Sentence examples for in such quantities as from inspiring English sources

But it may have been found, for all that we know, that the seed of Johnson grass is dropped from the cars in such quantities as to cause special trouble.

It was not exactly generosity that inspired the gift: if the stock had gone to the Ford children, they would have owed so much in taxes — more than three hundred million dollars — that, in order to pay, they would have had to sell stock in such quantities as to lose control of the company to the public.

Denny Rehberg (R-MT) and signed into law by President Obama on Dec. 14, 2010, authorizes the Treasury secretary to mint $25 palladium coins "in such quantities as the Secretary may determine to be appropriate to meet demand". So theoretically, Geithner could issue 80 billion $25 palladium coins, collectively worth $2 trillion, and deposit them in a similar manner.

The only distinction suggested in support of the ordinance is that the seed of Johnson grass may be dropped from the cars in such quantities as to cause special trouble; but there is not only no evidence of such fact, but it is highly improbable that the seed of a noxious grass of this kind would be carried upon the cars at all.

"crude oil, principal crude oil derivatives and products, and related products derived from natural gas and coal tar are being imported into the United States in such quantities as to threaten to impair the national security (and) the foregoing products are being imported into the United States under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security". App.

They are made in such quantities as to offer value no other product can duplicate, and we are addicted to them.

Under the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, the United States is to provide Taiwan only with defensive weapons "in such quantity as may be necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability".

…The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole Earth, in such quantity as he might see fit, and reasonably expect their early delivery upon his doorstep .Keynes worried, correctly, that the vindictive Treaty of Versailles would further fragment the damaged global economic system.

In August 1914, "[t]he inhabitant of London," he wrote, "could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth, in such quantity as he might see fit, and reasonably expect their early delivery upon his doorstep".

In August 1914, "[t]he inhabitant of London," he wrote, "could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth, in such quantity as he might see fit, and reasonably expect their early delivery upon his doorstep". Replace the telephone with an internet connection and it sounds like Keynes is talking about Amazon.

These technological extensions of ourselves numb and depersonalize us, while constantly hawking a junk diet of feel-good affirmation — the smiley face, the selfie, the "like". Bones factor heavily in these drawings, bones in such quantity as to suggest a mass extinction of some sort.