Sentence examples for for payoffs from inspiring English sources

Stacey Stowe (NYT) NEW JERSEY NEWARK: DEVELOPER SENTENCED FOR PAYOFFS A developer of housing on the Hoboken and Jersey City waterfronts who pleaded guilty to paying nearly $115,000 in payoffs to Robert C. Janiszewski, the former Hudson County executive, was sentenced yesterday to two years and a month in prison.

Many reporters printed the party line in exchange for payoffs.

(The final bill for payoffs was about $23,000).

They are accused of protecting cocaine and marijuana traffickers from arrest in return for payoffs.

But they have often served as engines of extortion, shaking down contractors for payoffs and no-show jobs.

Both union and city officials have been sent to jail for shaking down bus companies or offering favors in exchange for payoffs.

With Saudi Arabia and Egypt failing to pull their traditional leadership weight and many other Arab states in a state of collapse or disarray and threatened or ruled by militant Islamists, some Israelis wonder if even some sort of Israel-Arab alliance against Iran and its proxies — one of the hoped-for payoffs of peace — would really represent an appreciable advantage.

The hoped-for payoff, a cabinet post, did not materialize in the first Clinton administration.

The hoped-for payoff is the chance to discuss problems in their businesses that I.B.M. might solve for them.

It frustrates our pattern-recognizing abilities, our need for emotional engagement, our desire for payoff.

(5) The equal weightings of quality assessment metrics for payoff functions in Equations 8 and 9.  .