Sentence examples for extravagant payments from inspiring English sources
The auditor found faked invoices, double-billing, and extravagant payments without tenders or contracts.
Honiara's special constables regularly extort money from the government, including extravagant allowances and overtime payments.
Some institutional investors, including BlackRock and Legal and General, have been said to oppose the retention payments as too extravagant.
The pension agency's coverage has limits, but the drivers' benefits are not extravagant -- the top annual payment is around $20,000 -- so all would get their benefits if the federal agency took over the plan.
By that, he meant the money went in at one end and then came straight out of the other end, mainly in the form of ever more extravagant salaries for players and huge payments to their agents.
Some institutional investors, including BlackRock and Legal and General, have opposed the payments because they are viewed as extravagant.
The money, passed through accounts in Hong Kong, Switzerland and the US, allegedly resulted in personal rewards for Le Floch-Prigent and his former wife, including expensive holidays, extravagant allowances, a London flat and a £1.8m cash payment.
In Conway, this reporter asked O'Rourke about his 2012 run for Congress, when he talked about the "extravagant" size of government and the need to means-test entitlements — i.e., to shrink Social Security payments to many recipients.
"He would lure these investors to make significant up-front payments -- sometimes in the millions of dollars -- and then use that money to support an extravagant lifestyle," Mr. Spitzer said.
