Sentences with phrase «very different amounts of money»

However, as the government agrees, there can be good practical reasons why two neighbouring schools might spend very different amounts of money, even if their pupil intake, staffing levels, and class sizes are similar.

Not exact matches

He responded: «Well, I just had one come in, a younger person, had gone to Harvard, super bright, has started a financial company in one area and he's very successful, and people were offering him massive amounts of money to go into different types of businesses because he was successful at one.»

And the best part is that all the people using the feature are very close to you, so you won't have to spend large amounts of money to travel to a different location just to meet.

Currently, the amount of money a school receives is not based on the needs of its students, and the amount taxpayers must pay to support education is very different in each town.

As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).

Not everyone has the same amount of loose money, placing the poorer in a very different position when betting.

Even in those cases where lawyers and architects make similar amounts of money, they're very different lines of work and appeal to different types of people.