Sentence examples for increased the sums from inspiring English sources

They have expanded disclosure requirements to reveal "dark money" and, much to the dismay of reform advocates, increased the sums that political candidates can raise for their own campaigns.

Congress increased the sum to $34 million.

This year, President Bush asked for $1 billion more for the program and House appropriators increased the sum to $1.4 billion.

It is one of those rare films that contribute to the sum of human happiness: it certainly increased the sum of my happiness.

He increased the sum borrowed to cover, besides the initial purchase price of £445,000, both the initial purchase costs, and an additional £10,000 towards the cost of repairs to the property.

Cecil Chao later increased the sum to $130m but withdrew the offer earlier this year at the request of his daughter, Gigi, who asked her father to treat her and her partner as a "normal, dignified human being".

Whatever one thought of the value of rotating-watch boxes, there was no denying that adding this truffle oil emulsion to the risotto increased the sum of human happiness.

He said BP had been sponsoring the arts for more than 25 years, adding: "They have not significantly increased the sum as a result of poor publicity that they have had elsewhere, it has been a consistent practice to put large sums of money into the arts and other causes … they put a large sum of money into the London Olympics for instance".

Trinity Mirror last year increased the sum it has set aside to deal with phone hacking claims from £4m to £12m but critics argue its final bill from the scandal will be significantly higher.

This further increased the sum of ESVs to $107.01 ×1044 in 1987.

For this purpose, we used quartiles of metabolite concentration; values in the lowest quartile did not contribute to the sum, whereas higher values increased the sum one unit per quartile.