Sentence examples for jobs amount from inspiring English sources

Stephen Turner, the sequencing company's founder, says that both of Schadt's jobs amount to trying to understand "the grammar of genetics".

In fact, coal mining jobs amount to only about 2percentt of employment in the central Appalachian region; the percentage is only slightly higher if you consider related employment.

For Texas to give up more than $250 million in tax revenues in exchange for 2,500 jobs amounts to about $100,000 per job.

Two churches have launched a blistering attack on the Government for using hunger as a punishment for people claiming unemployment benefit, warning that using benefit sanctions to reprimand claimants who miss meetings or fail to look for jobs amounts to a policy of "deliberate destitution".

The high bar for suing prosecutors for the actions they take in the course of their jobs amounts to near immunity.

And selling books is ultimately what our job amounts to.

The bets are just as uncertain in both fields, but the sums are vastly larger in his current job, amounts that seem to stagger even him.

Clarke's repair job amounts to a fundamental rethink, as evidenced by the hefty 8.3% decline, to £2.27bn, in UK trading profits.

Usually, his job amounted to what he likes to call a Sisyphean task, because it was hard for him to apply himself to the work with the necessary stick-to-itiveness and zeal.

A few months later, acting on complaints from agents, the equal opportunity agency declared that requiring an employee to sign away rights to keep a job amounted to "unlawful retaliation".

But that is what his job amounts to in this strange Washington autumn, when a man who oversees the federal government's $2.3 trillion annual budget is spending huge portions of his time arm-twisting Congress into coming up with the $87 billion that President Bush wants over the next year for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.