Example sentences for: up-front

How can you use “up-front” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There's politics on both sides of the matter, says the Times : Korean politicians want up-front money to soften what are widely viewed in their country as the bailout's regulatory intrusions, while the Clinton administration has tried to make the U.S. contribution to the deal--estimated to be potentially $5 billion--more palatable by suggesting there's a chance it would never actually be needed.

  • According to the Post lead, the FBI's willingness to let the NTSB (the government's accident investigation body) remain for the time being in charge of the EgyptAir investigation, rather than officially ratcheting it up into an up-front criminal probe, has a payoff: It placates the Egyptian authorities, who therefore have been more cooperative in sharing flight and personnel records with the Bureau, which outside the U.S. has no power to seize evidence.

  • 1 The need for additional space for support systems ranges from no additional space needed to 2.5 acres typical for up-front reagent processing and 1 acre for dewatering when reagent processing and dewatering operations are selected as part of the FGD system design.

  • The tobacco/states talks broke up Wednesday, the WP reports, over the states' demands for an up-front payment of about $20 billion, twice the amount the companies offered in last year's negotiated settlement, left in limbo by the failure of the Congress to implement it.

  • many purposes, but one of its primary functions is to control obligations up-front before the government commitment is made.


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