Sentence examples for huge awards from inspiring English sources
Such damages are hard to quantify, and often produce huge awards by sympathetic juries.
They then spent the next five years pocketing huge awards before the firm collapsed in 2005, owing £1.3bn to creditors and putting thousands of people out of work.
The share price has since risen sharply, after the company told investors that it would not have to pay huge awards from the lawsuits.
Since the trial lawyers make a lot of money sharing those huge awards, they have been pushing for an approach that pays lip service to the doctors' complaints without threatening their own incomes.
Jury punitive damage awards, which are intended as punishment, have been a focus of particular criticism because of occasional huge awards that critics say have no relation to compensatory damages, which are intended to pay injured people for their losses.
This Joel will win huge awards and write countless books and a nationally syndicated column, but at the time of this letter he has just been finding out that to cross the electric fence from the actual world to the writing world requires at least as much invention as the writing itself.
On Wall Street, the huge award will likely hang over the value of the companies' stock.
The possibility of a huge award has resulted in a wave of lobbying by cigarette makers and others as well as legislation in several states.
Florida lawmakers said in interviews yesterday that they were concerned that a huge award in the Miami lawsuit might stop the flow of settlement payments to the state.
"We know that people are not going to be persistent, so we give them ten sentences a month, or one article a month, and then, when they master this, we give them a huge award, a big ceremony.
State lawmakers in Florida and elsewhere have raised concerns that a huge award could affect the ability of tobacco companies to pay $246 billion over the next two decades to settle lawsuits brought by state attorneys general to recover costs spent treating smoking-related ills.
