Sentence examples for sum for work from inspiring English sources

Lord Sumption, now a supreme court judge, charged that sum for work over a period of 10 months – about £40,000 a day in court.

Not only did Roberts' performance in "Erin Brockovich" earn the star an Oscar, but it also netted her a $20 million salary, making her the first actress to be paid such a high sum for her work.

The sum for missed work time in a retrospective diary was predictive of the WPAI: IBS score.

These aim to attract big sellers of art by promising them a guaranteed minimum sum for individual works of art or entire collections, payable regardless of the auction outcome (plus a participation in the profit beyond a certain limit).

Endurance – assessed using absolute and relative parameters: Absolute – the sum of work done for all 25 repetitions.

In sum, Castro lived for work not family.

Gehry can command seven-figure sums for his work, but has agreed to take on the building as a tribute to his Scottish-born friend and colleague Maggie Jencks, who died of breast cancer three years ago aged 53.

But, as is evident in our annual performance-versus-pay survey (which weighs shareholder returns against pay over six years), plenty of bosses rake in large sums for mediocre work.

The DCA said all sums represented payments for work covering "many years, for a variety of cases", and included sums for VAT and other costs such as travel.

Lipscomb told me that he was contrite for sending the e-mail, but said that the defense attorneys had asked for an "excessive" sum for doing little work.

Indeed, Bernays recalls, on the basis of that story the Atlantic Monthly Press offered Broyard a twenty-thousand-dollar advance — then a staggeringly large sum for a literary work by an unknown — for a novel of which "Cystoscope" would be a chapter.