• He is also alleged to have stolen a sum of money from her home.

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  • They include a sum of money in 500-euro banknotes and two wigs, one of which he was apparently wearing at the time of his detention.

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  • If so vast a sum of money is to be spent, they argue, it should only be done in the framework of a deal that will address the long-term imbalances.

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  • The security services reportedly discovered 12 "adoption certificates" at a nursery in the Algiers suburb of El-Biar written between 2005 and 2006, with nine children sent abroad for a sum of money.

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  • Last year, the state passed a financing plan for the public schools under which each pupil is assigned a sum of money, weighted according to where they live and whether they have special needs.

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  • An attempt was made to hijack a bus in the area and commercial premises on O'Neill Road were broken into by several masked men who damaged the property and stole a sum of money.

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  • In addition to warding off droves of camera-clad onlookers at otherwise highly personal events, this type of arrangement guarantees both an image the stars approve of and a sum of money they pocket or, in many cases, donate to charity.

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  • At this time her husband told her that he had received a sum of money that he thought was a gift but which had been classified by the Inland Revenue as earnings, so that tax had to be paid on it.

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  • In many cases where permission has been granted to build a new store, a sum of money will be paid to the local authority by the supermarket chain to spend on community facilities through a planning arrangement known as a section 106 agreement.

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  • Of course, lenders are quick to point out that escrows are not actually a cost since they are just establishing the escrow reserves to pay your taxes and insurance, but it is a sum of money above and beyond the principal balance of the mortgage you are refinancing and it has to be funded by somebody!

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  • Many times, children are the ones offering a photo of themselves for a small sum of money, having learned from picture-hungry tourists that they can easily sell a snapshot.

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  • If the offer of a large sum of money influences me, a natural negative feedback is built into the system.

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  • Dubai is something of a special case, since anyone found guilty of issuing a dud cheque for a sizeable sum of money goes straight to jail.

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  • Whenever someone in the working poor or middle class receives a large sum of money, such as a tax return, he will usually spend all of that money.

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  • Fifteen years ago she decided to use that space to start a business with her husband and she made a very difficult decision to borrow a little sum of money from a couple of moneylenders.

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  • This case centers on a seven-month period in 2009 and 2010, at the beginning of which Claimant Stirling transferred a large sum of money to new, non-discretionary accounts with Respondent Dowley and his brokerage, all in cash or cash equivalents, with the intention of investing largely in equities, in order for her to profit from an expected upturn in the market.

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  • With interest rates so low, it makes sense for Apple to borrow a large sum of money rather than pay a big tax bill.

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  • "It is a big sum of money in the context of a police force where I want to get more uniformed officers back on the beat - it is a stark choice that has to be made, " he said.

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  • The last Xbox was a powerful piece of kit that appealed mainly to hard-core gamers, but it has lost Microsoft a considerable sum of money.

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  • The South Wales Central AM argued that investing a modest sum of money to attract new airlines would have a significant pay back to the economy in Wales.

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  • In July 1998, reports emerged that a staggering sum of money linked to Indonesia had been shifted from a bank in Switzerland to another in Austria, now considered a safer haven for hush-hush deposits.

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  • For instance, Bayern Munich, one of the best soccer clubs in the world, received a large sum of money for naming its state-of-art stadium Allianz Arena.

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  • This is understandable because managing a small sum of money in the early accumulation years is quite different than managing a large sum in retirement.

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  • What kind of information could the hedge fund clients expect to hear for such a tiny sum of money?

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  • At the time of his detention, Mr Fogle was wearing a blond wig and reportedly carrying a large sum of money, as well as technical devices and written instructions for the Russian agent he had tried to recruit.

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  • Before I order a CT Scan that adds to the cumulative ionizing radiation the patient has accumulated and spend a large sum of money, I want to eliminate the possibility that it could be addressed with a simpler, less invasive approach.

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  • Commercial providers only get paid a fixed sum of money when they meet performance-based milestones.

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  • Since then GM has discovered a solution: offer these people a large sum of money to go away.

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  • In the past, solar was prohibitive because it cost a large sum of money to put it up.

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  • They deny a large sum of money is involved, although they are not disclosing how much it is.

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