Sentence examples for given a payoff from inspiring English sources

Questioned at the time about the news that one particularly notorious pedophile cleric had been given a "payoff" to leave the priesthood, Cardinal Dolan, then the archbishop, responded that such an inference was "false, preposterous and unjust".

The HR director, asked to leave the business after only 12 months' service, was given a £2.5m payoff.

Given a certain payoff for selling and an uncertain future going it alone, it is not surprising that many people take the money.

Mr Allen has also been criticised for holding the positions of both chairman and chief executive following the departure of Steve Morrison, who was given a £831,370 payoff.

The former chief executive of a troubled mental health trust has been given a £190,000 payoff after she left her latest role.

She later described her meeting with Smith, who was given a £38,000 payoff to leave the royal staff, as the lowest point of her career.

On Saturday, Mr. Halper also released a written statement asserting that he had given a cash payoff to a public official in exchange for help for his political problems.

He had been given a "massive" payoff by the Mirror, and had just signed a "massive" deal for his memoir The Insider ("which was number one for about 10 weeks").

KPMG's focus on deals done prior to 2010 means that high-profile cases such as Fincham, who was given a £500,000 payoff following his resignation in the wake of the "Crowngate" affair, are likely to be put under the microscope.

This morning, as it emerged that he had also been given a €250,000 payoff (to enforce his resignation) he hit back with a statement that not only cited "personal and family reasons" for his resignation but rejected accusations that he had failed to take adequate steps ahead of the island's spectacular banking collapse last spring.

But if he was given a statutory redundancy payoff, he would probably receive just a quarter.