Sentence examples for run up substantial from inspiring English sources

"We have run up substantial legal costs.

In nearly two days of Senate debate so far this week, not one senator has stepped forward to defend the card companies or blame consumers who have run up substantial credit card debt for causing some of their own problems.

Haskell is understood to have run up substantial legal fees in an effort to clear his name, and the incident was reportedly responsible for a lucrative offer from a Super 15 club being withdrawn.

Bosses today said the council had run up "substantial legal costs" battling the claim, and would most likely have to deal with the huge bill by borrowing money - the only alternative being impossible 150% council tax rises, or extreme cuts in services.

"We are concerned that children and their parents could be subject to unfair pressure to purchase when they are playing games they thought were free, but which can actually run up substantial costs," said Cavendish Elithorn, the OFT's senior director for goods and consumer.

He also ran up substantial medical bills, which, he said, his insurer initially balked at fully paying.

Two can have a burger and a beer here for less than $40, or run up a substantial bill.

Harold Ford (D-Morning Joe) reminds him that the GOP ran up some substantial debt and that you can only blame Obama for a few things.

And when Chinese companies spend these dollars outside the United States, they do not run up against American national security laws, which have been a substantial barrier to Chinese investment.

Kayak stumbled in its run up to the public markets as it worked to develop more substantial revenue streams and, likely, in retrospect would say that it filed for an IPO a tad prematurely.

I imagine a substantial part of her salary went into paying for a nanny - current costs can run up to £400 a week.