When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

Do its spokesmen seem more interested in the amount of money they collect than in the principles they purport to advocate??

It will determine the amount of money to be spent by the college and will certify this amount to the board of freeholders, which `` shall appropriate in the same manner as other appropriations are made by it the amount so certified and the amount shall be assessed, levied and collected in the same manner as moneys appropriated for other purposes ''.

The approval of only three members of the board of school estimate is required to certify the amount of money to be allotted to the college.

Don't you see the amount of money that has been invested by whites around that church??

Yet the huge amount of money consumed by the Selden litigation, which many regarded as wasteful, indirectly contributed to constructive changes in legal procedure.

Curtis Allen Huff, 41, of 1630 Lake Av., Wilmette, was arrested yesterday on a suppressed federal warrant charging him with embezzling an undetermined amount of money from the First Federal Savings and Loan association, 1 S. Dearborn St., where he formerly was employed as an attorney.

Union Oil Co. of California Tuesday offered $120 million in debentures to the public through a group of underwriters headed by Dillon, Read & Co., to raise money to retire a similar amount held by Gulf Oil Corp..

On 23 April 1196, King Béla III died and he left the Kingdom of Hungary unportioned to his eldest son, Emeric, while Andrew inherited a large amount of money in order to fulfill his father's Crusader oath.

In a public suit the litigants each had three hours to speak, much less in private suits ( though here it was in proportion to the amount of money at stake ).

For Joseph and his supports of Imperial reform, besides encouraging any first buddings of pan-national pride that would unite his multi-lingual and ethnic subjects under one common language ; they also hoped to save a considerable amount of money in the process.

A specific devise, is a specific gift in a will to a specific person other than an amount of money.

For instance a Chinese company wishing to raise more money may issue a depository receipt on the New York Stock Exchange, as the amount of capital on the local exchanges is limited.

Because the difference was small, a large amount of money had to be borrowed to make the buying and selling profitable.

However, there was still £ 13, 000 to pay on a mortgage, a fairly large amount of money in the 1880s, and Henry was at the time still only a mere parish priest.

Generally at the start of a venture, a small amount of money will be set aside for the bootstrap process.

At the end of the game, the last remaining housemate is declared the winner of that particular series and receives prizes, often including a large amount of money, a car, a vacation and ( in some editions ) a house.

Even though most proposals call for payments of less than the full amount of the debt owing, in most cases, the creditors will accept the deal, because if they do not, the next alternative may be personal bankruptcy, where the creditors will get even less money.

Historically, this was often a promise to exchange the money for precious metals in some fixed amount.

Psychotherapist and professor Andrew Samuels stated that this constitutes " a coup, a power play by a community that has suddenly found itself on the brink of corralling an enormous amount of money ... Everyone has been seduced by CBT's apparent cheapness.

By contrast, if M ( t ) denotes the amount of money in a bank account at time t, then the function jumps whenever money is deposited or withdrawn, so the function M ( t ) is discontinuous.

These prior and subsidiary decisions contribute, I think, to our sense of ourselves as responsible free agents, roughly in the following way: I am faced with an important decision to make, and after a certain amount of deliberation, I say to myself: " That's enough.

With our choice of units the marginal utility of the amount of the factor consumed directly by the optimizing consumer is again w, so the amount supplied of the factor too satisfies the condition of optimal allocation.

Therefore, it is the relatively small quantity of water in reserve in the earth ( about 1 % of our drinking water supply, which is replenished in aquifers around every 1 to 10 years ), that is a non-renewable resource, and it is, rather, the distribution of potable and irrigation water which is scarce, rather than the actual amount of it that exists on the earth.

Hertzsprung – Russell diagram identifying stellar luminosity as a function of temperature for many stars in our solar neighborhood. In astronomy, luminosity is the amount of electromagnetic energy a body radiates per unit of time.

" The hybridization experiments conducted by some of the owners of the five foundation herds of the late 1800s, have left a legacy of a small amount of cattle genetics in many of our existing bison herds.

Cato speaks of an enormous amount of breads ; included amongst these are the libum ( sacrificial cakes made with flour ), placenta ( groats and cress ), spira ( our modern day flour pretzels ), scibilata ( tortes ), savaillum ( sweet cake ), and globus apherica ( fritters ).

He was making a fantastic amount of money while we were working our asses off.

William DeFoore, an anger-management writer, described anger as a pressure cooker: we can only apply pressure against our anger for a certain amount of time until it explodes.

The secretary believed that the United States could afford any amount needed for national security, but that " this ability does not excuse us from applying strict standards of effectiveness and efficiency to the way we spend our defense dollars ….

This detailed action plan consists of numerous adaptive management strategies, including reducing our carbon footprint, which would ultimately reduce the amount of ocean acidification in the oceans surrounding the Great Barrier Reef.

What amount of knowledge and experience do we habitually demand of our lawgivers?

The editors expressed they could not ' apologize to to our readers for the amount of material in these pages.

The amount of value which labour transmits to the deer in our previous example, varies according to the intensity of the exploitation.

“ No, we will not step backward, our zeal will only be smothered in the tomb ; either the Revolution will triumph or we will all die .” Those who were to lead a period of such social turbulence as The Terror had to exhibit an exorbitant amount of fervor to overturn society in the pursuit of what was thought to be a better future, and Varenne — an extreme Montagnard — was such a person.

In a budget constraint between ‘ all other goods ’ and a ‘ voucher good ’ our budget constraint will shift out parallel to an amount equal to the amount of the voucher but the money we have to spend on ‘ all other goods ’ remains capped at the same amount we had to spend before the voucher.

Mill asserts that our determinant of the desirability of an action is the net amount of happiness it brings, the number of people it brings it to, and the duration of the happiness.

However, others have taken a stronger position and argued that the gap is a definite limit on our cognitive abilities as humans — no amount of further information will allow us to close it.

It was reported in September 2012 during the second Dr Garret FitzGerald Memorial Lecture at University College Cork by Seán Donlon, former secretary general at the Department of Foreign Affairs, that “ It came to our of Foreign Affairs attention that a substantial amount in three bank accounts in Dublin by the archbishop were way in excess of what was needed to run the nunciature.

correlate and store a huge amount of information-and have the advantage that the inverse transform returns the results of correlation into the spatial and temporal patterns that guide us in navigating our universe.

" But whether our currency will always be on a par with gold or not, ... the commercial and industrial prosperity of a country do not depend upon the amount of gold and silver there is in circulation.

The article quotes Keegan: " Uncomfortable as the ' spectacle of raw military force ' is, he concludes, that the Iraq war represents ' a better guide to what needs to be done to secure the safety of our world than any amount of law-making or treaty-writing can offer.