Sentences with phrase «wad of money»

Sony was losing wads of money on something that wasn't core to anything they were doing, and they weren't doing a good job with it anyway.

Suppliers do not care why you bought it — they only know that you just put a big wad of money in their pockets.

People were leaving his ministry and not giving him big wads of money any more.

The state is not a nanny whose job is to fix things with wads of money and ironclad decrees.

So if you were to accept this, the government spends wads of money addressing, indirectly, this question of nature and nurture through incarcerating people.

hone your closing skills before you blow wads of money on direct mail that you put on your CC...:)

It was often a fat wad of money — I could make about $ 100 a night, not bad money for a teenager — and I felt like I'd earned it.

«They have created a lot of tension between founders and their earlier investors, when they say, «take our giant wad of money or we will give it to your competition,»» said one VC.

In short, huge wads of money will not sway the decision.

Over long distance you probably need to set aside / make allowance for a fair wad of money per year to pay someone the minimum call out fee to go and change a light bulb each time one goes etc. etc. as some tenants really can't (or won't) manage basic stuff like that without burning the place down.

Though carrying around wads of money goes against the grain, it's far better than having to face closed banks and limited cash machines, should that occur.

You can't tell but I'm throwing large wads of money with questionable origin at the monitor right now.

Some start as an indie author, and then thanks to their great sales a publisher comes to them with an offer they can't refuse (here's a big wad of money and these are all the great things we'll do for you, among which include print distribution to bookstores!).

So if you don't have wads of money to throw at a problem, you're going to have to be really creative to solve it.

German newspaper Bild initially reported that the wad of money was discovered at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith office, according to the Associated Press.

Anthony Weiner handed over a wad of money to disgraced Rep. Charles Rangel for his legal - defense fund.

I just blew a wad of money on more of the same!

The two also have in common an usually - strong handshake and a stage finale in which they invariably find a wad of money hidden on a member of the audience.

And their wads of money.

As I am contemplating what to say here, I'm thinking about the benefits of spending a wad of money to attend a writers conference.

Yes, this is a bitter pill to swallow, but better that than lose a wad of money.

WITH AN IMMEDIATE FIXED ANNUITY, you hand over a wad of money to an insurance company and, in return, the insurer sends you a check every month for a specified period.

Sure it's great to hold a physical box, but that disc snapping could set you back another wad of money, whereas digitally you won't need to put up any extra storage shelves or worry about breakages.

Personally, the lawsuit I keep waiting to see is when a player «guarantees» his team will win and then doesn't, and a fan sues the player because he lost a wad of money betting on the player's team.

It can never be a case where on an appointed day somewhere in the future you will gather up your personal possessions, put your hat on your head and with a wad of money in your jeans, walk out the door.

As Macarena's English and understanding of police protocol and the Australian insurance system was a little patchy, she called two Ballina cops to the scene of the accident for what they thought would be a few minutes of traffic redirection but turned out to be an hour of «No, they don't have to hand over a wad of money on the spot» repeat assurances.