Sentence examples for pocketed from inspiring English sources

One prominent figure on trial is businessman Oswald Lutepo, a senior official in Banda's party, who is accused of theft and money laundering and is alleged to have pocketed more than $6m from government coffers through ghost companies that did not provide any services to the state.

On the eve of the fight, he weighed in at a respectable 220 pounds, pocketed his bonus and looked to make merry: "The day before the fight I also had two maids at the same time.

That money was allegedly pocketed by former Concacaf president, Jack Warner, who is on Interpol's wanted persons list for charges including racketeering, conspiracy and corruption.

At his place, I pocketed his keys and raced off on foot as he shouted after me in wasted outrage.

Shareholders of AWH stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars if a public-private partnership was agreed to by the government, with Icac hearing that Sinodinos would have likely pocketed about $10m.

But their mullah, who at one stage was flown to Kabul on a NATO plane, was an impostor who pocketed the cash he was given.

In Ecuador, the smallest member state of Opec, Correa turned to Beijing after his country defaulted on its bonds in 2008 and found a deep-pocketed business partner.

Cruz, a first-term senator who represents Texas, said deep-pocketed donors should have the same rights to write giant campaign checks as voters have to put signs in their front yards.

Assuming it gets that far, California's deep-pocketed public-employee unions will dig in to stop it becoming law.

At one time they might have hoped for a deep-pocketed foreign firm to provide it.

It is also hyper-competitive, thanks to a proliferation of both low-cost locals and deep-pocketed multinational companies.For intrepid SMEs still keen to try, help is at hand.