Sentence examples for hefty payoff from inspiring English sources

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The auction secured the former, but even its hefty payoff couldn't buy his liberty.

With his hefty payoff, Ailes scurried to the Trump campaign, where, for a while, he acted as a shadow adviser.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 — Hewlett-Packard said Monday that it had agreed to pay $1.6 billion for Opsware, which makes software to update corporate servers automatically, a deal that promises a hefty payoff to an Opsware founder, Marc Andreessen.

With billions of dollars at stake and neither company certain how it might fare in court, a brand-name manufacturer might prefer to pay its potential competitor substantial compensation to delay its generic drug and the generic maker might welcome a hefty payoff rather than face the uncertainties of litigation and marketing.

Nevertheless, the managers of Tahl-Propp, which is based in New York, say they ultimately expect a hefty payoff from their investment in the 19-story, 500,000-square-foot property, both because of the way the deal was structured and because of developments in the city itself.

Thus, as the price for approving the recent New START Treaty, they demanded -- and received -- a hefty payoff: a commitment from the Obama administration for $180 billion in funding over the next decade for "modernization" of the U.S. nuclear weapons production complex and the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

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"For those who are the target of the scorn it's extremely difficult, because for a long time they were the champions and they worked hard, and they also look at the situation saying, 'My intentions were good".' Some executives have already decided to forgo their bonuses, but companies continue to hand out hefty payoffs for executives of failed companies, igniting public outcries.

New joint ventures with Sony in Asian markets could eventually provide Ericcson with a big payoff, but are requiring hefty initial investments.

But the payoff was equally grand: Heston's Oscar-winning performance and a hefty box-office gross validated the costs of operating on a vast canvas.

The program was hefty.

Hefty fines seem inevitable.

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