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Conquest says that the application of party theory to the Kazakhs, and to a lesser extent to the other nomad peoples, amounted economically to the imposition by force of an untried stereotype on a functioning social order, with disastrous results.
The World Bank and other international financial institutions pressured Congo to institute sweeping civil service reforms in order to reduce the size of the state bureaucracy and pare back a civil service payroll that amounted to more than 20 % of GDP in 1993.
In order to finance the budget deficit, which amounted to 100 million livres in 1745, Machault d ' Arnouville created a tax on the twentieth of all revenues which affected also the privileged classes ( Edict of Marly, 1749 ).
According to Oppenheim, the corpus of cuneiform literature amounted to around 1, 500 texts at any one time or place, approximately half of which, at least from the first millennium, is extant in fragmentary form, and the most common genres included ( in order of predominance ) are omen texts, lexical lists, ritual incantations, cathartic and apotropaic conjurations, historical and mythological epics, fables and proverbs.
In order to finance the budget deficit, which amounted to 100 million livres in 1745, Machault d ' Arnouville created a tax of 5 percent on all revenues ( the vingtième ), a measure that affected the privileged classes as well as the rest of the population.
Putting aside whatever volunteer and militia battalions might have been mobilized in British North America ( i. e, the Province of Canada, equivalent to the southern third of modern-day Ontario and Quebec, and the colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, which did not include much of modern Newfoundland's territory on Labrador ), in 1862 ( none were mobilized in 1861 ), the reality is that Britain's effective order of battle in the theater amounted to the following:
The Mendenhall order amounted to a formal announcement of a change that had already occurred ( Mendenhall 1893 ).
" So, in order to create a believable pair of magic systems, I researched what amounted to Newtonian versus Quantum mechanics and, later, competing visions of quantum theory.
Russian terms amounted to total Polish capitulation, and even so Lenin stalled in order to give his armies time to take Warsaw and conclude the war to Russia's advantage.

amounted and for
In six years, U.S. aid had amounted to more than $1.60 for each American -- a total of three hundred million dollars.
The cumulative total of construction contracts for the first ten months of 1961 amounted to $634,517,000, a 4 per cent increase compared to the corresponding period of last year.
This amounted to 700 million sesterces stored at Brundisium, the staging ground in Italy for military operations in the east.
Also excluded from voting were citizens whose rights were under suspension ( typically for failure to pay a debt to the city: see atimia ); for some Athenians this amounted to permanent ( and in fact inheritable ) disqualification.
As of 2005, the budget was no more than $ 400 mln., while military spending for 2009 amounted to more than $ 1. 3 bln.
In 2007 fiscal it amounted for 21. 1 percent of total exports of Cyprus.
The value of exports amounted to US $ 1. 9 billion in 1996, but the contribution to the trade balance was only US $ 520 million because many of the basic materials for the free zones had to be imported and paid for.
In 1692, Defoe was arrested for debts of £ 700 ( and his civets were seized ), though his total debts may have amounted to £ 17, 000 His laments were loud and he always defended unfortunate debtors but there is evidence that his financial dealings were not always honest.
These pleas for independence and referendum augured poorly for the US, Britain and Ethiopia, as a confidential American estimate of Independence Party support amounted to 75 % of Eritrea.
The above peculiarities of this ( already extinct ) Eskimo language amounted to mutual unintelligibility even with its nearest language relatives: in the past, Sirenik Eskimos even had to use the unrelated Chukchi language as a lingua franca for communicating with Siberian Yupik.
By 2010, the market for Ethernet equipment amounted to over $ 16 billion per year.
The " gender feminists ", as she termed them, were the band of feminists responsible for the movement, which she felt amounted to negationism.
In the Report of the Technical Committee on Refugees ( Submitted to the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine in Lausanne on 7 September 1949 )- ( A / 1367 / Rev. 1 ), in paragraph 15, the estimate of the statistical expert, which the Committee believed to be as accurate as circumstances permitted, indicated that the refugees from Israel-controlled territory amounted to approximately 711, 000.
He agreed to the role only on assurance that he would be paid a large sum for what amounted to a small part, that he would not have to read the script beforehand and his lines would be displayed somewhere off-camera.
Their direct remittances have amounted to $ 12. 1 million per year recently, and they account for more than half of all tourist visits.
Asphalted all-weather roads, excluding paved streets in cities and towns, amounted to roughly 3, 000 to 3, 500 kilometers, of which the Khartoum-Port Sudan road accounted for almost 1, 200 kilometers.
" The contract also stipulated that the film would be " non-political ," that immediately available funding came from Mrs. Sinclair in an amount of " not less than Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ," that the shooting schedule amounted to " a period of from three to four months ," and most importantly that " Eisenstein furthermore agrees that all pictures made or directed by him in Mexico, all negative film and positive prints, and all story and ideas embodied in said Mexican picture, will be the property of Mrs. Sinclair ..." A codicil to the contract, dated December 1, allowed that the " Soviet Government may have the film free for showing inside the U. S. S. R ." Reportedly, it was verbally clarified that the expectation was for a finished film of about an hour's duration.
In the campaign of 1813 Allied forces in the German theater alone amounted to nearly one million whilst two years later in the Hundred Days a French decree called for the total mobilization of some 2. 5 million men ( though at most a fifth of this was managed by the time of the French defeat at Waterloo ).
Yet in 1935, the education budget for the entire country of Tanganyika amounted to only ( US ) $ 290, 000, although it is unclear how much this represented at the time in terms of purchasing power parity.
* Historical Internet traffic – In 1993, total Internet traffic amounted to approximately 100 TB for the year.
As Valens had no successor, Gratian's appointment of Theodosius amounted to a de facto invitation for Theodosius to become co-Augustus for the East.

