He had abandoned blackmail for a more lucrative prize.

While Clark would probably have thought this an advantage, it also made the leadership a much more lucrative prize than it would have been.

Recently, he has become perhaps the top private patron of the arts in Ireland, financing lucrative prizes for artists, authors and musicians.

(2/15/99) eff Gordon won the Daytona 500 , auto racing's most lucrative prize, for the second time in three years.

The Department of Valle and the City Council had offered a lucrative prize of $ 9,500 pesos to the first pilot to land in the city.

These were entirely his own work, both earning him lucrative first prizes and being followed by construction of the prestigious bridges.

The following decade, Sydneysiders were mad about rowing, and lucrative prizes were given to local and national championships.

Banks would allow cotton speculators to come along, and Porter was bringing barges to collect cotton as lucrative naval prizes.

In the following month Mark-Ye-Well was described as a "sensation" after he took another lucrative prize when easily winning the $103,325 American Derby.

Because Erasmus Hall is one of the largest schools, it has been a lucrative prize for custodians, whose salaries rise with school size.