One strategy to prevent running out of money in old age is to buy an annuity, which gives the annuity seller a specified amount in return for a predetermined monthly payment for life.
During the home-buying process, the buyer will deposit a specified amount in an escrow account that the seller can't touch until the terms of the contract, such as passing an inspection, have been fulfilled and the sale is completed.
The individual or organization commissioning the portrait will agree to pay the artist a specified amount, usually in installments (for instance, one-third at the signing of the agreement, one-third after the maquette has been approved and one-third when the work is completed and before being shipped).
You have a specified amount of time in which to do so, and the contents of the game usually consist of a series of riddles, puzzles, and a fuckload of locks.
You have a specified amount of time in which to do this, and the contents of the game usually consist of a series of riddles, puzzles, and a fuckload of locks.
Under S.E.C. regulations, insiders can sell only a specified amount of stock based, in part, on its average trading volume in previous weeks.
Hence the kilogram might be redefined as whatever mass can be suspended by the magnetic force when a specified amount of current flows in the coil.The trouble is that the relationship between current and force depends on lots of messy things—such as the details of the magnetic field and the geometry of the coil which cannot be controlled very well.
We imposed the selection criterion that Escherichia coli cells expressing the P450 had to yield lysate with enough active enzyme to hydroxylate a specified amount of 12-pNCA in 40 min. This criterion roughly corresponds to the case in which an enzyme must catalyze a biochemically relevant reaction at some minimal level in order for its host to survive.
In another innovation, countries with high debt that resist reducing it by a specified amount may also be fined in a similar way.
But Kickstarter does require the creators to meet a set financing goal in a specified amount of time or they will not receive any of the money their backers have pledged.
In the earliest stories, Bertie often rewards Jeeves by giving him cash, sometimes in a specified amount, but as ministration and recompense enter a psychological realm, this sort of crass transaction vanishes.
