At its most extreme the ban's absurdity was exposed on the BBC comedy mock-news show The Day Today when Steve Coogan, playing a Sinn Féin spokesman, sucked in helium before an interview in order "to subtract credibility from his statements".
Subtract the roughly 150 GT we've already burned since then and that leaves about 850 GT for all sources of CO2.
Multiplied by a huge user base, with only modest running costs to subtract, that could provide a handsome profit.For corporate messaging services, there is even more potential for charging such recurring fees, since businesses are already used to paying annual licensing and maintenance charges for the e-mail systems and other software that these services aim to replace.
Two further refinements were necessary: to work out the third dimension distance from Earth and to subtract the effect of visible matter in order to be left with the distribution of dark matter pure and simple.The trick they used to perform the first refinement was a piece of basic optics.
Auntie needs to learn how to subtract, as well as how to add.
The firemen are demanding a 40% pay hike or else.In this section Of strikes and rumours of strikes Subtract rows, add sex Learning the hard way Bad faith His own man Getting stuffed Transfer or be damned Pork on the menu ReprintsAll of which has provoked comparisons with the "winter of discontent" of 1979, which helped to destroy the last Labour government and brought in Margaret Thatcher.
But it does not make such a big contribution to the rest of the world's growth: whatever its growing imports add to the GDP of its trading partners, its burgeoning exports tend to subtract.
When you subtract the cost of getting into extra accidents, the wage may not be as high as it seems.
Novelty names like these are the typographical equivalents of wearing a rotating bow-tie: they attract attention but subtract credibility.
Subtract these and public funds that they must repay, and banks have little capital left.Admitting that banks need help is one thing; acting swiftly to restore confidence in them quite another.
