Sentence examples for kept for itself from inspiring English sources

The porteño dissidence was a serious financial handicap to the state, since Buenos Aires kept for itself all the revenues from customs duties on imports.

Last spring, for example, the Education Department's inspector general concluded that a contractor had improperly kept for itself $6.6 million in student loan interest payments it had collected.

IBM Research Adds To Bottom Line 05.23.00 IBM's computer-chip research operations have turned out several major advances in semiconductor technology, some of which have been embraced by the industry at large and others that it has kept for itself.

Typically, when VigLink is involved in handling the rollout of affiliate links, it takes a cut of the commissions the publisher would earn, with 75% of the commission going to the publisher, and the rest kept for itself.

It passes on at least 70 per cent of the purchase price of the cards, minus the VAT on the part it keeps for itself.

In turn, BB&T will receive a 95 percent preferred interest in a new entity stocked with $500 million in risky loans that BankAtlantic originally planned to keep for itself.

In a countersuit, Mr. Gundlach contends that TCW fired him to keep for itself hundreds of millions of dollars in management and performance fees.

Many guests are leaving the hotel, often to stand in line at a nearby Starbucks or Crumbs — business that Hyatt would prefer to keep for itself.

Mr. Gundlach has countersued, alleging that TCW fired him in order to keep for itself hundreds of millions of dollars in fees he was owed.

As in "Arcadia" (1993), Stoppard makes rich chamber music out of the lure of the past and the secrets that history keeps for itself.

It may discover that its real strength isn't in just what it keeps for itself but in what it's able to give up.