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Without it, no
amount
of accountability, justice, unity, or clarity will shift the populist tide.
To be sure, reports that Syria’s air force could deploy the prepared munitions within two hours of receiving the order may
amount
to little more than a bluff designed to deter Western support for rebel groups.
Of the troika that currently governs Pakistan – the president, the prime minister, and the chief of staff of the army – it is the prime minister who carries the least
amount
of authority.
Though most business start-ups will never
amount
to much, each little company is an experiment, and a great deal of experimentation is necessary to produce the occasional firm that can transform a nation’s economy – or even rise to international significance.
Counting capital gains, Americans have profited to the tune of $300 billion to $400 billion annually in many recent years – an
amount
roughly equivalent to the entire US military budget.
The range of usable territory – the spectrum – is administered by governments as though it were real estate, and is broken up according to wavelength, with an
amount
apportioned for cell phones, other bits for military pilots, and so on.
This doesn’t
amount
to a conversion to liberal principles or a substitution of Europe for the ideals of the left and of socialism.
The regulators’ call to the ISDA for voluntary action will not
amount
to much if it is just a request to the derivatives industry to act against its own financial interests.
This is understandable: private investment firms spend an enormous
amount
on marketing and salaries.
A second is the Bush administration’s ideological hostility to the modest
amount
of wealth redistribution implied by the public system.
Re-thinking Foreign AidCAMBRIDGE: Rich countries of the world give a considerable
amount
of foreign assistance to poorer countries every year, around $60 billion in net assistance.
For example, a considerable
amount
of aid is simply payments to domestic firms in the rich countries to sell unneeded products to the poorer countries.
Again, the
amount
of scientific research to study tropical agricultural is a tiny fraction of the research expenditures to study "rich-country" agriculture in the temperate climate.
The
amount
of nitrogen and sulfur circulating through the Earth system has doubled.
But the bubble was really manufactured by China's communist rulers over a decade earlier on the advice of local property magnates, who wanted to limit the
amount
of land British colonials were permitted to sell.
He then predicted that the future would
amount
to a prolongation of the past and present, characterized by “violent politics and violent political changes” and by “social distribution, not growth.”
If the success of the company’s diesel-powered vehicles was due in part to fraudulent efforts to conceal the
amount
of harmful pollutants they emitted, will similar revelations at other companies call into questions the country’s transformation from “the sick man of Europe” to an export-driven economic powerhouse?
In Latin America and the Caribbean, high tech exports
amount
to 12% of manufactured exports.
What all such schemes
amount
to is piling one lot of bonds on top of another in an attempt to square the circle of Greece’s inability to pay, and to minimize the losses faced by its creditors – mostly European banks.
But the theory of usury survived in the view that it was morally wrong to extract some additional
amount
that was made feasible by the borrower’s weak bargaining position or extreme need.
That money, together with the pledges of EU member states, represents more than 80% of the total
amount
committed to support Uganda’s refugee programs.
They recognized the dramatic implications that even this
amount
of warming would have for sea levels, freshwater supplies, agriculture, extreme weather events, public health, and the planet’s flora and fauna.
There is no doubt that Holland spends a substantial
amount
of money on caring for old people.
The assumption here – unstated and highly questionable – is that the US will be able to sell an unlimited
amount
of government debt at low interest rates for the foreseeable future.
In the US alone, the opportunity cost of failing to improve education would
amount
to $1.7 trillion by 2030.
According to data released by the China Electricity Council, the
amount
of power that China generated from fossil fuels in 2014 decreased by 0.7% year on year, the first drop in recent memory.
No
amount
of American intervention will turn the tide against bigotry and ignorance.
The purchases in Africa alone
amount
to an area of agricultural land the size of Kenya.
The bicycle producer could not get the
amount
of steel needed at the official price.
I believe that this
amount
could be at least doubled and assured for a longer time span.
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