Sentence examples for very substantial sums from inspiring English sources
"They withheld very substantial sums of money that I'm owed and look, I hate litigation," Mr. Rattner said.
That is, the youngsters live free at home, ("after all, they are high school kids") and are left with very substantial sums of money.
Such a lazy interpretation overlooks the ability of such fraudsters to divert very substantial sums from others through the mechanism of share price movements.
"It was the Paralympics and the necessity to get ready for it that gave us the impetus to spend very substantial sums at Green Park, King's Cross and elsewhere.
Furious at the Barclays' tactics, Paddy McKillen, an Irish property developer who remains a minority shareholder in Coroin, the fought-over hotel holding company, has taken his case to court, claiming that the brothers improperly arranged for "very substantial sums" to be paid to the wife of fellow shareholder Derek Quinlan in a side deal to ensure that they won control of the business.
He restricted himself generally to those cases which have already reached fruition: a News of the World reporter, for example, plus a private detective employed by that newspaper, who were tried, convicted, and jailed — and then, as Leveson points out in one of his more sulphuric applications of irony, "paid very substantial sums as compensation for loss of employment when they were released".
(Ford appealed, but settled the case for what Turner calls "a very substantial sum").
As a result, the very substantial sum of £3200 was raised, and that money largely paid for the building of Nassau Hall.
We can imagine your frustration but find it extraordinary that, even given a move abroad, you lost track of over £125,000, a very substantial sum.
The Ministry of Defence agreed to pass bids on to the sailors: the Daily Mail emailed an offer of "a very substantial sum".
"The previous agreement was signed in 1993, and at that time $4.5 million was a very substantial sum," Mr. Kudaiberdiyev said Thursday.
