The club has already made it clear it will not be spending lavish sums in an attempt to retain the SPL title.

At the same time several of the orginal cast members have extended their contracts for lavish sums.

For instance, the company spent lavish sums to build the world's most modern automated mills for producing corduroy and polyester-blend fabrics.

Herod was known to spend lavish sums on his various building projects and generous gifts to other kingdoms, including Rome.

The Fed may have to keep pouring lavish sums into the economy for several months in order to head off recession, economists and analysts say.

Executives and producers complain publicly about star salaries and costs, but keep shelling out lavish sums on films that often never quite pay off.

During the last several years, books have sold for lavish sums only when a star whose name means something at the box office wants to make the movie.

The budget for last year was $ 1.3 million - a comfortable but hardly lavish sum.

Even now, studio executives and producers cite the project as an example of how lavish sums can be spent on a book that never turns into a film.

Much play had been made in the Budget of the apparently lavish sums that some people can claim from the state.