Sentence examples for accepted a payoff from inspiring English sources
While more than half the workers, exhausted, eventually accepted a payoff, those who held out to the end were rewarded: first, the greater Marseille authority, keen to preserve jobs, agreed to buy the factory site from Unilever for €5m and pay a symbolic extra euro for the machinery.
Patten said he wished Entwistle had accepted a £225,000 payoff instead because his reputation would not have suffered.
Coincidentally or not, the pieces soon fell into place, as the National Association of Automobile Dealers accepted a $7.5 million payoff from the N.F.L. to alter its own convention plans.
At the arraignment yesterday of a Brooklyn judge charged with accepting a bribe, prosecutors filed a secret tape recording that caught the judge laughing as he prodded a lawyer for what both men seemed to understand was an overdue payoff.
With billions of dollars at stake, a brand-name manufacturer might prefer to pay its generic competitor substantial money to drop its challenge and delay marketing its drug, and the generic maker might prefer to accept a big payoff rather than face the uncertainties of litigation and actually trying to sell its drug.
Ireland's assistant manager was circumspect throughout a press conference held ostensibly to preview the England friendly – including on the controversy of the FAI accepting a €5m payoff from Fifa – but was notably downbeat on the prospect of welcoming Grealish into the fold.
Mark Byford, a former BBC deputy director, speaking for the first time since the payoffs row erupted, said on Tuesday that he accepted his payoff was "a lot of money" and that the focus on executive redundancy payments had led to criticism of the BBC.
For example, risk aversion, or the reluctance of a person to accept a situation with an uncertain payoff rather than one with a more certain but potentially lower payoff, may be a barrier to accepting beneficial technology.
But ethical behavior can have a payoff.
Even the most destructive behaviors have a payoff.
