The sum refundedamounts on the average to a little below a quarter of the total State revenue--to be accurate, 23.
In private life, we rarely meet with that degree of candour which amounts to an unequivocal admission of error in point of judgment--in public life, such an admission is altogether unknown.
In each instance for these holes, the one through the button line and the one through the buttonhole line, the hole amounts to a ragged slit approximately one-half inch in height.
Now, on the front of the shirt, I found whatamounts to one hole.
The amountswere set down in English money, and Mr. Nazro asked me to put them into American, or Federal, money.
He gave me a collector's wallet into which to put the bills, and told me to go out and collect the amounts due.
On the other hand, wonderful capacities are obtained with quite small amounts of mica.
They seem to have believed in the pre-existence of the soul and to have held that it was imprisoned in the body, but this hardly amounts to metempsychosis, and metempsychosis cannot be found in the New Testament[1115].
Large amounts of money were found to have been smuggled without permission into the colony on the galleon from Mexico.
In another volume an account was kept of the amounts received from fines and from funds liquidated for the expenses of justice.
A skyscraper is built to withstand only the steady and direct pull of gravity and the variable thrust of the wind which, except in western cyclones, seldom amounts to thirty pounds per square foot.
But even so, the stream hardly amounts to very much if we consider only the quantity of water that passes through it.
Two hundred feet below the surface the pressure amounts to about six tons on every square foot of the surface of the submarine.
So far, Bissell's enterprise seemed to promise success, yet the great problem still remained: how could he obtain this rock oil in amounts large enough to make his enterprise a practical one?
But the discovery of the Minnesota ore field, which alone could supply this essential product in the amounts which the furnaces demanded, immediately deprived the Pittsburgh region of its chief advantage.
When the amalgamation was complete, the insiders found themselves in possession of large amounts of Metropolitan stock.
His earnings have been immeasurably greater than Vanderbilt's; his income for two years amounts to nearly Vanderbilt's total fortune at his death; but the piling up of riches has been by no means his exclusive purpose.
The annual import of food-stuffs amounts to more than fifty dollars per capita.
My own knowledge of the divine art of singing, as I have confessed a thousand times, amounts to little or nothing, but I found something pleasurable in listening to the plutocratic contralto.
In the House of Commons it is not usual to have a long debate on the motion for leave to bring in a Bill, which amounts in substance to a motion that the Bill be read for the first time.
Sir Henry Parnell brought forward a motion for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into, and report upon, the estimates and amounts submitted by his Majesty with regard to the civil service.
But what is to be done when the resistance takes the form of a resolute organized refusal to pay up the amounts claimed or to offer any price for the cattle seized in default of payment?
In saner hours far different are the amounts of these things from what, at first sight, they appear.
With the exception of a larger boat and better accommodations, it amounts to about the same thing as a becalmment I underwent on the Montauk voyage, East Long Island, last summer.
Stripped of all its fine garniture of rhetoric, their proposition simply amounts to this: The sudden addition of 20 per cent.
The only difference is that theamounts involved are much larger and the protected class much richer and the confiscation of the fruits of the toiler much greater than under the old system of the corn laws.
This combination is not effected by a plain average, but the individual price changes are "weighted" according to a comparison of the amounts spent on each of the commodities concerned (e.
The number of sheep and mules sent annually into Spain and France amounts to 1,000.
There are large amounts of similar claims upon the Netherlands, Naples and Denmark.
Finding that individuals treated the agreed amounts of mintings as a minimum limit, the French Government resolved to suspend the minting of the 5-franc pieces entirely.
The amounts given are not the total yield of the American mines, which is out of the question, but the amount of metal brought yearly to Spain by the Silver Fleet.
If we discard his antiquated terminology, and state his position in current terms, we find that it amounts to the assertion that consciousness is in all cases awareness of meaning.
It implies that both the states A and B are cause and that both are effect of each other; but this really amounts to saying that each of the two is the earlier and also the later; thus it is an absurdity.
None the less it is, as he here says, important; and what exactly that importance amounts to, and whether it is really true that it has such minor importance as to be rightly describable as unessential, is what we have to decide.
By itself, it amounts merely to the statement, which no one need challenge, that space is not a generic class concept.
It amounts in fact to this, that having proved (by application of the transcendental method) the mathematical sciences to be valid, everything which their validity necessarily implies must be granted.
What he here says amounts to the assertion that through sensation intuition acquires its object, i.
It is claimed that the number of members and the amounts insured, double those, respectively, in the old or regular companies.
As Referee and Master in Chancery, he was called upon to arbitrate in a great number of difficult and complicated cases, involving the ownership and disposition of large amounts of property.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amounts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
