Sentence examples for up front May from inspiring English sources

"The borrower may have the ability to make a mortgage payment," Mr. Brown said, "but coming up with the cash up front may be a problem".

Points of Focus, while legal, reflects a system in which payments up front may have influenced business down the road.

The technology exists; the willingness to invest in that technology up front may or may not exist".

But, she said, "the dot-com bomb," coupled with many nannies preferring to be paid up front, may put an end to the stock option come-on.

It is possible that the Obama administration, which spent its first four years negotiating with Congress by offering its strongest hand up front, may use that legislation as a bargaining chip that it is willing to sacrifice to obtain the rest of its agenda.

Being up front may reduce your chance of getting an interview, if only slightly, because of the hassles everyone knows are involved in hiring two people simultaneously.

Paul Krugman is not the first winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science to be inspired by Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy ("Up Front," Aug. 9).

To the Editor: "The level of political discourse has dropped," Mark Lilla says (Up Front, Sept. 30), and his review contributes mightily to diminishing it.

Thus it was surprising to learn of President Obama's dismissive answer to an "online town hall" question about whether legalizing marijuana might, from an economic point of view, do more good than harm (Up Front, Aug. 5).

I have a copy of that first issue of Screw magazine pictured with your Up Front column (Nov. 19) — a memento of my unspent youth.

To the Editor: As expected, the Supreme Court has agreed to decide the constitutionality of the new health care reform law ("Justices to Hear Health Care Case as Race Heats Up," front page, Nov. 15).