Sentence examples for public sums from inspiring English sources

Critics contend that such huge public sums should be funnelled away from billionaires and toward more pressing – though admittedly less exciting – improvements to schools, public safety and the like.

Tally the revenue and profit from private technology companies, if you could, and add that to the public sums and see if things are actually in decline.

Since the virus can be transmitted by sex, it's no surprise to hear that a common reaction of the public, summed up by a letter to Time magazine in 1988, was a call to return to "the God-fearing moral standard of yesterday".

Independent experts say China's public total excludes major sums spent on research and procurement that are concealed in other budgets, though the total remains far lower than that of the United States.

Not only do they save the public considerable sums of money, they also speed up the criminal justice process (which is still too slow) and – perhaps most importantly of all – they reduce the anxiety and distress otherwise experienced by victims and witnesses who have to wait many months, and sometimes longer, for an outcome in their case.

The important point is that these bookkeeping operations simply record a process whereby the central bank has created, out of thin air as it were, additional base money (currency held by the public plus sums deposited with a reserve bank)—the direct counterpart of printing Federal Reserve notes.

All three are open to the public, for sums ranging from impressive to manageable.

He may trump this by getting his public-finance sums more right than most observers expected.

The feeling among the press and the public was summed up by a colleague who wrote: "Whatever happens, Merkel is bound to disappoint the British".

It is a secret thought, not much expressed in public, but summed up in Philip Larkin's poem Toads: "No one actually starves".

In a letter to would-be shareholders when the company filed to go public, Mr. Zuckerberg summed up his corporate philosophy this way: "Simply put, we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services".