Sentence examples for as a payoff from inspiring English sources

Such ties make it all too easy to criticize the contract as a payoff to politically favored businessmen.

£1m: Amount given to Sam Allardyce as a payoff for lasting 67 days of his £6m contract.

But prosecutors say Mr. Belnick received the bonus as a payoff for helping to hide Mr. Kozlowski's thefts.

The former deputy director general of the BBC was given almost £1m as a payoff when he left (half was 12 months' salary, half in lieu of notice).

Mr. Heberlig said prosecutors had not proved that Mr. Belnick received the bonus as a payoff for covering up illegal financial moves by Mr. Kozlowski.

As a payoff for those difficult choices, we're finally able to make some investments, and one of those is the $125 million for DYFS".

The White House will try to present this as simply a payoff to the rich.

Xerox's rivals are just as drawn to such a payoff.

Mr. Jenkins cited them and very little else as evidence of a "payoff".

Such research, they say, benefits the economy as a whole — a payoff beyond the spending that individual companies could justify.

BRUCE WEBER ++ 'LAUGH WHORE' For indisputable evidence that comedy is fueled by anger, take a gander at Mario Cantone's face as he approaches a payoff line in "Laugh Whore," his gussied-up stand-up comedy show.