And what they're offering in return for all that isn't half as good as they think it is — or I've never found it so.
At the last minute, the government has hit the pause button in order to take a hard look at what Hinkley is offering in return for £37bn of energy consumers' money.
They cause mortals to enact arbitrary contests (the Patriots versus the Dolphins what does that even mean?) for their own glory and diversion, offering, in return for those mortals' health and safety, sometimes handsome rewards and sometimes nothing.
In 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt met with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, offering legitimacy in return for a guaranteed supply of oil.
When smartphones became ubiquitous, and free QR code-scanning apps became available, marketers began running QR codes in ads and offering something in return for a scan — exclusive photos or a prize entry.
And, yes, Israel could well be bluffing, waving its big stick in order to make the rewards the Europeans, Americans, Russians and Chinese are offering Iran in return for an end to uranium enrichment look more tempting.
By offering cupcakes in return for a minimum donation (maybe £5 on your online fundraising page), the cakes are seen as a reward rather than being readily available to buy, which makes people willing to donate even more generously!
"A benevolent malefactor, a compassionate convict, offering forgiveness in return for hate, favoring pity over revenge, preferring to himself be destroyed to destroying his enemy, saving the one who had brought him down, this loathsome angel, this vile hero, who outraged him almost as much as he amazed him".
Yemen's interior ministry rounded up dozens of suspects but is said to be refusing to adopt some of the State Department's suggested extra security measures.Yemen is an increasingly fragile state, where President Ali Abdullah Saleh tries to neutralise enemies and troublemakers by binding them into loyalty bargains, offering freedom in return for information and good behaviour.
"Here is the deal they are offering you in return for your cooperation.
Reid Magney, a spokesman for the GAB -- which oversees the state's campaign finance, elections, ethics and lobbying laws -- said offering drinks in return for signatures doesn't actually appear to be illegal.
