Sentence examples for amount at issue from inspiring English sources

The health bill exceeds the president's spending allotment by about $10 billion — almost half of the amount at issue.

He declined to give the exact amount at issue but said he had put it all into cash a few weeks before MF Global collapsed.

Financially speaking, mistake No. 2 was plowing ahead with litigation despite Mr. Baker's warning that the cost could rapidly outstrip the amount at issue.

"While the trial is obviously an important event for us," he said, "our share of the amount at issue in the case represents less than 2percentt of our total capital".

1973: Spiro Agnew resigns the vice presidency and pleads no contest to the charge of failing to report income; he gets three years' probation and a $10,000 fine (roughly one-third of the amount at issue).

In his recent sentencing opinion, Judge Young explained that his discretion was limited by the jury's finding once the government agreed that the court should ask the jury to decide the cocaine amount at issue as "a factual question central to the defendant's culpability".

Compared with the Pentagon's overall budget, the amounts at issue here are minuscule.

Under current law, federal courts may hear cases between residents of different states only if federal law is involved or if the amounts at issue exceed $75,000 for each plaintiff.

"I think they have also been surprised by the somewhat pedestrian nature of the theft charges," Mr. Levy said, "both the amounts at issue, which are relatively small, and the circumstances under which she is alleged to have stolen them".

Mr Oettinger said the amount of gas delivered from Gazprom to Ukraine's Naftogaz state gas firm was "undisputed" but the price was still "at issue".

I choose "at issue" deliberately.