Sentence examples for by a like amount from inspiring English sources

"What good is giving our residents an energy tax cut, and then turn around later and raise their property taxes by a like amount?" he said.

Morningstar found 14 equity funds based in the United States that have commission costs of 2 to 6 percent of net assets, thus reducing investor returns by a like amount.

It enriches traders, hedge fund operators and various middlemen, and it impoverishes investors by a like amount.

If it falls by a like amount, your investment will be wiped out and your account subject to a margin call.

This year employees can add up to $16,500 in wages ($22,000 for those 50 and over) in a 401(k) account that will reduce taxable income by a like amount.

That's because rather than providing you with a permanent free lunch, the depreciation deductions have reduced your "cost basis" in the property and increased by a like amount the gain on which you're liable for taxes.

Here, with greater naturalness, one hopes, in a hall perhaps better suited to the size of his voice and to the repertory, he presents more songs by Schubert, interspersed with a like amount by Hanns Eisler.

An initial investment of $10,000 in the average equity fund in 1984 would have grown to $57,000 by late 1999, while a like amount invested in a fund tracking the Wilshire 5000 index would have grown to $100,000.

So to prove that it had not stooped to printing money, the bank promised to offset the bond purchases, which totaled 26.5 billion euros ($32.6 billion as of May 24, the most recent data available), by taking in a like amount in short-term deposits from banks.

Because pretty much every journalist and pundit fervently believes that this is, indeed, the natural order of things, traditional media has rewarded Drudge's unctuous perspicacity by giving him a like amount of coverage.

"We have 26,000 members and we probably have a like amount of retirees there," Mr. McEntee said by telephone.