amounted and throughout
In 1961, the dispossession of farmland had produced 40, 000 landless families and by 1969 their numbers amounted to 400, 000 throughout Colombia.
Integralism, claiming a rapidly growing membership throughout Brazil by 1935, especially among the German-Brazilians and Italian-Brazilians ( communities which together amounted to approximately one million people ), began filling this ideological void.
He operated the plantation using leased convict labor, which essentially amounted to slavery, throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The principle of election continued in effect throughout the nearly two centuries of the Jagiellon Dynasty, although just like in the Piast times, it actually amounted to mere confirmation of the incoming heir.
Eventually, the bank established over 300 branches throughout the country ; its assets amounted to 10 % of the nation's banking assets and handled over one million seven hundred thousand bank accounts.

amounted and Reich
This hostility, which amounted to a vendetta, was based, not so much upon Erzberger's foreign policy — his negotiation of the Armistice terms and the decisive influence which he exercised in securing the acceptance of the Treaty of Versailles — as upon his financial policy both as finance minister in 1919 and as the Democratic Catholic supporter and, it was said, the political adviser of the Catholic Chancellor of the Reich, Joseph Wirth, in the preparation in the summer of 1921 of a fresh scheme of taxation designed to impose new burdens upon capital and upon the prosperous landed interest.

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) has amounted to about one third of those total revenue requirements which the carload freight business is supposed to be called upon to meet.
It hadn't amounted to anything.
However well chosen and cleverly arranged, such memorabilia unfortunately amounted to more of an interruption than an auxiliary to the evening's main business, which ( considering the talent at hand ) should probably have been the gathering of fresh samples of the Chicago style.
It is worth mentioning that the Nepōhualtzintzin amounted to the rank from 10 to the 18 in floating point, which calculated stellar as well as infinitesimal amounts with absolute precision, meant that no round off was allowed, when translated into modern computer arithmetic.
In March 2006, the trade volume between the two countries amounted to $ 400 million.
In 2008, the world's total arable land amounted to 13, 805, 153 km², whereas 48, 836, 976 km² was classified as " agricultural land.
He had his country houses and fisheries, and when he travelled to attend parliament his retinue amounted to upwards of 100 persons.
Citizen families may have amounted to 100, 000 people and out of these some 30, 000 will have been the adult male citizens entitled to vote in the assembly.
Carnegie's share of this amounted to $ 225, 639, 000 ( presently, $), which was paid to Carnegie in the form of 5 %, 50-year gold bonds.
The stipend amounted to three hundred ducats ( about 60 pounds per annum ), and was limited to three years.
Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.
Apart from contributions to the 1923 Haus am Horn, student architectural work amounted to un-built projects, interior finishes, and craft work like cabinets, chairs and pottery.
Its total revenue amounted to 30, 000 akce.
Such numbers may have amounted to a substantial proportion, if not all, of the Peucini Bastarnae: Victor claims that the Carpi resettled in Pannonia by Diocletian at the same time, together with those previously transferred by Aurelian, amounted to the entire Carpi tribe.
The death toll amounted to about 170 knights of the defeated party, and many thousands of foot soldiers on either side.
A contract was negotiated with Mutual that amounted to $ 670, 000 a year, making Chaplin — at 26 years old — one of the highest paid people in the world.

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