The Moriscos managed to get this suspended for forty years by the payment of a large sum (80,000 ducados).

A simple example will make the differences plain: suppose a testator wanted to arrange for the payment of a sum of money to a certain person.

A qualifying donation is a payment of a sum of money which is not a distribution of profit.

My informant, who is a junior clerk in one of the departments, would not tell me without payment of a sum of money.

That everyone should prove his great worth by acquiring a Party card - upon payment of a certain sum, of course.

To be tied down to the regular payment of such a sum, on every rent day, is by no means desirable: it takes away one's independence.

'Do you mean on payment of a sum of money?'

Thus prisoners of war may be released or slaves freed on the payment of an agreed sum being received.

As for Francesco, he escaped, as on the two previous occasions, by the payment of a large sum of money.

Lastly, we think it is important, and this must be clear, to guarantee the payment of a certain sum from our budget.