Sentence examples for derisory sum from inspiring English sources

Shareholders in Argentaria are being offered a derisory sum for control of their bank.

Mills made it plain she thought this was a derisory sum.

He knocked out about 18 scripts in two years for an average (and derisory) sum of $1,270 each.

This was a derisory sum to the Sherpas, whose funeral rites could cost 10 times that figure, and a demonstration last Monday followed the religious ceremonies.

Now a crooked mayor Vadim (Madyanov) wants this land to build his own gruesome luxury dacha, and slaps the Russian equivalent of a compulsory purchase order on Kolia: he gets this precious land for a derisory sum.

After England's Emile Heskey was subjected to serious racist abuse by a crowd in Zagreb in the autumn of 2008 and the Croatian Football Association were fined a derisory sum, Ferdinand retorted: "What good is that going to do?

Second, because mining companies do not have to pay royalties on public land, and pay only derisory sums for the land itself, they have every incentive to operate marginal or degraded mines.

Boris Johnson, the London mayor, used his Telegraph column to criticise the "quite derisory sums [paid] in tax to the UK Exchequer" by US tech companies, but blamed the system rather than the firms.

Black songwriters had an even harder time, forced to sell their work and copyrights for derisory sums.

About £40,000 was raised, though the bonds quickly traded at a considerable discount and were soon being exchanged for derisory sums.

This derisory amount is simply not enough.