When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures, however, believing that any sum they come up with is only a surface manifestation -- turned up by their inevitably limited policing -- of the real loot of the medical racketeer.

The names of foods are different as well, such as Manapua, from Hawaiian meaning " chewed up pork " for dim sum bao, though the meat is not necessarily pork.

During the course of his lifetime Sloane gathered an enviable collection of curiosities and, not wishing to see his collection broken up after death, he bequeathed it to King George II, for the nation, for the princely sum of £ 20, 000.

The collects of the Breviary are largely drawn from the Gelasian and other Sacramentaries, and they are used to sum up the dominant idea of the festival in connection with which they happen to be used.

To sum things up, the use of money in trading all goods ( capital / labor and consumer ) in all markets ( spot and financial ) combined with profit driven entrepreneurship and Darwinian natural selection in financial markets all combine to make rational economic calculation and allocation the outcome of the capitalist process.

The electric charge of a macroscopic object is the sum of the electric charges of the particles that make it up.

The sum and whole cause of the writings of this epistle, is, to prove that a man is justified by faith only: which proposition whoso denieth, to him is not only this epistle and all that Paul writeth, but also the whole scripture, so locked up that he shall never understand it to his soul's health.

This accord, which has been repeatedly extended up to the present day, provides for the television companies to make available an annual sum to support the production of films which are suitable for both theatrical distribution and television presentation.

Sir Nicholas had laid up a considerable sum of money to purchase an estate for his youngest son, but he died before doing so, and Francis was left with only a fifth of that money.

For the sake of simplicity, we might assume that the weights are normalized so that they sum up to 1 ( which can be easily done by dividing each weight by their sum ), thus allowing some terms in the above formulae to be omitted:

In mid-1848, President Polk authorized his ambassador to Spain, Romulus Mitchell Saunders, to negotiate the purchase of Cuba and offer Spain up to $ 100 million, an astounding sum at the time for one territory, equal to $ in present day terms.

He wrote a consort piece with the punning title " Semper Dowland, semper dolens " ( always Dowland, always doleful ), which may be said to sum up much of his work.

Similarly, the opportunity cost of attending university is the lost wages a student could have earned in the workforce, rather than the cost of tuition, books, and other requisite items ( whose sum makes up the total cost of attendance ).

This is because any simple n-gon can be considered to be made up of triangles, each of which has an angle sum of π radians or 180 degrees.

Like all triangular numbers, it is the sum of all natural numbers up to a certain point ; in this case: Furthermore, any even perfect number except the first one is the centered nonagonal number as well as the sum of the first odd cubes:

To sum up: Wittgenstein asserts that, if something is a language, it cannot be ( logically ) private ; and if something is private, it is not ( and cannot be ) a language.

When he was convinced that he might do so, he offered to give up the papacy into the hands of his godfather for a large sum of money.

For instance, Amr ibn al-As, after conquering Egypt, set up a census to measure the population for the jizya, and thus the total expected jizya revenue for the whole province, but organized the actual collection by partitioning the population into wealth classes, so that the rich paid more and the poor less jizya of that total sum.

In quantum computation, on the other hand, allowed operations are unitary matrices, which are effectively rotations ( they preserve that the sum of the squares add up to one, the Euclidean or L2 norm ).

where the's sum up to 1, and in the infinite dimensional case, we would take the closure of such states in the trace norm.

" The structure of a dissertation consists in an introduction that elucidates the basic definitions involved in the question as set, followed by an argument or thesis, a counter-argument or antithesis, and a resolving argument or synthesis that is not a compromise between the former but the production of a new argument, ending with a conclusion that does not sum up the points but opens onto a new problem.

The Trust was funded by a gift of $ 10 million ( a then unprecedented sum: at the time, total government assistance to all four Scottish universities was about £ 50, 000 a year ) and its aim was to improve and extend the opportunities for scientific research in the Scottish universities and to enable the deserving and qualified youth of Scotland to attend a university.

* 2007 – Airport police officer María del Luján Telpuk discovers a suitcase containing the undeclared sum of US $ 800, 000 as it goes through an x-ray machine in Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, Argentina sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina known as " Maletinazo ".

Baseballs cost three dollars apiece, a hefty sum at the time, which in 1900 would be equal to $ today ; club owners were therefore reluctant to spend much money on new balls if not necessary.

As a result of the deaths, leaks, and other design flaws, the consortium that oversaw the project agreed to pay $ 407 million in restitution, and several smaller companies agreed to pay a combined sum of approximately $ 51 million.

The total sum loaned to EriTel was $ 23 million dollars.

The 1st United States Congress voted to pay Washington a salary of $ 25, 000 a year — a large sum in 1789.

At seventeen he was grossing $ 2, 400 a year — a handsome sum for the times.

In her prime, she made over $ 50, 000 a year, then a vast sum, far more than her husband's $ 20, 000 per year.

For example, < tt > ADD $ 0 ,$ 1, 3 </ tt > means " Set $ 0 to the sum of $ 1 and 3.

To get the percentage, we add $ 30 and $ 10 to get a sum of $ 40 and then divide $ 10 by $ 40, giving us 1 / 4, or 25 %.

