Sentence examples for prodigious sums from inspiring English sources

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

Perhaps it's understandable that C.E.O.'s are paid heroically when they succeed, but why pay prodigious sums when they fail?

But Democratic candidates for Congress have also raised prodigious sums from lobbyists, outdoing the Republicans, according to reports filed for the first time under a new ethics law.

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.

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.

Mr. Obama was the candidate who proposed the pledge in the first place, in February 2007, a time when he was not raising the prodigious sums he is now.

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

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.

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.

Underwood is the top-earning Idol alum for the second consecutive year, pulling in $10 million before taxes, thanks to six-figure nightly fees on the road, music sales and a lucrative role in NBC's The Sound of Music: Live! It's a prodigious sum, to be sure, but a sharp decrease from the $31 million she banked in 2013.

But their opponent was the San Diego Chargers, whose annual foibles despite prodigious talent might best be summed up by one play midway through the fourth quarter, when they were driving to take the lead.