Sentence examples for handsome contribution to 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For their trouble, and handsome contributions, the bail bondsmen may now be handsomely rewarded.

"Its handsome facade and distinctive rooftop cupola made an important contribution to the townscape," he said.

François Ozon's Time to Leave is a cinematic contribution to this challenge and centres on a handsome gay French photographer, 31-year-old Melvil Poupaud Poupaud) who thinks he has Aids.

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.

Their contribution to GDP?