According to the terms of the treaty, the U. S. was to pay the stockholders of the French company that had tried to build the canal across Panama the sum of $ 40, 000, 000.

In 1873, it became known that Allan had contributed a large sum of money to the Conservative government's re-election campaign of 1872 ; some sources quote a sum over $ 360, 000.

He left an estate valued at just under $ 2 million, a very substantial sum for the time, to his widow, Lady Askin.

There was a widespread recognition that something must be done, and " in 1858 Morse was awarded the sum of 400, 000 French francs ( equivalent to about $ 80, 000 at the time ) by the governments of France, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Piedmont, Russia, Sweden, Tuscany and Turkey, each of which contributed a share according to the number of Morse instruments in use in each country.

Each æstel was worth the princely sum of 50 mancuses, which fits in well with the quality workmanship and expensive materials of the Alfred jewel.

Gauss's presumed method was to realize that pairwise addition of terms from opposite ends of the list yielded identical intermediate sums: 1 + 100 = 101, 2 + 99 = 101, 3 + 98 = 101, and so on, for a total sum of 50 × 101 = 5050.

The U. S. paid 50 million francs ($ 11, 250, 000 ) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($ 3, 750, 000 ), for a total sum of 15 million dollars ( less than 3 cents per acre ) for the Louisiana territory ($ million in dollars, less than 42 cents per acre ).

Another treaty with King Eric II of Norway was hammered out, in which for the sum of 50, 000 groats he would supply 100 ships for four months of the year, so long as hostilities between France and England continued.

Ironically, Allan Loughead himself had planned to bid for his own company, but had raised " only " $ 50, 000 ($), which he felt was too small a sum for a serious bid.

Once, when he was pulled over for a $ 50 speeding ticket ( a large sum at the time ), he gave the officer a $ 100 bill ; when the officer protested that he couldn't make change for that much, Johnson told him to keep the change, as he was going to make his return trip at the same speed.

The bomber informs him that another bus is rigged with a bomb that activated when the bus exceeds 50 miles per hour and then will detonate when it falls below that, demands a larger sum of money to deactivate the device, and warns that trying to remove the passengers will cause him to set off the bomb.

In the early 1880s, U. S. Army Chaplain, Winfield Scott, who was lured in to help promote Phoenix and the surrounding area, was impressed with the region and paid the paltry sum of $ 2. 50 an acre for a stretch of land where the city is now located.

His net worth at this time was approximately $ 50, 000, 000 ( million ), an enormous sum for the time period.

Andrews bought 50 acres ( 200, 000 m < sup > 2 </ sup >) of land for the sum of $ 1, 200.

A portrait might take three weeks of work, allowing for the nuisance of dealing with a cranky sitter ; by 1927-8 de Lempicka could charge 50, 000 French francs per portrait ( a sum equal to about US $ 2, 000 then — perhaps ten times as much today ).

It is defined as the sum of the squares of the market shares of the 50 largest firms ( or summed over all the firms if there are fewer than 50 ) within the industry, where the market shares are expressed as fractions.

The structure was completed in the short space of three years for the sum of £ 50, 000.

Stephens was actually able to buy the city of Copan for a sum of $ 50 and had dreams of floating it down the river and into museums in The United States.

The studio was also the most lucrative of 2004, with over $ 1. 338 billion dollars in the domestic box office with movies such as Spider-Man 2, 50 First Dates, and The Grudge, and in 2006, Columbia, helped with such blockbusters as: The Da Vinci Code, The Pursuit of Happyness, Casino Royale, and Open Season, not only finished the year in first place, but it reached an all time record high sum of $ 1. 711 billion, which was an all-time yearly record for any studio until Warner Bros. surpassed it in 2009.

It would be difficult to convince a man possessed of £ 20, 000, or any other sum, that a perpetual payment of £ 50 per annum was equally burdensome with a single tax of £ 1000.

A few years later, Quock Walker, a black slave, sued his master for false imprisonment ; the jury found for Walker, and awarded him damages of £ 50 ( not a small sum in those days ).

Under the terms of the will, £ 500 was bequeathed to each of the acting executors ; £ 100 to Miss Mary Jackson ; £ 100 to each of two nieces ; £ 200 to Lady Gull's maid ; £ 50 to Sir William's amanuensis, Miss Susan Spratt ; and an annual sum of £ 32 10s to his butler, William Brown, for the rest of his life.

As a young man he secured employment as a courier for the Neapolitan Royal Mail, making the round trip between Terracina and Naples twice a week for 50 ducats a year, a considerable sum, while becoming intimately familiar with the local terrain, which had a reputation for brigandage, knowledge that would later serve him in good stead.

Nevertheless, the French posted a 50, 000 ducat reward for anyone who killed or captured him, a sum equivalent to millions of dollars today.

The cost of the line was £ 3. 6 million ( equivalent to £ in ) — 50 per cent above the estimate and a colossal sum for the time.

In 1860, in order to stimulate excellence in attainments of the students, a series of annual prizes was established, commencing with $ 250, and diminishing regularly by $ 50, until the sum of $ 100 was reached.