Sentence examples for amount for themselves from inspiring English sources

They dropped to fifth, and the Americans moved up to third, gaining that amount for themselves and their supporters.

The Workmans struggled with labor problems continually, needing local porters to carry gear for them because they could not carry a sufficient amount for themselves for a multi-month expedition.

WALL STREET JOURNAL   Research Highlights Private Equity Fees  |  American private equity firms distributed $194.2 billion to investors from 1980 to 2004, as executives kept almost that same amount, $189.9 billion, for themselves, according to research from the London Business School and the University of Oxford, The Financial Times reports.

Check their MySpace page — you'll see that they have created a substantial amount of noise for themselves.

"Typically, people are expected to take a certain amount of responsibility for themselves," he said, "especially if they are there after lifeguard hours".

It was a business undertaking in which the Bain Capital people created a tremendous amount of wealth for themselves and their investors".

These reforms need to cut through the ideologies about the relation between risk and reward propounded by financiers and executives who have been able to extract huge amounts of value for themselves.

Imagine if all along they've been offering to look after our savings and pensions and we've been giving them the money and instead of them keeping it safe they've been lending it out at huge risk and making obscenely vast amounts of money for themselves".

They may be making large amounts of money for themselves — but their advice is not doing the same for the public.

That sum may be less than 0.01percentt of all refunds handed out, but it's a significant amount for many of the recipients themselves, as the average refund check runs around $1,547.

The Proposer was given a slip of paper with two rows indicating amounts displayed in fifty-cent increments from $0 to $5, and asked to circle the amount they wished to keep for themselves and the corresponding amount they wished to offer to their partner.