Sentence examples for lavish sums from inspiring English sources

Ever vigilant, emperors spent lavish sums to build drainage systems to control floods.

Mr. Barnett has invested lavish sums to attract families willing to spend heavily on rent.

These lavish sums keep over 2m troops under arms, 750,000 of them conscripts.

British Parliamentarians have spent lavish sums in the last decade on replicas of Pugin designs, enraging taxpayers.

"There is a new thinking in the region and a re-evaluation of the need to spend lavish sums on weapons," said Iran's navy chief, Abbas Mohtaj, recently.

They lavish sums that to us appear extraordinary: the Saatchi children received £80 a week in pocket money; £120 for a night out.

Models in a Calvin Klein show are placed under exclusive contracts that restrict them from appearing on any other runways; are flown to Milan; put up in hotels rather than the overcrowded crash pads that are standard model housing; and paid for their time and talents at a figure experts estimate at about $10,000, a particularly lavish sum when the industry standards have dwindled.

That's scarcely a lavish sum alongside the paychecks highlighted on page 109.

Hays, later nicknamed the motion picture "Czar", was paid the then-lavish sum of $100,000 a year (equivalent to more than $1.4 million in 2014 dollars).

Their modern counterparts lavish huge sums on groups that support them.

But companies didn't need backdating to lavish huge sums of money on their executives: they could have issued more at-the-money options to make up the difference, or they could have just handed out grants of stock.