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Medical kits the size of a thumbnail can measure a million different biological factors on an individual with an infinitesimal
amount
of blood.
No
amount
of “transformation” or “partnerships” or anything else will matter much if NATO fails for the first time in its history – even if that failure is not of its own making.
All told, North Korea’s “opening” will most likely
amount
to much less than meets the eye.
Some forms of authoritarian government can leave a certain
amount
of room for economic and other freedoms, and thus might be easier to live with than illiberal democratic populism.
No
amount
of finessing of the Cyprus question will dispose of the much larger question of Turkey's relationship to Europe.
But that does not mean that today’s tensions
amount
to a sequel.
Thanks to generous US aid --Taiwan was for several decades second only to Israel in the
amount
of American aid received --Taiwan could send its best university students, especially engineers, to study abroad.
Greece asked its fellow European Union members for help, and they have obliged with an enormous
amount
of aid.
One reason that we can afford to increase the
amount
of aid we give is that the
amount
we are giving now is insignificant in comparison to what we spend on other things.
For example, an increase in direct taxes, such as income tax, can reduce consumption by twice as much as energy and carbon taxes that raise the same
amount
of revenue.
In terms of the effect on GDP and jobs, the cost of increasing revenue from this source would be as much as one-third less than that of raising the same
amount
via income taxes or VAT.
Moreover, according to iResearch, mobile payments in China already
amount
to $5.5 trillion, roughly 50 times that of the US.
In no sense do these people
amount
to a mass movement.
Libya was not a smoothly operating country before the civil war started six months ago; today, it is thoroughly broken and will require an enormous
amount
of rebuilding – post-conflict operations, or “stability ops,” to use the current jargon.
The sheer
amount
of weaponry strewn around the country will probably pose the greatest challenge to its prospects as a successful state with an effective government.
This may not
amount
to much in practice, but the language in this section is much less tepid than elsewhere.
The effort that will receive the greatest
amount
of attention is bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS).
The expansion of the state’s control of the Russian economy has been driven by a proliferation of state-owned corporations, whose gross liabilities now
amount
to 150% of GDP.
Once students are online, there is no limit to what they can do with the vast
amount
of information available to them or how they will collaborate with and learn from one another.
“The administration plans over a number of years to put a substantial
amount
of money into agricultural development,” Obama’s choice for Secretary of State for African Affairs, Johnnie Carson, said in advance of the president’s trip.
While my words were met with polite nods and plenty of questions, few of the Bosnians to whom I spoke seemed to believe that the ICTY would actually
amount
to anything.
Critics outside Bosnia expressed similar skepticism, declaring that the ICTY would
amount
to nothing but a fig leaf to cover up inaction in the face of horrific crimes.
Should a historical figure be judged by the
amount
of blood on his hands?
The adjustments needed
amount
to a sizeable deficit-to-balance swing of around $700 billion in the US current account, or nearly 5% of US GNP.
China’s trade surplus might shrink by half of that
amount
(with cuts in trade surpluses also spread over other global regions), meaning a shift in Chinese GNP toward internal demand and away from net exports equal to between 5% and 10% of China’s GNP.
Unfortunately, early anecdotal evidence suggests that these safeguards may ultimately slow down traffic by roughly the same
amount
of time that the project was meant to speed it up!
No one knows precisely the Mexican drug cartels’ annual profits, but they certainly
amount
to billions of dollars.
But when Bernal observed the crystals in a light microscope, he noticed that as the large
amount
of water in the crystal lattice evaporated, they became disordered.
So despite the enormous
amount
of excellent data that was collected, the solution remained tantalizingly out of reach.
But doubling US foreign aid involves a modest
amount
of money, compared to what will be saved by pulling out of Iraq.
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