Sentence examples for a sizeable sum to from inspiring English sources

The Rhodes Must Fall movement said the statue of the man who was an ardent imperialist and left a sizeable sum to the college in his will, was representative of Britain's "imperial blind spot" and should be taken down.

While it's a sizeable sum to most people, in this room – filled with more than 1,000 bankers sporting black ties and quaffing champagne – £20,000 seemed paltry, particularly when it was coming out of the pocket of the great survivor of the financial crisis.

"Projects of this size and complexity have an impact on local areas, it is only fair that they should see a sizeable sum to compensate them," said John Osman, leader of the county council.

This will absolutely, definitely, certainly be the last time they ever play music together – unless, a few years down the line, an enterprising promoter notices there's a Wild Beasts-shaped hole in the market, and offers them an attractively sizeable sum to reunite – and their departure has been marked by a decorum befitting a group who always seemed to do things the right way.

In all the package will cost an extra $300 billion or so next year; a sizeable sum at a time when the deficit is forecast to exceed a trillion dollars.The deal certainly cheered America's economic soothsayers.

Although the 20-times champions paid £59.7m for Di María, a £6m loan fee for Falcao, £27m for Luke Shaw, £28m for Ander Herrera, £16m for Marcos Rojo and £14m for Daley Blind, there remains a sizeable sum at Louis van Gaal's disposal and the 63-year-old is free to invest this as he wishes.

That was a sizeable sum at the time (the average UK house-price was around £3,000), but not life-transforming in the way the top American pay-out would be.

However, the occasion may be used as an excuse to slip a sizeable sum of money contrary to the trifle dictated by the traditional approach to a public official to extract favorable treatment.

It is understood that the latter's contract stipulates that he would have to pay Newcastle a sizeable sum in compensation were he to resign for certain reasons but few club insiders believe things will really come to that.

And luckily for us, we were in the capable hands of Jonny Bealby, writer and originator of Wild Frontiers, one of the brightest new kids in the adventure travel playpen, and whose company pledges a sizeable sum from each trip to the victims of the disaster.

Sporting debenture holders pay a set sum of money, usually quite a sizeable amount, to be guaranteed the right to buy tickets to a top level sporting club or championship.