Sentence examples for scheme amount from inspiring English sources

Over the same period, the resources allocated to the Stormont Castle top-up benefit scheme amount to £466m.

The dose-response relationships obtained in these studies indicate that the DEC effectiveness depends on both the type of tumor and therapeutic scheme (amount of electrical charge and electrode array).

Defense lawyers argued that the government scheme amounted to entrapment.

But critics say that the scheme amounts to privatisation of natural resources.

The Italian authorities received 130,000 voluntary declarations as a result of the scheme, amounting to a total of €59.5bn, it said.

And researchers in the UK can apply for European grants, which in the current Horizon 2020 scheme amounts to a fund of more than €70bn (£56bn) over six years.

For example, the original proposals for changes to the BBC pension scheme amounted to what one expert claimed was a "pernicious" retrospective reduction to members' existing pension rights.

The billions that vaporized in Madoff's Ponzi scheme amounted to a rounding error next to the eye-popping federal bailouts, including those pouring into too-big-to-fail banks wrecked by their own Ponzi schemes of securitization.

Randell's latest scheme "amounts to a plan to print his own money," say federal investigators who have tried to untangle the dealings of a pair of Randell companies called the International Trade Exchange and the Washington Trade Exchange.

As it turns out, there is some more funding – an extra £1m for the so-called Healthy Streets (pdf) scheme, amounting to £200,000 extra per year for the five-year programme.

The S.E.C.'s argument that Mr. Madoff's secrecy put the defendants on notice that he was running a fraud scheme amounted to little more than "fraud by hindsight," he noted.