Sentence examples for hefty royalties from inspiring English sources

They fear that offshore oil drilling will drive away the whales, and would rather draw hefty royalties from opening up the coastal plain.

Acknowledging the "Presumed Innocent" reader's sense of déjà vu is crafty, but what makes this new book more than a cleverly executed stunt is Turow's determination to use the familiarity of the story and the characters for purposes loftier than earning some very hefty royalties.

Now HTC will have to pay hefty royalties to both Microsoft and Apple for every Android device it sells.

Harvey might have had to pay a hefty royalty to Vesalius's heirs.

The service is popular, with some 90 million users, but it has been bogged down by hefty royalty fees.

Five million farmers are suing Monsanto for $7.7 billion because the company has been reportedly taxing the farmers into financial ruin with hefty royalty charges.

The star of the Andy Hardy films was Hollywood's highest paid actor in the late 1930s and early 1940s, but according to Augustine was not entitled to hefty royalty payments due to the nature of the old studio system.

China's effort to develop its own technical standards for the next generation of DVD's appears to be an effort to avoid hefty royalty payments to patent-holding corporations in Japan, the United States and Europe.

The star of the Andy Hardy films and Hollywood's highest paid actor in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Rooney was a product of the industry's old studio system and was not entitled to hefty royalty payments, Augustine said.

Has Sony, once again, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by believing it can continue to charge a premium for its proprietary technology?Certainly, the hefty royalty fees, proprietary authoring software and laughable anti-piracy system add disproportionately to Blu-ray's cost and inconvenience.

Terrestrial stations must pay a hefty royalty for performances that are streamed over the Internet.