Sentence examples for vast salaries from inspiring English sources

Defenders of big pay packages like to claim that senior managers earn their vast salaries by boosting their firm's profits and stock prices.

Most other government advisers seem to be paid vast salaries for doing very little, and this is always thought to be perfectly proper.

The new revelations have come at a sensitive time in Iran, where a few months ago another scandal surrounding vast salaries paid to government officials prompted nationwide fury.

He came along in an age not only of vast salaries and crack cocaine and steroids and electronic blather but also in a time when addiction treatment has been integrated into organized sport.

We are determined to struggle against the managers and directors who have made deep cuts to their institutions and accepted vast salaries for themselves, while cheerleading the privatisation of higher education.

IN our own sporting age of vast salaries, commercial super-saturation and doping, the breaking of the 4-minute mile barrier 50 years ago, on May 6 , 1954 looks an increasingly pristine, heroic achievement.

Still, I'm glad to hear that Paxman is not spending that (allegedly) vast salary on something as frivolous as winter sun.

But Carney, a former governor of the Bank of Canada who was hired by George Osborne on a vast salary, didn't learn from his hopeless forward guidance missive.

Gregory DeFreitas, director of the labor studies program at Hofstra University, said the teachers' contract should not set a pattern "because it was signed 19 months after their old contract expired, because they began negotiations when the city had a surplus and because the teachers were a special case because of the vast salary gap with the suburbs".

We "donate" or allocate vast sums of money to development projects, and hire international advisors who are paid huge salaries to go in to fix the problem.

Equally unacceptable is the vast disparity in salaries among NUJ members doing similar jobs that, almost three years on from integration, has still to be rectified.