Assessors in Rhode Island are charged not only with placing a valuation upon real and personal property, but they also have the responsibility to raise by a tax `` a sum not less than nor more than '' a specified amount as ordered by a city council or financial town meeting.

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.

In modern usage, the term " dictator " is generally used to describe a leader who holds and / or abuses an extraordinary amount of personal power, especially the power to make laws without effective restraint by a legislative assembly.

The amount used generally depends on the type of music being performed as well as the personal preferences of the player.

An unprecedented amount of personal investing occurred during the boom, and the press reported the phenomenon of people quitting their jobs to become full-time day traders.

Rockefeller calmly informed his golfing partners of the amount of the fine, and proceeded to shoot a personal record score, later stating, " Judge Landis will be dead a long time before this fine is paid.

According to current gedoogbeleid the possession of a maximum amount of five grams cannabis for personal use is not prosecuted.

Koestler and others viewed it as a true believer's last service to the Party ( while preserving the little amount of personal honor left ) whereas Bukharin biographer Stephen Cohen and Robert Tucker saw traces of Aesopian language, with which Bukharin sought to turn the table into an anti-trial of Stalinism ( while keeping his part of the bargain to save his family ).

On the basis of this requirement, application of the income tax to income derived from real estate and specifically income in the form of dividends from personal property ownership such as stock shares was found to be unconstitutional because it was not apportioned among the states ; that is to say, there was no guarantee that a State with 10 % of the country's population paid 10 % of those income taxes collected, because Congress had not fixed an amount of money to be raised and apportioned it between the States according to their respective shares of the national population.

They also seem to have been allowed to practice religious rites and, according to Thucydides, own a limited amount of personal property.

Henson attempted to purchase his freedom for $ 450, but after selling his personal assets to raise $ 350 and signing a promissory note for the remainder Henson's owner raised the price to $ 1000 ; Henson was unable to prove that the original agreement had been for a lesser amount.

Koestler and others viewed Bukharin's testimony as a true believer's last service to the Party ( while preserving a small amount of personal honor ) whereas Bukharin biographer Stephen Cohen and Robert Tucker saw traces of Aesopian language, with which Bukharin sought to turn the table into trial of Stalinism, while keeping his part of bargain to save his family.

While children under 13 can legally give out personal information with their parents ' permission, many websites altogether disallow underage children from using their services due to the amount of paperwork involved.

For example approximate prices ( as on January 2010 ) of Gasoline ( Petrol ) is 5 US $ per Liter, electricity prices close to 0. 33 US $ per unit, A domestic gas bottle ( or gas cylinder ) is slightly over 20 US $, Rent for average family accommodation, two bedroom apartment-approximately US175-US $ 200 per month in safe ( Georgetown city center ) locations and personal income tax, which is 33. 33 % ( one third ) of total taxable income ( amount that exceeds approximately G $ 20, 000 ( US $ 100 ) adds to the difficulties.

The amount of time a steak is cooked is based upon personal preference ; shorter cooking times retain more juice, whereas longer steak cooking times result in drier, tougher meat but reduce concerns about disease.

He worked hard on little but to increase his personal fortune, which in 1984 was estimated to amount to US $ 5 billion, most of it in Swiss banks ( however, a comparatively small $ 3. 4 million has been found after his ousting ).

The amount of power this gives to an individual Chancellor depends on his personal forcefulness, his status with his party and his relationship with the Prime Minister.

A considerable amount of information about the life of Archilochus has come down to the modern age via his surviving work, the testimony of other authors and inscriptions on monuments, yet it all needs to be viewed with caution — the biographical tradition is generally unreliable and the fragmentary nature of the poems doesn't really support inferences about his personal history.

The other axis ( Authoritarian-Libertarian ) measures one's political opinions in a social sense, regarding a view of the appropriate amount of personal freedom: " libertarianism " is defined as the belief that personal freedom should be maximised, while " authoritarianism " is defined as the belief that authority and tradition should be obeyed.

A systematic review of 137 studies found that personal expectations, the amount of support from caregivers, quality of the caregiver-patient relationship, and involvement in decisionmaking are more important in women's overall satisfaction with the experience of childbirth than are other factors such as age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, preparation, physical environment, pain, immobility, or medical interventions.

An SR-22 is an administrative form that attests to an insurance company's coverage, or the posting of a personal public bond in the amount of the state's minimum liability coverage for the licensed driver / or vehicle registration.

During the Great Depression ( in which she reportedly lost a sizable amount of her personal wealth ) she took her show on the road.

The couple evenly divided that amount and their personal assets, terminating their business relationship.

The great increase in the amount of archaeological activity, and therefore information, in the years immediately preceeding and following the Second World War has brought to light data which has changed the complection of the Saxon Shore dispute.

Among this latter group there were also differences in the amount and kind of information necessary before a shift in reaction occurred.

The many linguistic techniques for reducing the amount of dictionary information that have been proposed all organize the dictionary's contents around prefixes, stems, suffixes, etc..

If all forms of a paradigm are grouped together within the dictionary, a considerable reduction in the amount of information required is possible.

Entries are summarized only when by doing so the amount of information retained in the dictionary is reduced and the time required for dictionary operations is decreased.

There was a marked contrast in the amount of information on bride and groom.

It assumes that one party has an unlimited amount of information ( usually through some kind of expertise ) and can act as the ‘ information services provider ’ ( pg 268 ) while the other party acts as the ‘ information services consumer ’ ( Bordewijk and Kaam, 1986: 268 )

The cerebellum is responsible for integrating significant amount of neural information that is used to coordinate smoothly ongoing movements and to participate in motor planning.

Discoveries, later in the 20th century, of sunken trading vessels such as those at Uluburun and Cape Gelidonya off the south coast of Turkey have brought forth an enormous amount of new information about that culture.

The amount of biographical information regarding Aelbert Cuyp is tremendously limited.

The large Tactical Information Display ( TID ) in the RIO's cockpit gave an unprecedented amount of information to the aircrew ( the pilot had the ability to monitor the RIO's display ) and, importantly, the AWG-9 could continually search and track multiple targets after Phoenix missiles were launched, thereby maintaining situational awareness of the battlespace.

The folds increase the surface area of the cortex and therefore increase the amount of gray matter and the amount of information that can be processed.

A key characteristic of bandwidth is that a band of a given width can carry the same amount of information, regardless of where that band is located in the frequency spectrum.

Over the past few decades rapid developments in genomic and other molecular research technologies and developments in information technologies have combined to produce a tremendous amount of information related to molecular biology.

Christopher Hitchens represents conspiracy theories as the " exhaust fumes of democracy ", the unavoidable result of a large amount of information circulating among a large number of people.

Despite the large amount of information available, the most important aspects of perception remain mysterious.

Benford's law of controversy, as expressed by science-fiction author Gregory Benford in 1980, states: Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real ( true ) information available.

It is estimated that the total amount of the information that is stored on the world's storage devices could be further compressed with existing compression algorithms by a remaining average factor of 4. 5: 1.

In both lossy and lossless compression, information redundancy is reduced, using methods such as coding, pattern recognition and linear prediction to reduce the amount of information used to represent the uncompressed data.

Compression reduces the amount of bandwidth space needed to send information.