Sentence examples for a serious sum of from inspiring English sources

It's not as high as some people had predicted but it is a serious sum of money and we accept that we deserve to be punished".

Ronson and one of Omar's aides are on the way to deposit money Omar has collected (a serious sum, more than $7,000) on behalf of Hamas, the organization that sponsors suicide bombers who blow up Israelis.

That is a reminder of a grim truth: for now the only party investing serious sums of money in Japanese banks is the Japanese taxpayer.* "The Japanese Banking Crisis: Where Did it Come From and How Will it End?", by Takeo Hoshi, University of California, San Diego and Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago, forthcoming in the NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1999.

Those who cannot raise serious sums of cash will soon be forced to drop out.For some, at least, this will not matter.

These range from the mild (having your failure publicised on its website) to the severe (forfeiting serious sums of money to charity, not to stickK).

The man likes money, and there's serious sums of it to be made in gaming – and if you've got a famous face to plaster across your promotional package, there's even more reason to believe in its lucrative potential.

The man likes money, and there's serious sums of it to be made in gaming and if you've got a famous face to plaster across your promotional package, there's even more reason to believe in its lucrative potential.

Time is more valuable than anything else, and although you may have plenty of enthusiasm for an idea, you need to do some serious sums before you dive in.

But what of people with more serious sums?

To secure serious sums, the chancellor would have to raise employer NICs: an increase of one percentage point would raise almost £4 billion.

It either tries to revamp the site (tried, failed), sells for a tiny sum, as AOL did with Bebo – or closes the site completely with a serious loss of face.