Sentence examples for handsome contribution from inspiring English sources

Corporations are also making a strikingly handsome contribution to the state's coffers, paying $80 billion (or fully 42%) more than the year before.

That maximum price would certainly cover the true incremental cost of serving uninsured middle-class people, with handsome contribution margins to overhead and, most probably, to profits as well.

And corporate profits, which usually make a handsome contribution to the incomes of the rich, are declining steeply.Much of this is what you would expect in a recession, and the poor will be suffering along with the rich.

Indeed, in the fourth quarter of last year net trade made a handsome contribution to the gain in America's GDP, implying that foreigners pulled America along, rather than the other way around.

Now investors have to decide whom to believe: Mr Estrada (whose election campaign chest received a handsome contribution from Mr Tan) or Mr Yasay, whose own reputation is not as perfect as his name.

Gas accounts for 10% of Russia's GDP and makes a handsome contribution to the state's coffers, so Mr Putin is right to be worried.Oil-indexed gas prices are being squeezed by a combination of factors, chiefly the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the deregulation of European electricity prices, the liberalisation of British energy markets and the arrival of shale gas.

Magistrates and city senators generally had to pay handsomely for their election and thereafter make further handsome contributions, as need arose and so far as they could afford, toward the adornment of their community.

Two works by Monteverdi, "Cantate Domino" and "Beatus Vir," had an appealing bounce; "Beatus Vir" included handsome contributions from a consort of period violins and continuo.

As Frances Snyder, a tribal spokesman, puts it: "The American dream is OK, but they don't like us having it"—despite handsome contributions to the local community from the profits of the tribe's casino.

The one experienced man who has been noticeably consistent with the bat is India's mercurial cricketer and captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who made handsome contributions against New Zealand batting down the order, scoring 73, 62 and 48 not out.

The third partner, Louis Rios, owned a building maintenance firm, and he had made some handsome political contributions over the years.