Obviously, for a subsistence farmer in an irrigated area who lacks farm management skills and spends a hefty sum on seeds and pesticides, the depleting water tables and irrigation needs are an added burden (Gutierrez et al., 2015).
Alfredo, incensed at Violetta's inexplicable dismissal of him, gambles recklessly at cards and wins a hefty sum from his rival Baron Douphol.
Now, they're buying this company and for a hefty sum.
With so many people watching and such a hefty sum attached to securing a time slot, it's understandable why advertisers treat this event as their, well, Super Bowl.
With 100 billion aluminum cans produced annually, that amounts to an additional $2.2 billion a year -- a hefty sum, and one that may rise with additional costs, such as premarket testing.
While in the ideal world you would have a dozen or so clients who hire you and pay you a hefty sum each month (and never actually call you except for a few hours here and there), don't get your hopes up.
I imagine MIT is already in negotiation with Coca Cola, and will get a hefty sum before we get to watch it on a TV ad.
The deal could provide Bolivia with $1 billion in exports, with perhaps as much as $600 million of that coming to the government in taxes and royalties -- a hefty sum in an economy of only $8 billion.
Since 1998 pairs of pandas have been leaving China on more ethically satisfying long-term loans, where the foreign zoo must commit to the highest standards of care, do all it can to breed from the animals, implement a programme of research, and fork out a hefty sum ($500,000 per pair per year) towards the conservation of wild pandas.
