Sentence examples for enormous grant from inspiring English sources

An enormous grant of power, it gave Roosevelt virtually a free hand to pursue his policy of material aid to the "opponents of force".

Mr. Jha also knew he had only a year to deliver new handsets that could go head to head with Apple's iPhone if he had any hope of retaining the trust of Motorola's employees, investors and customers — not to mention its board, which had lured him with an enormous grant of stock and options.

"It often doesn't take an enormous grant in order to move a field forward," Parker said.

"We're in active discussion on TPA," said McConnell, adding, "It's an enormous grant of power, obviously, from a Republican Congress to a Democratic president, but that's how much we believe in trade as an important part of America's economy".

"Proponents of the Pacific trade deal face irreconcilable problems that on one hand, they bemoan Obama's executive regulatory overreach in areas like amnesty, Obamacare, and Net Neutrality, yet, they claim that Congress should cede to the same president an enormous grant of power that eviscerates the advice and consent treaty ratification process.

Finally, one intern spoke out: "How could you hire all of us without having the money?" And the gruesome reality of working in a non-profit hit: an enormous grant that the organization had been counting on had still not come through, and the interns were one of the many cuts that the company had to make.

When executives receive enormous grants of stock or options, they like to say that they are acting in the interests of their investors.

Worse still, "Reagan rarely followed up by asking his subordinates what they did with the enormous grants of authority he ceded to them".

Executives receive enormous grants of stock or options, saying they are simply aligning their own interests with those of their shareholders.

Still, it is Mr. Cheney's retirement package that shines the spotlight on practices in executive compensation that critics describe as over the top, from enormous grants of stock options to pay that has nothing to do with performance.

With executives receiving enormous grants every year -- so that moderate changes in stock prices can mean multimillion-dollar gains -- they have too much incentive to push accounting rules, or break them outright, critics say.