Sentence examples for on a ledger from inspiring English sources

The cost of climate change rarely appears as one neat sum on a ledger, it doesn't come itemised on your shopping bill, but it's exacted through trillions of tiny tolls and tariffs on almost everything you can conceive of: food prices, insurance premiums, defence budgets, welfare, utility bills, even the house prices Quentin's colleagues are so inordinately obsessed with.

Bricken continued researching the subject until 2009, as he tried to turn names on a ledger into biographies of men and, in one case, a woman -- Mary Lingelbach, buried in 1902 beneath a Confederate headstone with no explanation or record of her service.

On a ledger, as a pooling of resources, marriage made sense.

First they saw a smudge on a ledger, underneath a number showing the total weekly collections from Mass.

"My concern today is not numbers on a ledger," Ms. Giffords said, "but rather the fate of the American dream to reach for the stars".

The Romney campaign is not likely to get far by acting as though choices like these are simply entries on a ledger.

She argues that this process of recording profit and loss helped spawn the empiricism of the Renaissance and enhanced the momentum of capitalism.The method of putting debits on one side of a ledger and credits on the other enabled Venetian merchants to record their capital, separate it from income and determine the dividends intended for investors.

Coco, however, adds a confidentiality layer on top of a ledger like Ethereum (or any other ledger, because the framework is ledger-agnostic).

The tally was being kept in blue ink on the back page of a ledger.

Some of those documents are on display, including a ledger listing everything owned by Henry VIII when he died, and a copy of the Magna Carta dating to 1225.

His first foray into the work world was in the garment district of Manhattan with his late father, Jacob, an accountant, "sitting on piles of zippers with a ledger book on my knee".