Sentence examples for like amounts from inspiring English sources

Turning down a higher-paying opportunity in a field you don't really like amounts to calling your own bluff.

The county has also passed legislation providing $15 million for the "purchase of property that has been identified, and we'll flip it back to the builder for like amounts," Mr. Levy said.

"Based on those differences and the resulting harms to society, we believe that crack cocaine is an especially dangerous drug, and its traffickers should be subject to significantly higher penalties than traffickers of like amounts of powder".

While the rest of the market rallied in the last year, the share prices of American producers have tumbled, although not by like amounts.

The specific goal of this competition, which may be followed by future prize competitions in like amounts for comparable goals, will be the development of a community- or household-scale water treatment system to remove arsenic from the contaminated groundwater found in many developing countries.

Mr. Dinh said it was better to compare the sentences for like amounts of crack and powdered cocaine.

Australia has promised $385m in aid and a like amount in discounted loans.

Astor left $60 million at her personal disposal and a like amount for the foundation.

Braddock was fined a like amount and forfeited the $5,000 bond he had posted.

Applied broadly, that would mean the biggest chunk of the industry might take a price hit of a like amount.

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