abramovich.

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?

He has taken out of the club vast sums of money and not put much back in that time.

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.

Parents make the critically necessary sacrifice without which society would collapse like Jeb Bush's presidential campaign: We shell out vast sums of money on everything from diapers to chess camp to prepare the next generation of taxpayers, who will be funding the retirement of people like the childless / childish Meghann Foye, whose pay - me - even - if - I - didn't - do - anything attitude says not «imaginative social thinker,» but «squeegee man.»

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.

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.

Critics say the state's election system makes it difficult, if not impossible, for even the most qualified candidates to win without large sums of money and vast political connections.

The possibilities of mobile learning are so vast and wide - reaching, we couldn't just sum them up in a single article.

«Lamborghini didn't have vast sums of money.

The caller doesn't care that Mitch runs a small two - man landscaping operation and has no way of raising such a vast sum.

Because Patterson's vast number of books reliably bring in a tremendous sum of money for his publisher, Little, Brown & Co. gives Patterson's books all of the attention and nurturing they need — possibly to the detriment of other books that haven't yet proven themselves as moneymakers.

Making books available for library lending is an obligation which comes with the rights granted under copyright law, and is limited in very important ways which mean that it has relatively little effect on authors» earning power, and for the vast majority of them it makes up a very small proportion of their total income, so the zero - sum effect doesn't really kick in.

Here's the disturbing part: the vast sum money donated has seemingly vanished, and Yogscast are adamant that they are not responsible in any shape or form.

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.»

«The epic career of William Furlong is summed up in this not - to - be-missed book, a vast, brilliant anthology of transcripts from some of his most important recorded interviews with artists over the last forty years.»

With Google investing vast sums in solar, it's not just a good moral choice but a smart piece of competitive strategy.

It's important to focus on mobilising new green finance, but we also can not ignore the vast sums of capital that could go into projects surplus to 2ºC requirements.

It's important to focus on mobilising new green finance, but we also can not ignore the vast sums of capital that could go into projects surplus to 2C requirements.

And they most certainly did not forecast, and would have been aghast had they done so, the CAGW scam, the Y2K - make - a-buck scare, the new - ice - age - scare, Al Gore's weight problem, the unbelievably vast sums to be made off of eco-appeals featuring heart - wrenching pictures of adorably cute and cuddly - looking baby harp - seals about to be clubbed to death for their fur, Ditto for photo - shopped pictures of forlorn looking polar bears adrift on ice - floes, universities stuffed with tenured climate science parasites, the improbable appearance of the NGO, watermelon life - form, and the like.

Mind you how anyone can pay that vast sum for the original I do not know.

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?

There is little doubt that vast sums have not reached the Zimbabwean people.

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.

The vast sums invested into recruitment and early stage technical training are lost when firms do not follow - up with post-qualified on the job training and development.

This sum is generally not accessible for the vast majority of cases and is also secondary insurance.

Further, the NJSBA was not impressed by arguments that large sums of money had already been invested or that a «vast array of non-lawyer service providers» were already offering their services online.