Sentence examples for total amount of goods from inspiring English sources

Is $135 million the total amount of goods you've sold — or is that your commission? A. The commission.

The base (the total amount of goods that would be subject to tax) would range from one-third to one-half of gross domestic product.

Maritime traffic accounts for more than half the total amount of goods loaded and unloaded in the Netherlands, and, indeed, the whole southern part of the North Sea may be likened to an immense traffic square, fed by the Thames, Rhine, Maas, and Schelde rivers, with links into the hinterland of the continent that make it one of the greatest commercial arteries of the world.

This claim is about GDP per head (that's the total amount of goods and services produced by the economy divided by the population).

A recession is defined as two or more successive quarters where GDP, the total amount of goods and services the country produces, shrinks.

Its Japanese e-commerce division grew 10percentt on GMV — the total amount of goods sold on platforms — but profit was up just six percent and revenue 13percentt on the previous financial year.

First, the total amount of good and evil in any system remains constant.

Egalitarian critics of classical utilitarianism argue that the latter outcome is better, so more than the total amount of good matters.

From the divine perspective, viewing the universe as one system, the removal of such ills or afflictions would produce greater ill or diminish the total amount of good in the world.

Act consequentialism is the claim that an act is morally right if and only if that act maximizes the good, that is, if and only if the total amount of good for all minus the total amount of bad for all is greater than this net amount for any incompatible act available to the agent on that occasion.

Egoism, in other words, can be treated as a purely formal thesis: it holds that whether the good is pleasure, or virtue, or the satisfaction of desires, one should not attempt to maximize the total amount of good in the world, but only one's own.