He needed that sort of cash, too, what with a full-time staff of over 200 and a costly divorce eating into his fortune.
But the costly positions ate into profits and robbed the firm of opportunities in oil and other markets.
This Society bound its members to refrain from wearing ornaments jewelry, and costly clothing, from eating cake and other sweetmeats, and from drinking tea and coffee.
And the Labour government was strangling companies with more and more costly regulations, which were eating into their profits.Yet Mr Brown could quite legitimately retort that Britain's economy has done well with him in charge.
Judges then warned that further costly litigation would eat into the value of the estate.
But unlike costly texts, which eat into cell phone owners' data plans, WhatsApps messages are sent over the Internet if connected to WiFi or a cellular network.
But there are encouraging signs that our runaway appetite for new stuff is beginning to wane, in the UK at least, that people are eating less environmentally costly meat, and that Americans are copying their European counterparts in adopting more fuel-efficient cars.
Stop asking them for costly games, save electricity, save on eating junk, etc.
With dinner checks averaging $100 or so a couple, without wine, it is the town's costliest place to eat.
More than just excessive desire for food, gluttony involves eating irregularly (snacking), being preoccupied with eating, consuming costly (sumptuous or unhealthy) foodstuffs and being fastidious about food.
