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sum and spent
Less than half the sum has been spent, since the Interama board pinched pennies during that period of painstaking negotiations.
Emilio spent a very large sum of money because of the land's great location.
Vouchers would be government funded and could be redeemed for " a specified maximum sum per child per years if spent on approved educational services ".
All have to be funded by government and with the strictest equality ( subarticle 7 ); until recently law stated that this equality was nominal, meaning that if a municipality spent a certain sum per student in public schools, exactly the same sum had to be spent in its special schools.
" She was looking for a grand occasion on the lines of the Field of Cloth of Gold, and spent a huge sum in preparation.
The U. S. government is estimated to have spent about $ 20, 000, 000 on the war, at the time an astronomical sum, and equal to $ today.
While most of this sum would have been spent on the gatehouse, some may have been used to make alterations to the top storey of the keep.
It transpired that the man had been contracted by another firm to clear the site, had been advanced a sum for hire of plant, and had spent three weeks clearing the site.
Scholars estimate the U. S. government spent about $ 40, 000, 000 on the war, at the time a huge sum.
In the New York Times newspaper article “ The Big City: Rich and Poor, Consumed by Consuming ” ( 1998 ), to remedy the social and psychological malaise that is conspicuous consumption, Frank proposed eliminating the personal income tax, and replacing it with a progressive tax upon the yearly sum of discretionary income spent on consumption of goods and services.
For Discoverer, the Air Force and ARPA spent a combined sum of US $ 132. 3 million in FY1959 ( inflation adjusted US $ billion in ) and US $ 101. 2 million in FY1960 ( inflation adjusted US $ billion in ).
When work finally ceased around 1330 a total of £ 15, 000 had been spent, a huge sum for the period, but the castle remained incomplete.
This work finally halted in 1330 with the castle still not built to its intended height ; by the end of the project, £ 15, 000 had been spent, a colossal sum for the period.
This sum, however, was not well spent: in 1832 the seat was one of those identified in the Reform Act for correction of such malpractices and he was thrown out again.
In the contest for speaker of the Riksdag ( Lantmarskalk ) the leaders of the two parties were again pitted against each other, when the verdict of the last Diet was exactly reversed, von Fersen defeating Rudbeck by 234, though Russia spent no less a sum than 90, 000 Riksdaler to secure the election of the latter.
This practice was necessitated by the fact that over £ 350, 000 — an enormous sum at the time — was eventually spent on the enterprise.
Example: A father promised a house to his son who took possession and spent a large sum of money improving the property, but the father never actually transferred the house to the son.
On the pyramid it is declared in Egyptian writing how much was spent on radishes and onions and leeks for the workmen, and if I remember correctly what the interpreter said while reading this inscription for me, a sum of 1600 silver talents was spent.
Press and public interest increased with Cook's revelations that he had paid a large sum of money to Bianchi in the hopes of forestalling a lawsuit, and had spent thousands of dollars each month on internet pornography.
He spent a large sum of money over this work, and received 43, 000 acres ( 174 km² ) of land ; but the project involved him in great difficulties.

sum and for
If she wanted to borrow any sum of money in expecting the arrangements of Congress, it would not become a stranger, unknown to her, to offer himself for that purpose.
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.
Why should Congress even consider allowing such a sum for that which can give no protection??
Determine the sum of the products obtained in item 8 above, for all the States.
Determine the ratio that the amount being allotted is to the sum of the products for all the States.
( Each State's unadjusted allotment for any fiscal year, which exceeds its minimum allotment described in item 13 below by a percentage greater than one and one-half times the percentage by which the sum being allotted exceeds $23,000,000, must be reduced by the amount of the excess.
In sum, I look for another good year for the electronics industry in 1961, with total sales increasing about 7% to $10.8 billion, despite the uncertainties in the business outlook generally.
If ( remember this is an assumption ) the minimal polynomial for T decomposes Af where Af are distinct elements of F, then we shall show that the space V is the direct sum of the null spaces of Af.
For example, the monthly bill of a residential consumer might be the sum of a $1 customer charge, a $5 charge for 250 kilowatt-hours of energy at
These theoretical relationships are more clearly illustrated in Fig. 7 and their sum can be seen to correlate in form with practical measurements made with the Hesiometer as illustrated in the first portion of Fig. 5 for the cutting mechanism.
She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.
According to Stacy, she told him she was planning to remarry and she wanted him to ask Forbes for the lump sum.
He further proposed grants of an unspecified sum for experimental hospitals.
The mean is the only single number for which the residuals defined this way sum to zero.
* If it is required to use a single number X as an estimate for the value of numbers, then the arithmetic mean does this best, in the sense of minimizing the sum of squares ( x < sub > i </ sub > − X )< sup > 2 </ sup > of the residuals.
The number of degrees of freedom DF can be partitioned in a similar way: one of these components ( that for error ) specifies a chi-squared distribution which describes the associated sum of squares, while the same is true for " treatments " if there is no treatment effect.
( The reason for the term " colloquially ", is that the sum or product of a " sequence " of cardinals cannot be defined without some aspect of the axiom of choice.
Anarcho-capitalists argue for a society based on the voluntary trade of private property and services ( in sum, all relationships not caused by threats or violence, including exchanges of money, consumer goods, land, and capital goods ) in order to minimize conflict while maximizing individual liberty and prosperity.
It turns out that a more suitable quantity for updating is the sum of squares of differences from the ( current ) mean,, here denoted:
Therefore no complete system, i. e. including the electromagnetic modes, can have negative temperatures, since there is no highest energy state, so that the sum of the probabilities of the states would diverge for negative temperatures.

