This is a prodigious sum of money, it's a biblical sum in a cash-strapped service.
But he has not pressed the issue since then, and he has raised prodigious amounts of money under the existing rules.
But while people at the top of drug trafficking organisations earn prodigious amounts of money, people at the bottom earn very little.
Equally important is Ms. Bloom's ability to raise a prodigious sum of money in one of the most expensive districts of the country in which to run.
A PRODIGIOUS amount of money has been spent worldwide on putting government services online, but the results so far have been hard to measure and often disappointing (see chart 2).
Hollywood faces its own competition with Silicon Valley, which is also capable of raising prodigious amounts of money, and is fighting Hollywood over its push for Congressional action to curb Internet piracy.
Mr Paulson made prodigious amounts of money, but given the extraordinary profits of hedge funds (many run by ex-Goldman employees), he was not among the highest paid in the financial markets.
Prodigious sums of money will be spent by fervent and monied opponents like Sheldon Adelson in the states of senators who are tentatively supportive of the agreement, but nervous about a backlash.
If it is simply to make prodigious sums of money through television rights for the richest clubs in Europe, then I for one don't mind upstart Cypriots trying to upstage José Mourinho.
Elizabeth Warren has been so prodigious in raising money for her Senate campaign in Massachusetts that she is on track to become the top fund-raiser for the Senate this year, as well as one of the top Congressional fund-raisers of all time.
