Sentence examples for a modest payout from inspiring English sources

He was made redundant in 2007 and received a modest payout of £50,000 over half of which went to pay off debts caused by the costs of divorcing my mother who left when I was 10.

An adversary of musical theft Jarre may be, but he had his fingers burned when he unwittingly sampled the ney flute of Turkish musician Kudsi Erguner, which he had acquired from ethnomusicologist Xavier Bellenger; Erguner won a modest payout, and Jarre created a new opening section and renamed the track Revolution, Revolutions, when the album was remastered in 1991.

The reason for what lawyers described as a fairly modest payout to the Bell estate was largely that compensation in wrongful-death cases is limited to the loss of financial support and future companionship suffered by a child or a spouse.

The lack of a short-run response in labour supply is not too surprising given the relatively modest payout levels,28 and the fact that those who receive the highest payouts are also the least able to reduce labour supply (i.e. those who stay in the smallest flats, who are likely to be poorer).

I am attracted to ROIC's earnings profile and modest payout ratio.

Or, "Have you brought me some tea money?" Unlike more serious bribes, these very modest payouts, formally known as "facilitating payments," are not against the laws of the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand or South Korea, when made abroad.

Sure, some, like Cisco, have talked about starting a payout of a modest size.

The fund also uses a modest amount of leverage to boost the payout.

With a modest minimum buy-in of $100, and a maximum payout of $250,000, the exchange said it was appealing more to mom-and-pop investors than Wall Street titans.

Assets of these funds totaled a modest $900 million or so in August, with Vanguard's three entries — Managed Payout Distribution Focus, Managed Payout Growth and Distribution and Managed Payout Growth Focus — accounting for nearly 60 percent of them.

The stock yields a modest 1.5%, but the dividend is protected by healthy earnings (the payout is only 30%) as well as a sturdy balance sheet.