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Indeed, China’s total annual imports
amount
to roughly $1.4 trillion, or nearly 40% of GDP.
The receipts for all purchases subject to VAT would show the
amount
paid to the EU, making citizens aware of their contribution, which would be transferred automatically to Union accounts and would no longer be shown on national budgets.
The US military has provided a particularly large
amount
of funding to university researchers in computer security and encryption.
That, not the
amount
of authority he wields today, is his primary concern.
Both
amount
to pressing challenges, though migration may be the most urgent issue, given the surge in recent years that has overwhelmed existing frameworks.
Many hoped that the molecular revolution would
amount
to more streetlights for drug discovery.
By 2006 (the peak of the US housing bubble), foreign official institutions held about one-third of the stock of US Treasuries outstanding, approximately twice the
amount
held by the Fed.
Industrial countries thus had to export double, namely ten cars for the same
amount
of imports of raw materials.
Moreover, whalers do not want to use a large
amount
of explosive, because that would blow the whale to pieces, while the whole point is to recover valuable oil or flesh.
But no
amount
of science can tell us whether or not to kill whales.
The same can be said of various forms of hunting in other countries, not to mention the vast
amount
of animal suffering caused by factory farms.
Though the budget would provide a broad sprinkling of cash, it does not
amount
to a well-focused stimulus effort.
But that does not
amount
to anything close to a shared identity.
Spending a large
amount
of money up front would be far more effective than spending the same
amount
over several years.
In the long run, this is more effective than spending the same
amount
of money in yearly installments.
As countries increase their national biofuel targets, a huge
amount
of additional land will have to be cultivated, requiring an enormous quantity of water.
For a decade or so, many in the US have claimed that China’s categorization as a developing country, and the resulting favorable treatment it enjoys at the WTO, do not reflect the true strength of an economy whose goods exports
amount
to $2 trillion, or 11% of world trade.
It is estimated that at least €30 billion per year will be needed for a number of years, and the benefits of “surge funding” (spending a large
amount
of money up front, rather than the same
amount
over several years) are enormous.
Even a relatively small
amount
of material such as cobalt-60 – used in radiotherapy – could cause serious harm if combined with conventional explosives in a so-called dirty bomb (or otherwise deliberately used to expose the public to dangerous radiation).
Likewise, synthetic biology will be possible before too long, with scientists using the huge
amount
of increasingly available and inexpensive genetic data to design DNA from scratch – a practice that has applications in medicine, agriculture, and even biofuel production.
But no
amount
of lofty rhetoric can substitute for the reforms outlined here – or obviate the need for them.
But, if that is true, we have yet to determine at what point reforestation becomes a better investment than improving sanitation, let alone increases the returns of other health interventions by the highest possible
amount.
New technologies will have reduced the
amount
of energy needed to power buildings and vehicles.
These calculations indicate that a Blueprints world with CO2 capture and storage results in the least
amount
of climate change, provided emissions of other major manmade greenhouse gases are similarly reduced.
For example, many governments have implemented regulations for banks and insurance companies that increase the
amount
of government debt that they own.
This approach, if overused, can
amount
to borrowing future demand; in that case, it is clearly unsustainable.
But it must go further, demanding that any treaty should include a provision for surveillance and sanctions; that a country’s right to veto intervention be limited according to the
amount
of time that has passed and the issue at stake; and that measures to protect populations be decided upon by majority vote.
If every increase in the after-tax wage rate gave a permanent boost to the
amount
of labor supplied, we reasoned, steeply rising after-tax wages since the mid-nineteenth century would have brought an extraordinary increase in the length of the workweek and in retirement ages.
What matters for the
amount
of labor supplied is the after-tax wage rate relative to income from wealth.
China’s exports to the US account for only 4% of its GDP, and its imports from the US
amount
to just 1% of GDP.
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