Sentence examples for lavish payments from inspiring English sources

Rumors about lavish payments have been circulating.

But Social Security is not to blame for the deficit and health care spending, mainly for Medicare, is driven more by lavish payments to drug companies and other providers than by payments to beneficiaries.

The founder of a public charter school in the East Bay that provides a comfort zone for Muslim students is under attack in the wake of a state audit that uncovered questionable financial practices, including lavish payments to her.

In interviews here, some experts said that M.C.C.'s Aynak bid was so munificent that the company might be forced to renegotiate lavish payments of copper royalties to the Afghan government.

Former Attorney General Marc Dann ran a vulgar and unprofessional office and misused campaign money to make lavish payments to friends and family, the state's government watchdog said in releasing results of a six-month investigation.

But lavish termination payments ought to be anathema to anyone who aspires to a just society.

Luke Hildyard, the governance and stewardship lead at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, said: "Lavish incentive payments should not be made to executives while their companies face an uncertain outlook and their employees are losing jobs.

The Somali pirates are not working hand in glove with renegade foreign naval officers; they do not sign treaties with foreign governments in exchange for lavish annual payments of tribute; they do not descend on faraway shores and carry away hundreds of innocent civilians at a time.

While other companies receiving smaller or different kinds of bailouts were subject to general compensation restrictions (like a ban on lavish severance payments or guaranteed bonuses), Feinberg's authority to set specific pay packages applied only to the seven companies that got the most TARP money.

Many of those newly elected budget slashers may target the lavish government payments to large wealthy farm operations.

During the Tuesday debate, Bauer claimed that illegal immigration was caused by lavish government welfare payments, which caused poor people to refuse to do manual labor.