Sentence examples for comparable sums from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday, Gov. George E. Pataki proposed that the state assist the victims' families by either paying for public universities in the state or giving comparable sums for expenses at private campuses in the state.

Comparable sums spent on sales and marketing particularly on direct-to-consumer advertising in America are lambasted for corrupting doctors and creating demand on the back of fancy publicity rather than legitimate medical need or product superiority.

Even individual companies such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield (which also spent $4.1 million in the first quarter) are throwing comparable sums on lobbying.

In the Wall Street Journal, Jennifer Maloney reported that an upgrade of stacks at the Library of Congress has cost tens of millions of dollars, a comparable sum.

Its beleaguered president, Sepp Blatter, doled out $100m after protests rocked Brazil during the 2013 Confederations Cup – and a comparable sum to South Africa after the 2010 World Cup.

"If we say Turkey has indeed spent €7bn over the past few years, then in turn, that would mean the EU should also shoulder a comparable sum," she said at the close of the talks.

Dr Ghada Karmi London Missing from your report (£7bn pledged to provide humanitarian aid for Syrians, 5 February) is any mention of the very pertinent fact the west and their allies have spent a comparable sum of money escalating the war that has created the humanitarian crisis in the first place.

As we speculated yesterday, founder Max Levchin did the best out of the sale, making a comparable sum to the one he made from PayPal – proving once again the value of investing in your own idea.

In 2008, after Barack Obama gained the nomination, Nemazee raised a comparable sum for him.

Interestingly, reaction with either complex generated comparable summed intensities of mono-, di- and trimethylated H3-K27, suggesthat that both complexes are comparably efficient in generating the different methylated states of H3-K27.

I had earlier wondered if Congress had allocated sums comparable to its expansive expenditures on Defense facilities to build, say, a language institute.