Sentence examples for of significant sums from inspiring English sources

It meant that the government tried to slide through parliament without adequate consideration, regulations that would eventually deprive our constituents of significant sums of money.

Since Fifa was aware of significant sums paid to certain of its officials, it is difficult to imagine that Mr Blatter would not have known about this.

His father's close links with Italy, plus the payment of significant sums of Libyan taxpayers' money, saw him move to the Serie A club Perugia in 2003, despite being nowhere near good enough.

But it wasn't a sudden surge of enthusiasm that jumpstarted the sci-comm movement, it was the availability of significant sums of cash, and the resources to set up an array of co-ordinated activities – master's courses, scholarships and the like – that ultimately snowballed into a noisy and unruly sci-comms community, and to a scientific dialogue that's growing in maturity.

The rodents, he said, personify growing frustration here with crimes committed by immigrants, as well as widespread discontent with the high local taxes and with the periodic crackdowns on tax evasion issued by the Italian finance minister, Giulio Tremonti, that have led to the repatriation of significant sums to Italy.

However, it also has facilitated the transfer of significant sums of money to teams that ultimately proved themselves to be incompetent, leaving backers with nothing.

Band's allies were accused of taking "significant sums of money from my parents personally" and of referring to her father "in very derogatory ways".

"It is extremely unfortunate that this announcement was made at the last minute, even as the university was in the process of spending significant sums of money and preparing for substantial disruption of campus life in order to provide the needed security for these events," Dan Mogulof, a spokesman for the university, said in an emailed statement.

"It is extremely unfortunate that this announcement was made at the last minute, even as the university was in the process of spending significant sums of money and preparing for substantial disruption of campus life in order to provide the needed security for these events," Mogulof said.

Justice McClellan warned that the commission would be expensive and would "require the commitment of very significant sums of public money".

The conditions in which corruption is likely to thrive already exist – low levels of transparency, poor external scrutiny, networks of cronyism, reluctance or lack of resource to investigate, outsourcing of public services, significant sums of money at play and perhaps a denial that corruption is an issue at all.