Sentence examples for prodigious sum of from inspiring English sources

This is a prodigious sum of money, it's a biblical sum in a cash-strapped service.

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.

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.

"We should stop any bashing or moaning or preaching or bitching and simply give thanks for the prodigious sums of money that they are contributing to the tax revenues of this country, and that enable us to look after our sick and our elderly and to build roads, railways and schools," he said.

The U.S. and other governments have already wasted prodigious sums of money on their misbegotten methods of trying to fix the economic crisis.

While the $602 million settlement in the Martoma case is a prodigious sum, it is considerably less than the maximum that the S.E.C. could have extracted.

The event was held at the home of a prominent McAllen developer, Alonzo Cantu, a hospital founder, investor and board member who has raised prodigious sums from the Rio Grande Valley for an array of Democrats.

Such a prodigious investment of time and talent indicates an equally prodigious amount of ambition, but surely there must be periods of self-doubt.

At Graham's and elsewhere, Poe wrote a prodigious amount of rather extraordinary literary criticism.

Its original pieces now sell in auction houses for prodigious sums.