Sentence examples for as a tally from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ramsay, like Leslie Stephen, sees poetry as didacticism, conversation as winning points, and life as a tally of accomplishments.

The settlers orchestrate reprisals with the blitheness of a country house party out to bag some game; reference is made to the ghoulish practice of severing corpses' hands "as a tally".

There's something doubly, triply impersonal about the Oscars, as a tally of positioned responses, but calculated impersonality of the awards makes them, therefore, all the more representative of trends and currents (even if it takes some doing to tease out those trends).

Far more than securing a byline or credit or kudos, she had borne witness — and paid the same grisly price as a tally of others who have fallen during the Arab Spring, to bombs, bullets or, in the case of Anthony Shadid of The New York Times, an asthma attack that felled him as he headed out from Syria after a clandestine visit along a smugglers' trail.

Depending on how your prospective chair likes to do business, your start-up package may be offered as a lump sum or as a tally of individual items such as equipment, staff, reagents and so on.

British Winter Olympic success is as rare as a snowball in summer - as a tally of 24 medals in 22 Games so far attests - but Britons do excel at skeleton, where sliders hurtle head-first down an ice track on a sled at speeds in excess of 80mph.

"We are looking for three points and to get as big a tally as we can".

"Independent Women Part 1": If you pay for your own shoes, you are more likely to judge your relationship on its own merits rather than as a tallying of goods exchanged.

As Foote points out, it can also mean a smaller stick, such as a tally-stick or wooden token used by merchants, and, according to Jesch, it can also mean the "highest and narrowest part" of a ship's stem.

Snipes, a Democrat who was first appointed to her post in 2003 by then Governor Jeb Bush, is taking fire from GOP leaders for her office's slow-as-a-turtle vote tallying that chipped away at the narrow margins Scott, DeSantis, and Caldwell held over their opponents at the end of Election Day.

And that did not include the six players already on the season-ending injured list, a tally as high as any team in the league.