Sentence examples for sum instead of from inspiring English sources

They are in Rome, ordering dim sum instead of pasta.

He asks her if she will agree to a flat sum instead of a weekly alimony.

He also wants to provide larger emergency checks — such as a six-month lump sum instead of a single month's pay.

Mr. Schenk had tried to get lottery officials to give him a lump sum, instead of $50,000 annual installments over 20 years, so he could enter a hospital that specialized in treating advanced cancer.

NASA's Mars Orbiter crashed because engineers forgot to convert to metric measurements; JPMorgan Chase's "London Whale" venture went bad in part because modelers divided by a sum instead of an average.

I thought I remembered another recent Excel disaster — and sure enough, spreadsheet coding played a role in the London Whale disaster at JP Morgan: After subtracting the old rate from the new rate, the spreadsheet divided by their sum instead of their average, as the modeler had intended.

"We've extended the choices even further by offering people the option of taking a number of smaller lump sums, instead of one single big lump sum".

But from April 2015, savers over the age of 55 will be given the option of taking a number of smaller lump sums, instead of one single big lump sum, and in each case, 25% of the sum will be tax-free.

By reckoning the payments annually according to the tax base (rather than how cantons tax and spend) and by providing lump sums instead of semi-hidden subsidies, the system preserves cantons' freedom of action and also encourages tax competition.None of this is to idealise Switzerland.

For instance, the review advocated giving grantees a lump-sum, instead of a contract in which every euro has to be accounted for.

using a = min { x 1, …, x k } and b = max { x 1, …, x k } and by putting the sums instead of integrals.