It would be as though that extra 10% was just burned by the recipient.
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It was seized and then burned by French sailors off the Scottish coast in 1692.
Some firms competing to write business have been burned by Katrina and Wilma recently.
Many people have come to me having been burned by tax resolution scam operators.
Another is the gritty bunker fuel burned by the many ships in a once-fragrant harbour.
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His translation of the New Testament in 1524-26 was promptly banned and publicly burned by the Church.
Venture capitalists, burned by previous biotech investments and preoccupied with younameit.com, couldn't get a handle on Ambryx.
We get it, some of you are feeling a little burned by the iPad update today.
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Many stock investors had already been burned by the IPOs of Blackstone, Fortress Investment Group and Apollo.
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Having been burned by energy taxes, Democrats (except for Al Gore) abandoned the issue for a political generation.
Schmidt is chary with details, having been burned by Microsoft in his days at Sun Microsystems and Novell.
Fund groups have become attractive takeover candidates, as many banks that own them have been burned by the prolonged financial crisis.
The next project from Bioware will certainly come under extreme scrutiny from hardcore fans who felt burned by Mass Effect 3.
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Some retail investors also felt burned by revelations that analysts passed along lowered estimates for Facebook only to large institutional investors.
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It is possible to get burned by counting on the sanctity of a contract, even when its terms seem crystal clear.
It could reduce the likelihood that U.S. taxpayers once again will be badly burned by the disbursement of premature taxpayer credit guarantees.
Some investors, feeling burned by the steep drop, are selling their stakes.
Consumer Reports says it drew on research from a 2006 Entrepreneur.com article that analyzed the amount of additional fuel burned by heavy drivers.
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So the author has his father, a Polish Jew turned British Anglican, posthumously converted to Hinduism, and burned by the local Indian community.
Liberals, quite reasonably, do not want to see their accomplishments of the last century of effort slashed and burned by grumpy rich guys.
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Retail Indian investors, big buyers of IPOs until a few years ago, have become even more cautious after being burned by some new offerings.
Card companies, burned by credit losses and sweeping credit-card legislation passed last year, have scaled back on credit lines, becoming more selective on borrowers.
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All of this matters more today than in years past to investors who have gotten burned by scandal after scandal over the past decade.
Dennis Koyle, a 61-year-old farmer and saddle maker in Gooding, Idaho, pulled back on stock investments after being burned by the technology bubble in 2001.
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McCaw may also acquire his share of headaches, including dismal relations among Iridium's investors, and possibly lawsuits by stock- and bondholders burned by the bankruptcy.
He does acknowledge feeling burned by the size of the restatement.
For small businesses that often get burned by bank credit scoring models, these sites can help ease the pain with straightforward approvals for relatively small loans.
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This population is keenly suited for real estate investing since they were burned by stock market investments in 2008 as they purchased their first mutual funds in their 401(k).
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Iberia executives at the Madrid stock exchange put a brave face on the stock's opening fall, saying the airline represented value for investors burned by the meltdown in tech stocks.
Comerica began amassing its stake in Munder Capital in the 1990s and rode a wave of success during the tech bubble, only to get burned by writedowns when the bubble burst.
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