Sentence examples for lavish financing from inspiring English sources

While the Russian Olympic team brought home a paltry three gold medals from Vancouver — along with plenty of excuses — the Paralympians dominated, taking first place with 38 medals, including 12 golds, all without the lavish financing the government provides the main squad.

In the two decades since it was frozen out of the world's elite space club, China has relied on its own aerospace engineers, aided by lavish government financing, to chase its space exploration dreams.

And it revealed, prosecutors say, that the seemingly measured senator was using the bribes to bankroll a lavish lifestyle, financing a four-door Bentley Arnage and a $2 million waterfront home originally built for a boss of the Luchese crime family.

The country, which has the largest conventional oil reserves outside the Middle East, is still enjoying a revenue windfall from historically high oil prices, resulting in a surge in consumer spending and lavish government financing for an array of social welfare and infrastructure programs.

That they existed at all now seems a minor miracle: these companies were multiracial and often politically provocative at a time of extensive repression of any form of protest; lavish state financing for dance went almost exclusively to four national ballet companies; and South Africa was effectively cut off from the influences of the international artistic community through sanctions.

Relations worsened as the McCourts divorce highlighted the couple's lavish spending financed in part by the club.

Celebrity coaches earn many times more than college presidents, and even teams at financially strained public universities train in lavish facilities financed by donors and corporate sponsors.

Four years later he proclaimed himself emperor of the Central African Empire and was crowned the following year as Emperor Bokassa I with lavish ceremonies financed largely by France.

A year ago Picard sued several members of the family, including the brothers, accusing them of failing to detect the fraud while living lavish lifestyles financed with the family's ill-gotten fortune.

The flow of talented people out of careers spent in front of spreadsheets may help revitalize other parts of the economy that couldn't compete with the lavish life finance once offered.

Royals publicized the discoveries by financing lavish scientific encyclopedias.