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If it is apparent that the sum asked for is not sufficient to deliver on key milestones, potential backers may shy away from a situation that could require further fund raising rounds and a possible dilution of their own shareholding.
Ahead of the talks, Mr Osborne said the sum being asked for was "unacceptable" and he would get a "better deal".
And, of course, the sum they have asked for may or may not represent the amount they actually need to make a game.
In due time the money arrived - the exact sum she had asked for, minus seventy-five cents.
The planters' ability to defeat lawsuits brought against them by Whitney for infringement of patent rights and their mounting wealth apparently induced a sense of guilt at denying the inventor any reward: in 1802 the state of South Carolina agreed to pay $50,000, half the sum asked by Miller & Whitney for the patent rights.
"For too many years, too many people in this country have been asked to pay too much to view televised sport and we knew that there were growing numbers of people who either wouldn't or who simply could not afford the sums that were being asked for," he said.
Some reporters who spent weeks living in Camp Hope, the tent village that sprang up when families gravitated to the site, exchanged letters with miners underground and were asked for large sums for interviews once the miners were out.
While Babbage repeatedly asked for vast sums of money from Parliament, the Scheutzes succeeded on a small budget.You are right that Babbage should be forgotten; had he succeeded, he would have met the same fate as the two Swedes.
But the Palestinian Authority, arguing that the money belonged to it, asked for the sum in cash, which Israel refused to provide, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said.
