Sentence examples for legitimate payoff from inspiring English sources

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The film made little sense without a legitimate payoff, and Hitchcock later admitted that he had not played fair with his audience.

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Men like Mr. Coke, who his lawyer has called a legitimate businessman, had long demanded payoffs from businesses, Mr. Matalon said.

This holds even for the OP-MA, for the corresponding motivations become more forceful in the setting in which it is considered legitimate to maximize one's own payoff.

"The series of articles in The New York Times set forth a sordid picture showing protec tion by the police of drug deal ers, gambling payoffs and the harassment of legitimate busi nessmen so as to extort money from them.

On the recent scandal surrounding payoffs to senior BBC executives, Mrs Fairhead said the corporation had faced "some legitimate criticisms of the process and the fact the payoffs were not made on contractual terms".

The kickback scheme worked, they said, because the payoffs could be included in otherwise legitimate supply contracts negotiated directly by the former government and then transferred to Iraq once the United Nations released funds to pay the suppliers.

But even people who understand that networking is a legitimate and necessary part of their jobs can be discouraged by the payoff--because they are doing it in too limited a fashion.

"This is a legitimate area of research," Mr. Norwood said, explaining that the agency is looking for "original, exotic techniques that could have huge payoffs in the future...

A payoff.

Your payoff?

But even people who understand that networking is a legitimate and necessary part of their jobs can be discouraged by the payoff because they are doing it in too limited a fashion.

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