Sentence examples for sum set aside from inspiring English sources

The largest chunk of this was a £400m sum set aside to cover costs arising from the same probe as affected Barclays' results; there was also another £100m reserved to compensate customers who were mis-sold payment-protection insurance.And RBS and Barclays are not the only banks being forced to lay aside huge sums for compensation or pay crippling fines.

I wonder how many of the up to 30,000 patients who will have their operations cancelled on Thursday could ever imagine having such a sum set aside for their own retirement, and of which over 85 per cent would come courtesy of the taxpayer?

Despite the huge sums set aside by 15 major investment banks between 2008 and 2014, Moody's warned that scrutiny of the activities of bankers was not receding.

On top of the huge sums set aside to increase the capital and liquidity of the financial firms taking part are plans to subject the sector to greater scrutiny.

By training and education, he was a biologist, but he had no aptitude for the sciences and kept moving from job to job, unable to secure tenure, until he abandoned both the university and his family and went to New York to work as a junior editor, sending home paltry sums set aside from his paltry salary.

The sums set aside for food stamps, health care for the poor, education, transportation and much else would atrophy.Mr Ryan speaks with conviction about the imperative of reining in the deficit, but the underlying premise of his ideas is not so much fiscal rectitude as small government.

Stallybrass worried over this loss of college autonomy, although it was matched with a doubled grant from the government and huge sums set aside for capital spending.

More than half of this remaining sum was set aside by the company's board several years ago to pay for new productions.

If they fail to graduate, they will forfeit a lump sum payment set aside by the filmmakers to help the children get a start in life.

The government's Finance Minister has just estimated that to meet the "phenomenon of repatriation" twice the sum originally set aside for it will now have to be raised, which may even unbalance the 1962 national budget.

The largest sum is set aside for a category that includes just 14 groups, all of them fairly large, all established in the 1980's, and most of them run by whites.