Sentences with phrase «vast sums of money for»

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.

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.

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.

Using Fleming's data, that means a very small percentage of muni investors holds around $ 1.5 trillion — a vast sum of money for so few people.

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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.

A «hard - money» philosophy thus has led Russia to pay vast sums of interest to the world's investment bankers for the privilege of printing currency that it could just as well do for itself.

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

But as time goes on, little compromises, become bigger ones; tiny deviations from the original vision become `'» more relevant» mandates; the vast sums of money it takes to keep the machine going become the catalyst for where the «church» is going next.

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 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.

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.

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.

On a whiteboard, they brainstormed together a list of ideal characteristics for a statewide Republican candidate, among them: resources (i.e. having money or the ability to raise vast sums), being a woman, being a political outsider, speaking Spanish and having a political base in downstate New York.

He also ruled out for the first time the option of taking public financing for his campaign, money that would have saved him the time - consuming task of raising vast sums but would have dramatically limited the amount he would have been able to raise.

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.

Written and directed by the team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson, Sugar, It's Kind Of A Funny Story), Mississippi Grind superficially resembles Robert Altman's great California Split, in which Elliott Gould and George Segal play best friends united by their passion for winning — and then immediately losing — vast sums of moneof Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson, Sugar, It's Kind Of A Funny Story), Mississippi Grind superficially resembles Robert Altman's great California Split, in which Elliott Gould and George Segal play best friends united by their passion for winning — and then immediately losing — vast sums of moneOf A Funny Story), Mississippi Grind superficially resembles Robert Altman's great California Split, in which Elliott Gould and George Segal play best friends united by their passion for winning — and then immediately losing — vast sums of moneof money.

While a death sentence, most Loopers use the foreknowledge and vast sums of money to party like it's 2039 for the remaining 30 years of their life.

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.

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.

In a nutshell, the plan calls for squandering vast sums of taxpayer money to buy dubious «emission reductions» from other countries.

Vast sums of money are being squandered, thereby severely complicating solving the real fatal problem: reasonably affordable supplies of energy for mankind.

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.

Absolutley — one should always follow the money, Governments have provided vast sums for scientific research but only to those scientists providing the «right» answers and supportive of their preferred political agenda, the same goes for NGOs.

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.

«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!