Lurking behind Mr Ibrahim's worthy aims is the niggling sense that the money amounts to an annual bribe - a bribe for not accepting bribes - dangled like a fat carrot in front of the continent's elites, in the hope of steering them towards the sort of behaviour that should surely be taken for granted.
He's got huge amounts of money, huge amounts of Democratic excitement, and he doesn't have 50 percent, and he hasn't had 50 percent.
He said councils had the freedom and flexibility to develop their own schemes and ministers had urged them to be "sensible" about their collection policies so "they don't spend money collecting very, very small amounts of money".
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"It does arise that some of the ones we really want have asked for money and we can't justify spending large amounts of money, " he said.
Millionaires still will be able to spend their money in unlimited amounts.
Zaad, a mobile-money service, allows users to pay for goods by texting small amounts of money to a merchant's account, and is proving popular in Mogadishu.
So an unpopular movement applied for tax-exempt status under conditions made possible by an unpopular court decision, in order to influence politics with unfathomable amounts money from unnamed donors?
When life firms cut their yields last year, pension funds, led by the giant Nenpuku, which manages a chunk of the state pension kitty, withdrew their money in huge amounts.
Over the years Buffett has given moderate amounts of money to his three children, Susan, Howard and Peter.
He needs to extract promises from these leaders for actual amounts of money to be investment.
But to be fair, the issues are hellishly complex and the amounts of money involved staggering.
And China spends enormous amounts of money intervening in the market to keep it undervalued.
Consultants are paid large amounts of money to embed it into organizational systems and procedures.
They want to charge different amounts of money for different tiers of Internet service.
Mr. HARRIS: I mean, huge amounts of money for Barack Obama, and it's a big advantage.
So not having health insurance costs the economy huge amounts of money every year.
We're going to see 527s spend unlimited amounts of money on attack ads and partisan activity.
Details and large amounts of money at stake aside, this sounds like any story about old business negotiation.
Why do citizens and corporations keep donating increasing amounts of money to candidates for public office?
Did you find that people sometimes spent ridiculous amounts of money keeping their hair up?
The government is spending enormous amounts of money on stimulus projects with little value.
If countries are lending their neighbours vast amounts of money, they become further entwined.
The plan does, however, depend on American taxpayers stumping up huge amounts of money.
And if we're making those investments, we will save huge amounts of money in the long-term.
He was making huge amounts of money by using high-pressure techniques to sell timeshare vacation homes.
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The government has wasted huge amounts of money on botched IT projects designed by consultants.
First, record amounts of money will be spent in races across the country in 1998.
Unfortunately, this can cost unseemly amounts of money and may take months to produce tangible results.
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But they use different policies to do this, and spend different amounts of money.
They were also supported by a high-tech data operation that raised unexpectedly large amounts of money.
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