Sentence examples for take sizable from inspiring English sources

Galleries will sometimes take sizable markups on works of art they purchase for resale, according to dealers.

The proposals would call on lenders or loan-servicing firms to reduce loan balances voluntarily and take sizable losses.

But these companies can and do take sizable tax deductions every year in which large blocks of options are exercised by executives.

Europeans are also discussing recapitalizing many European banks as insurance in case the crisis worsens; as well as forcing banks to take sizable losses on their holdings of Greek debt to help the country get back on its feet.

Portugal will need to take "sizable consolidation measures" next year and withdraw fiscal stimulus this year if it is to meet the European Union's deficit target of no more than 3 percent of gross domestic product by 2013, Fitch said.

Housing prices have not recovered from their tumble, making it harder to take sizable sums out of one's home to help finance retirement — either by selling one's house or through a reverse mortgage.

Back then, the prominent activist hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management announced that it had taken sizable positions in J. C. Penney and Fortune Brands.

Restore Our Future has also taken sizable contributions from other corporate entities whose business, structure and ownership is not immediately evident.

Justin Jones, who resigned as the head of Oklahoma's Department of Corrections last year, told me that he had repeatedly advised state legislators, some of whom took sizable campaign contributions from Avalon, about the recidivism rate of residents of private-sector halfway houses.

But anyone who bought — perhaps by bidding at a rate just below the failure rate — ran the risk of owning the bond until a default, and then taking sizable losses if the insurance company did not pay.

Through a similar arrangement, the Minnesota governor and a potential 2012 contender, Tim Pawlenty, collected $60,000 in late September from a Texas home builder, Bob J. Perry, one of the Republican Party's largest donors, and his wife, Doylene, and has taken sizable contributions from a slew of others.