Sentence examples for schemes amount from inspiring English sources

If the private sector is paralysed with fear, they say, such schemes amount to pushing on pieces of string.Will he budge?

We ought to stop spending money we don't have, he told cheering Iowa fairgoers, before repeating a tendentious Romney campaign claim that new federal rules offering states flexibility as they run welfare-to-work schemes amount to Mr Obama abandoning work requirements first introduced under Bill Clinton.

A third question is why reciprocity obligations owed to fellow cooperators in basic security schemes amount to more than the requirement to contribute a fair share to the burdens of supplying the goods.

But more importantly, Davidson himself holds that the least controversial versions of indeterminacy, having to do with diverging reference schemes, amount to mere notational variance as he puts it, meaning is what is invariant between empirically adequate translation schemes (Davidson 1977, 225; 1999a, 81).

We have always said that it was ridiculous to say that our schemes amounted to forced labour, and yet again we have won this argument.

In a judicial review, claims by two jobseekers that the government's back-to-work schemes amounted to "forced labour" were rejected.

Three years ago, the actuarial deficit in Premier's two main pension schemes amounted to £474m, a shortfall which is expected to have ballooned since then.

Duncan Smith said: "We have always said that it was ridiculous to claim that our schemes amounted to forced labour, and yet again we have won this argument".

According to the former senior intelligence officer, Maliki's government is presiding over a number of schemes, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars a year, to help the Iranian regime outwit Western economic sanctions.

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).