A billion dollars is a lot of money, but it's defraying the cost of R&D at Nokia, who then will pay Microsoft a license fee for every copy of Windows Phone 7 they ship.
The creation of the requisite infrastructure for an electricity network often assumes that spaces between the networks are empty, a void to be filled by persuading communities of the social necessity of the infrastructure, and that its social cost can be defrayed through compensation and community gain.
"They've been like family to us," said Susan, whose many expenses for her mother's care, including medicine and transportation, are defrayed by Sharp.
Some costs will be defrayed through profits on its 57% stake in the park.
Admission to the program is by application only and the costs of running it (from a conference room in the new New York Times building) are defrayed by service providers.
Fourth, it is frequently claimed that a majority of construction spending on the Games is being defrayed by the private sector.
They did agree that some of the cost should be defrayed by drug companies.
The cost of the procession, about $1.25 per person per day, the organizers said, was defrayed by foreign aid agencies.
In these cases, having pet insurance may make those decisions a little easier since some of the costs will be defrayed.
Their proposal calls for the Chargers to contribute $353m, which could be defrayed by the additional $100m from the NFL and a naming rights deal.
