Sentences with phrase «vast sums on»

The only thing different here (to most examples) is that we're being asked to trust the scientific method * in the short - term * when it can only be relied upon in the long - term, and to spend vast sums on the weight of it.

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

No one wants to spend vast sums on medication when a little bit of examination may save you considerable money and grief.

Women can be just as risk - taking as men — or even more so — when the conventional macho measures of daring — such as betting vast sums on a football game — are replaced by less stereotypical criteria, according to new research led by the University of Exeter.

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.

The question is, why did they choose to spend such vast sums on extending targeted services to the middle class, while making such severe cuts to the welfare of the poorest in our society?

Speaking to Sky Sport Italia, the 29 - year - old stressed that he has no intention of leaving the Capital outfit despite the vast sums on offer in other parts of the world.

That, sadly, is an increasingly rare commodity among too many English clubs, who spend absurdly vast sums on middling players thanks to the riches of the Premier League TV deal.

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.

You want to go back in history when the Bishop's competed for the papacy by spending vast sums on mansions and gardens in order to impress their fellows.

Not exact matches

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

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

Since then, he's run over a dozen websites of his own, and is a frequent consultant to some of the biggest online marketers in the business, where he shows them how to capture the vast sums of money they're leaving on the table.

The vast sums of money involved can compromise legitimate economies and have a direct impact on governments through the corruption of public officials.

In recent years, oil and gas majors like Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell have invested billions of dollars into LNG projects in countries like Australia and Qatar, while further vast sums have been spent on plants that turn LNG back into gas in consuming countries, all in the belief the world's need for the fuel would rise rapidly — especially as countries, particularly in Asia, sought to move away from more polluting -LSB-...]

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).

The liberal group People for the American Way's report on how conservative foundations have deployed vast sums to support think tanks, friendly media and other institutions that promote right - wing causes is titled «Buying a Movement.»

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.

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.

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.

In Wengers first 8 trophy winning years we never spent more than 13mil on a player, so to suggest we've needed vast sums of money to compete is just ignoring everything we are as a football club.

Arsene Wenger needs a striker and whilst he supposedly has a big transfer warchest the idea of spending vast sums of cash on a single player is still alien to the Gunners boss.

It is Barnes» contention that he spent vast sums of money on Spinks.

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?

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.

despite the vast sums of money filling the coffers season after season wenger, s always trying to do things on the cheap.

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.

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

Spurs» hierarchy are currently concentrating on the development of their new stadium due to open next summer, but this is unlikely to have an impact on their transfer spending with the vast sums being generated through the Premier League TV revenue.

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.»

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.

But the vast sums of cash REBNY and its associates invest on the political scene — which according to good - government group Common Cause New York has totaled more than $ 44 million in state and local races since 2005 — should help Spinola's successor quickly find his footing with Cuomo.

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.

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.

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

They say the issue has been ignored for too long, and accuse Labour of «wasting vast sums» on bureaucracy in its Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme of secondary school rebuilds.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is obsessed with K - 12 voucher expansion, especially in Florida where she has spent vast sums to break the separation of church and state, elect sympathetic politicians, fund a PAC with John Kirtley of Step Up for Students and served until recently on the board of Jeb's Foundation for Excellence in Education.

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.

Considering the vast sums that have been spent on developing these devices, it's always seemed odd to me that they would trumpet their e-reading devices and commitment to book readers, then ship a product that aims to fulfill these promises... but only in one of these fonts:

Ramona Reed tends to give away vast sums to strangers in need, but she has also had periods when she spent recklessly on herself.

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.

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?).

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.

Undoubtedly the most lucrative titles in professional gaming, competitions based around the trio often involve players competing for vast multimillion - dollar sums which put them on a completely different level to many other games.

Knitters swap rare patterns, go to conferences and crafting festivals, and spend vast sums of cash on hoards of yarn they can never possibly use in one lifetime, and form communities of likeminded, hardcore knitters where they talk in indecipherable slang and occasionally slag on the newbies trying to put together their first pair of socks.

In the PC space, a vast array of options are available for players to define the experience to their own expectations, but this is as much about investing significant sums on hardware as it is about careful settings management and even then, the results can disappoint.

As the sum of its parts, «The Tempest» is a veiled yet humorous political commentary on, as Kozloff explains in the catalogue, «the way men (the cartographers and generals) explain the world to us, a world that is so much more vast, disparate, wacky, and unknowable than their pontifications.»

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.