Sentence examples for sums put aside from inspiring English sources

The pioneers underestimated the costs of decommissioning, and the meagre sums put aside for this were further diluted during privatisation, says Malcolm Grimston of Chatham House, a think-tank.Mismanagement has probably made a tough job more difficult.

All news companies have sums of money put aside for unexpected breaking news stories, but who could ever have imagined a situation where world-changing stories were occurring in the Ukraine, Gaza, Ferguson, while at the same time trying to cover ISIS and an Iceland volcano?

The extra money – equal to the sum the chancellor put aside for fixing the country's potholes – follows a hefty £1.4bn cut in capital spending for science facilities that was outlined last year after the comprehensive spending review.

The statistics paint a bleak picture: 11 million vehicles have been affected; the sum it has put aside for the scandal has just been increased to 16.2 billion Euros, up from 6.7 billion; and 70,000 employees in Wolfsburg will be forced to take two weeks off this month.

In a speech before the Tax Foundation, a policy group here that advocates lower taxes, Treasury Secretary John W. Snow said his staff was preparing "a number of proposals to simplify the tax code" and resurrected the idea of "lifetime savings accounts" that would allow people to put aside large sums of money and pay no tax on the investment income they receive.

L.A. Unified avoided such measures by starting to put aside higher sums in a self-insurance fund.

Previously, the legislation could have allowed regulators to require that companies such as Nebraska-based Berkshire put aside large sums to cover potential losses.

In September, the bank put aside a sum for a possible settlement based solely on Barclays' $450 million settlement.