Sentence examples for monetary sums from inspiring English sources

I think his method of translating 19th-century monetary sums into modern dollars sometimes wildly overestimates the current value.

Some formats of question seek to avoid these problems by offering choice among packages, each of which offers different levels of several environmental attributes and different monetary sums: this diminishes the environment-versus-money polarisation, and enables exploration of which attributes are actually valued.

Our patient-specific "real world" data validate these model based assumptions, even though the exact monetary sums differ.

Wills remain important in the civil-law systems, however, both because the disposable share of the estate may amount to a large monetary sum and because the statutory share of the heirs tends to be viewed in monetary terms.

Often, the impairment percentage so derived, then is directly translated into a monetary sum for purposes of compensating these losses.

Weirich suggests that the value of a monetary sum depends partly on the risks that went into obtaining it, irrespective of the gambler's feelings, so that (for instance) \$100 million as the result of a sure bet is more than \$100 million from a gamble that might have paid nothing.

Similar to funding highway maintenance with tolls and taxes, we asked if some monetary sum should be collected annually (e.g., when a citizen renew his/her driver's license) and how much they thought they would be willing to contribute.

Eventually a compromise was reached; Lovat retained the liferents and Fraser gained a monetary sum instead.

There's the monetary sum, but there's also the toll that the incident has taken on me.

Damages are a monetary sum paid by the defendant for the claimant's loss of enjoyment or any physical damage suffered; they may be paid for things as varied as loss of sleep or any loss of comfort caused by noise or smells.

When the checks and letters of apology went out in 1991, President George H.W. Bush wrote to surviving families: "A monetary sum and words alone cannot restore lost years or erase painful memories; neither can they fully convey our nation's resolve to rectify injustice and to uphold the rights of individuals.