sum and foreign
The figure shows how Hawala works: ( 1 ) A customer ( A, left-hand side ) approaches a hawala broker ( X ) in one city and gives a sum of money ( red arrow ) that is to be transferred to a recipient ( B, right-hand side ) in another, usually foreign, city.
In October of the same year, Louis XVIII ’ s foreign minister, the Duc de Richelieu, succeeded in convincing the powers to withdraw their armies early, in exchange for a sum of over 200 million francs.
Nonetheless, the gatehouse was enhanced by Rubidge and the entire property purchased outright in 1868 for the sum of $ 82, 000, after which the house became the social centre of Ottawa — even Canada — hosting foreign visitors ( the first being Grand Duke Alexis, son of Tsar Alexander II ), investitures, swearing-in ceremonies, balls, dinners, garden parties, children's parties, and theatrical productions in the ballroom, in which members of the household and viceregal family would participate.
The term " balance of payments " often refers to this sum: a country's balance of payments is said to be in surplus ( equivalently, the balance of payments is positive ) by a certain amount if sources of funds ( such as export goods sold and bonds sold ) exceed uses of funds ( such as paying for imported goods and paying for foreign bonds purchased ) by that amount.
It is the sum of the balance of trade ( net earnings on exports minus payments for imports ), factor income ( earnings on foreign investments minus payments made to foreign investors ) and cash transfers.
To maintain the same exchange rate if there is increased demand, the central bank can issue more of the domestic currency and purchase the foreign currency, which will increase the sum of foreign reserves.
The report chronicled gruesome details of the events in 1953: how, by spending a meager sum of $ 1 million, the CIA " stirred up considerable unrest in Iran, giving Iranians a clear choice between instability and supporting the shah "; how it brought " the largest mobs " into the street ; how it " began disseminating ' gray propaganda ' passing out anti-Mossadegh cartoons in the streets and planting unflattering articles in local press "; how the CIA's " Iranian operatives pretending to be Communists threatened Muslim leaders with ' savage punishment if they opposed Mossadegh '"; how the " house of at least one prominent Muslim was bombed by CIA agents posing as Communists "; how the CIA tried to " orchestrate a call for a holy war against Communism "; how on August 19 " a journalist who was one of the agency's most important Iranian agents led a crowd toward Parliament, inciting people to set fire to the offices of a newspaper owned by Dr. Mossadegh's foreign minister "; how American agents swung " security forces to the side of the demonstrators "; how the shah's disbanded " Imperial Guard seized trucks and drove through the street "; how by " 10: 15 there were pro-shah truckloads of military personnel at all main squares "; how the " pro-shah speakers went on the air, broadcasting the coups ' success and reading royal decrees "; how at the US embassy, " CIA officers were elated, and Mr. Roosevelt got General Zahedi out of hiding " and found him a tank that " drove him to the radio station, where he spoke to the nation "; and, finally, how " Dr. Mossadegh and other government officials were rounded up, while officers supporting General Zahedi placed ' unknown supports of TP-Ajax ' in command of all units of Tehran garrison.
Since, total domestic spendings is a sum of spending on domestic as well as foreign goods and services, we can say that,
The sum of domestic spending on foreign goods and services ( Cf + I f + G f ) is expenditure on imports ( IM ).
DA argued that such an outlandish diplomatic move would help Macedonia attract significant foreign investment from Taiwan-with even a sum of US $ 1 billion being mentioned by Tupurkovski.
A. S. Roma successfully bid £ 15, 000 for him, a large sum in those days, but foreign exchange regulations stopped the transfer.
Comprehensive income is the sum of net income and other items that must bypass the income statement because they have not been realized, including items like an unrealized holding gain or loss from available for sale securities and foreign currency translation gains or losses.
It is believed that Samuel Swartwout's story is the origin of the term " Swartwouted out ", which has since come to define the embezzlement of a large sum of money from the United States government and subsequent escape to a foreign nation to escape punishment.

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