Sentence examples for breathtaking sums from inspiring English sources

The regime of Hugo Chávez and its successor borrowed breathtaking sums even while raking in record revenue from oil exports.

And the tired old argument that banks must pay such breathtaking sums to attract the best talent in a worldwide market place is still regularly trotted out.

Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, breathtaking sums of money have poured in for the families of about 400 police officers, firefighters and other uniformed personnel who died trying to lead thousands to safety.

Aftab Jafferjee QC said there were "simply breathtaking" sums of money involved in foreign betting markets, with an estimated $40bn to $50bn spent in the Indian sub-continent in one year alone.

Those divisions are starting to emerge as breathtaking sums of money have poured in for the families of about 400 police officers, firefighters and other uniformed personnel who died trying to lead thousands of civilians to safety.

He added that there were "simply breathtaking" sums of money involved in foreign betting markets.

In the aid world, that's a breathtaking sum.

And $3,000 a month — an amount that was inching ever higher — seemed a breathtaking sum.

Some of that breathtaking sum is a sunk cost from the early days of the industry, but not all: governments still shell out about half their energy R&D budgets on this mature industry.

His retirement package was in the neighborhood of $400 million — a breathtaking sum, even for those of us who admire the job that Big Oil does and think that the industry gets a bum rap.

He called for an increase in federal budget deficits from roughly zero today to the "breathtaking sum" of $400 billion to $600 billion a year, or 4 to 6percentt of gross domestic product.