Sentence examples for preferential amount from inspiring English sources

Yesterday, after appearing on TV to defend his position, Malik stepped down and the prime minister asked the ­government's independent adviser on ministerial interests, Sir Philip Mawer, to investigated whether the £100 rent he paid was a "preferential" amount that the code of conduct says should be declared.

Burguillo-Cuesta et al.[116] wonder that available literature on the transport sector's energy demand has paid little attention to this issue considering that the outcome of this preferential treatment amounts to 'a socio-economic phenomenon that deserves to be analyzed'.

Under state law, he said, a "preferential rent" — an amount below what an owner could legally charge a regulated tenant — can be either temporary or permanent, depending on what the lease provides.

To ensure reproducibility and to prevent any preferential amplification, the amount of DNA was standardised for each sample.

Rich-country promises about granting preferential treatment have amounted to little.

But the law change allows deregulation even if the tenant pays what the rent-stabilization code calls a "preferential" rent below that amount.

No amount of preferential bidding and sweet deals for American companies -- including the extra dollar or so a gallon that Halliburton charges for shipping fuel into Iraq -- will repay American taxpayers for the cost of going it largely alone.

The potentiometric response of copper hexacyanoferrate membranes electrodeposited above 0.40 V vs SCE became however weaker with decreasing K+ content in CuHCF membranes and both the amount of preferential K+ dissolution and the extent of the membrane potential shift became smaller during the membrane conditioning.

"It is only fair that subsidiaries of multinational companies pay their share of taxes and do not receive preferential treatment which could amount to hidden subsidies," said Mr Almunia.

Moreover, the overall higher surface sensitivity of the XPS measurement to the Fe 2p level compared to As 3d and S 2p and/or some small amount of preferential reoxidation of Fe during the sample's exposure to air during its transfer to the XPS instrument could have also resulted in the detection of oxidized iron species, even after cleaning the surface.

It is only fair that subsidiaries of multinational companies pay their share of taxes and do not receive preferential treatment which could amount to hidden subsidies".