Sentence examples for various sums from inspiring English sources

As a result he received various sums amounting to just over £414,000.

Ancient civilizations also instituted the poll tax, with various sums levied on citizens, slaves, or foreigners.

Negotiations have occurred in spurts, with various sums being proposed by both the government and the bank.

The celebrated 22nd chapter of Rum Punch, with bags containing various sums of money, or none, being passed and switched around Macy's ladies' department, is followed by at least two detailed retellings of what actually happened.

His probable Democratic rival, Bill Bristow, the state's leading criminal-defence lawyer, has already attacked Mr Huckabee's ethics; he is accused of failing to disclose various sums of money that were paid to him on his campaigns, and has refused to respond to subpoenas from the state ethics commission, which sued him in February.

Sen. Obama's advisers claim getting out of Iraq would save tens of billions of dollars a year, and he has other schemes to raise various sums.

In the various sum-theoretical analyses of mass expressions (Cartwright 1965, 1979b; Burge 1977; Moravcsik 1973), all mass expressions with their non-count features disappear upon analysis and are replaced by talk of sums (the metaphysical significance of such replacement is discussed in 3.1).

Although the orthogonal decomposition of the IO tables has so far been considered using a marginal sum and kernel structure matrix, IO tables can also be reconstructed by combining various marginal sums and kernel structure matrices.

Mr. McCall saw parallels between Nassau's situation and the biblical story of the man who gave his various servants sums of money, which some invested profitably, but which one buried in the earth, angering the master.

But in 2012 he ran into further problems after failing to pay a string of auction houses; his total unpaid bill to worldwide auctioneers and art dealers included £4.3m owed to Bonhams, around £30m to Sotheby's, and various other sums owed to at least five other auction houses and art dealers.

To remain financially solvent, Wallace worked grading government examinations, wrote 25 papers for publication between 1872 and 1876 for various modest sums, and was paid by Lyell and Darwin to help edit some of their own works.