Sentences with phrase «vast sums of money»

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

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.

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

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

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.

They made a big bet: we're going to bail - out / paper - over the banks to prevent massive losses in the financial sector, we're going to inflate the stock market so that the household sector feels wealthier, and we're going to make vast sums of money available for the corporate and government sectors to borrow really cheaply.»

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.

BC is one of few provinces with no limit on corporate donations (as is Saskatchewan, whose leading political party appears to have benefitted handsomely from vast sums of money from Alberta - based fossil fuel corporations over the last decade).

Had a firm invested vast sums of money in 1910 to invent the television remote control — many years before the invention of the television, multiple channels, substantial programming and a substantial viewing audience — the TV remote would not have fit into any niche in the existing economic web.

No new company could be called anything like General Electric or First National Bank... Millions of company names exist, and vast sums of money go to professional consultants in the business of creating more.

All the player companies, with vast sums of money, are steered by government boundaries of taxes and laws.

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.

Are the current large market leaders enjoying higher stock prices simply because of their position as larger weights in the overall market funds (into which vast sums of money are pouring every month), rather than because they are good profitable companies with fair valuations?

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.

«Many nations owe vast sums of money from past years and it is very unfair to the United States.

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.

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.

There have also been a large number of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO's), used to raise money for startups by issuing tokens / coins, which have raised vast sums of money only for the owners to disappear with all the money, whilst others have been less deliberate but have been just as devastating to investors.

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.

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.

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.

If you contribute vast sums of money to his campaign (Betsy DeVos), are a long - time business acquaintance (Rex...

To a very large degree, Wall Street firms are trading stocks in their own unregulated stock exchanges called dark pools, or they're lending vast sums of money to hedge funds for wild gambles, or they're making loans to highly leveraged companies to become more highly - leveraged by buying out other companies — which will likely mean lots of job cuts rather than job creation along with piles of junk debt.

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.

Most cost vast sums of money in salaries and ended up hard to shift deadwood.

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 LLC loophole allows big special interests to virtually by pass the campaign contribution limits that apply to most New Yorkers, and give politicians vast sums of money, often without clearly identifying the source,» said Kavanagh, the bill's sponsor.

He praised NHS architect Nye Bevan demanded the government borrow vast sums of money to rebuild the country as it did after the Second World War.

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.

They'd packed their firm with MBAs, a practice they now realized was a mistake because MBAs are specially trained to lose vast sums of money while somehow justifying annual bonuses the size of the Lithuanian economy.

Two centuries later Google, US president Barack Obama and businessmen Bill Gates and Richard Branson are among those with their own versions, offering vast sums of money to solve difficult conundrums.

And vast sums of the money behind the «Vote Yes» campaign came from out - of - state organizations or from major Connecticut corporations, most of who would never get involved in a local squabble, if they didn't believe that this battle was tied to important players and forces far beyond the Bridgeport City borders.

You see, all banks already use the infinite banking concept ® to lend out vast sums of money continually taking advantage of what is called the fractional reserve banking system.

Anti-competitive conduct, such as being foreclosed from a market, or having prices fixed artificially high, costs the victims vast sums of money which currently go uncompensated in the overwhelming majority of cases.

Line and others have poured vast sums of money into marketing their apps in the country but have found it hard to compete with the existing network effect that Viber enjoys there.

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.

At EdTechTeacher, we're routinely approached by schools and districts that are spending vast sums of money on new hardware, but only a few thousand dollars and a couple of early - release days on professional development.

There are two reasons for this, says Hayler: first, because the cost of rent and staffing are higher in urban centres, and second, because there's a larger customer base willing to pay vast sums of money to dine out — especially in financial and business districts, were meals are often expensed.

Vast sums of money in the bank and we're the only club in the top 5 leagues across Europe not to have signed a single outfield player all window, despite being one of the 10 richest clubs in the world.