Sentence examples for phantom dollars from inspiring English sources

But in many cases, the Bush administration says, states have paid their share with "phantom dollars," instead of state or local tax revenues.

Still, the dollars were phantom dollars, which drove the need for yet more deals, insiders say.

Initially Nancy, as if a stand-in for brokers in phantom-dollar mortgage-backed securities, did well effortlessly, selling pot to her stoner neighbors in Southern California.

For in ways that are wholly unanticipated, David does come to a greater understanding of not only who his father is but how he got that way and why that phantom million dollars looms so large in his life.

The impostor did not explain why Carney would be personally texting people about lost funds, or why the Bank of England governor would denominate the phantom sum in dollars.

He is the author of Tenure Discrimination and the Courts as well as Dishonest Dollars and Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions and the High Cost of Medicine.

A federal investigation into the City Council's longstanding practice of allocating millions of dollars to phantom nonprofit groups seems to have dealt a blow to Speaker Christine C. Quinn's fund-raising, based on her latest figures.

The cases, referred to an Iraqi court by the Commission for Public Integrity, accuse officials from various departments of misdeeds ranging from stealing money and accepting kickbacks to assigning millions of dollars to phantom rebuilding contracts that appeared on paper and nowhere else, commission officials said.

Gifford Miller, the former City Council speaker, has hired a criminal defense lawyer to represent him in a federal investigation into the Council's longstanding practice of allocating millions of dollars to phantom nonprofit groups, people involved in the case said on Friday.

Not only that, but by giving the World Cup to two countries this year -- and spectacularly permitting 20 gorgeous new or upgraded stadiums -- FIFA was responsible for 20 separate communities going into big-time debt for billions of dollars for phantom teams, games, leagues, events, concerts and conventions.

The higher a person climbs in the Vanguard organization, the more that person's compensation in the form of phantom shares with a dollar value is tied to the spread between the industry's expenses and Vanguard's.