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Government-sponsored telecom networks remain a financially risky proposition that have consistently lost large sums of money.

Robert Rowe

I've never spoken to her. We communicate with e-mail and faxes. That pretty much sums up what the Web can do for a company.

Shawn Roop

We realized we will need to raise additional sums of money. We're going to be reaching out in the community.

Robert Denham

If we win trophies then I suppose we draw more fans and the club is more successful commercially. But it's not up to me to do the sums.

Luis Figo

They were very lucky because unfortunately it's sad to say but people who lose large sums of money don't ever see it again.

M. Hardman

It says, 'Natalie would like to dedicate this performance to an officer and a gentleman -- her husband Jared.' It kinda sums up her love for her husband.

Paul Dwyer

Managers were paid huge sums of money - running into millions of dollars - and have failed to prudently manage the company, putting jobs at risk.

Neil Anderson

It just does not fit into what else he has done. He has presented himself as a good-government person - and he does have a record of reform - which is why people are at a loss as to why he would spend significant sums of public money on promoting himself.

Dick Dadey

Local services are often seen as not being as cheap as supermarkets, but people don't do all the sums. In rural areas fewer people means there will be fewer sales, whereas in urban areas more people mean more sales. It is supply and demand.

Ray Holloway

It kind of sums up what our season was like all year. So close. It came down to the little things that made us come up on the bad end again.

Chuck Hayes

There's only one thing that sums up the match and that's the table.

Joe Swail

Zimbabwe Cricket has really had it now. The players relented from a similar position to give ZC a further three weeks until the end of the month to pay the large sums of money owed them. But they are now simply walking away.

Clive Field

You have an individual, who can at some points, I'm sure, carry large sums of money, who might feel he's vulnerable in some of the areas.

Ron Stevens

We're not talking about large sums of money. It is ironically only worth a couple of dollars to the Social Security check of the average American. They may be able to knock back a cold beer in a cheap bar.

Cary Leahey

Close but no cigar. That really just sums up the whole year.

Dan Messmann

There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough - the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.

Floyd Dell

I'm ticked off. Sometimes, you have days where it all sums up to an inefficient day. We haven't had that day yet. Today was the day.

Dave Rader

Taking into account the large sums looking for a home, it is likely that private-equity investors will be chasing bigger deals. And among Europe's largest companies, few can now be considered beyond the reach of buyout firms.

Brian Richardson

Right action is when the right people do the right thing for the right reasons at the right time. That about sums up success!

Rhoberta Shaler, Phd

But it's not something we would ever be able to do... unfortunately there are many things that could be done with vast sums of money like this.

Harold Mitchell

It just sums it all up, of how focused she is as a player. I think when she gets into a game, she blocks everything out, including records or anything like that. She just plays. Definitely, not one of those foul shots bothered her.

Sheila Dinardo

That sums up everything. We're not the quitter Verona team like everybody thinks we are. We're here to play and that's what we proved tonight.

Kirk Decremer

He's an outstanding coach and person. Class sums it up in one word.

Charles Zanders

He's trying to divert away attention from his own incompetence. What we're saying is this is a budgetary situation, it's simply a question of doing the sums right, if they did the sums at all.

David Stanton

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Alan Ayckbourn

Realistically no investor will release significantly large sums of money for projects in Zimbabwe before knowing the rules and regulations governing the industry.

Jack Murehwa

The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice.

Hugh Douglas

Our government has spent large sums of money to get the industrial base capable of producing and it has. And it has been delivered to the troops.

Genpeter Pace

We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.

Julian Huxley

Yes, that pretty much sums it up. On this we can all agree.

Jeffrey Steingarten

Is gentleness too much for usShould gentleness be filed along with empathyWe feel for someone else's childEvery time a smart bomb does its sums and gets it wrongSomeone else's child dies and equities in defence riseAmerica, America, please hear us when we callYou got hip-hop, be-bop, hustle and bustleYou got Atticus FinchYou got Jane RussellYou got free.

Roger Waters

There is no way the British Library would be able to afford some of the sums that have been mentioned so donation would be a preferred route.

Christopher Wright

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Agatha Christie

They did what they had to do down the stretch, and we didn't. That sums it up.

Milt Palacio

The bull market of the last 20 years means Americans are increasingly being asked to make big decisions about big sums of money. It pays to get professional advice, which can make a critical difference in how and when one retires. Relying on genes and luck is just an excuse for inaction.

Bridget A. Macaskill

Was I speared? I think so. Slam-dunked is probably the expression which sums it up best.

Brian O'driscoll

For those with smaller sums of money, [multi-managers] offer access to a diversified portfolio that would otherwise be hard to access.

Anna Bowes

Job-related crimes have been rampant in some industries and government sections over the past years, but the amount of money has risen, crimes are committed more cunningly and more officials are absconding with large sums of public fund.

Jia Chunwang

Given the current operational performance, the potential to free up large sums of cash and the absence of larger acquisition opportunities, I expect Philips may engage in further share buybacks or pay out higher dividends in 2006.

Marc Kennis

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

Dan Quayle

Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste.

Daniel Starch

It shows the brazenness of the people who were around those sums of money and what they thought they could get away with.

Frank Willis

I love to hear the sound of laughter; that pretty much sums up my soul. Laughter should go where it's needed.

Tom Dreesen

We have the ability of offering substantial sums for an individual who is this dangerous.

Stanley Borgia

Meryl Streep once testified famously before Congress, saying that she was there to represent the uninformed. Now, that sums it up pretty well when it comes to these celebrity issues.

Jonah Goldberg

Whether through apathy or confusion, the failure to claim these credits is just one way we're needlessly gifting vast sums to the taxman each year.

David Elms

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

This party kind of sums him up.

Bill Nielsen

This type of game hurts. Basically that sums up everything. You play your hearts out, you get ready all season for this type of game. We laid everything on the line ...

Chris Gaynor

By limiting your losses to 30 big bets, you are effectively minimizing the time you spend playing with a poor table image, playing passively, or steaming at the table and maximizing the amount of time you spend playing your A-game. If you don't go beyond 30 big bets, you won't dump off large sums when you are playing poorly or are in a bad game. Loss limiting acts as an objective stop-gap.

Annie Duke

Nothing is more equitable than having the citizens make decisions that are now made by these three or four supervisors who have received huge sums of money.

Chris Fitz

It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of.

Shirley Hazzard