He extorted a large amount of money from her.

Spending a large amount of money to do a little amount of good is not a sound investment.

Soon after, the Arabs returned to Syria after collecting a sufficiently large amount of booty.

However, the body can endure a large amount of pressure for brief periods of time.

This eliminated a large amount of usable fresh water and also destroyed much of the riverine ecosystems of several large west flowing rivers.

According to the State party, it is exclusively for the courts to decide, in the light of all the circumstances, whether a given amount of narcotics is to be qualified as constituting a small , large or exceptionally large amount.

The large amount of ice and snow also reflects a large part of what little sunlight the Polar regions receive, contributing to the cold.

There is often a large amount of swelling around the jaw area, and in some cases bruising.

The draft law will strengthen the requirement to declare large financial transactions which exceed a certain amount.

A large amount of Singapore's OFDI to China was also channelled through Hong Kong (China) (table 1).

It all comes down to that power plant how to get a large amount of power in a small package.

These buildings tend to accumulate a large amount of snow on them, which is seen as a factor in their insulation.

The high ice production rates within these polynyas leads to a large amount of brine rejection into the surface waters.

Those acts took place on a very large scale and in a systematic manner, and may therefore amount to crimes against humanity.

For example, cancers that produce a large amount of a protein called HER 2 are likely to be susceptible to treatment with Herceptin.

When they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers,

In this case, the Libyans did not respond by withdrawing a large amount of funds, but that could happen in the future.

If a large amount of x ray contrast material leaks out under the skin where the IV is placed, skin damage can result.

Ant solves this problem by providing a large amount of built in functionality that is designed to behave the same on all platforms.

This instalment contains seven unusually large or complex claims within the meaning of the Rules, with a total amount claimed of USD 428,417,393.

The amount budgeted for air services was inevitably large in such a large country, but there should be maximum sharing of regional assets, especially as so many peacekeeping operations were active in neighbouring countries.

During the early years of the republic, the government invested a large amount of resources into fine arts such as paintings, sculpture and architecture.

Due to a design flaw, a chip aboard the spacecraft had degraded during the mission, and a large amount of the data which had been returned was unusable.

Getting that energy is very, very difficult. It all comes down to that power plant how to get a large amount of power in a small package.

The total amount of resources remitted may, however, be two or three times higher, since a large number of transactions are realized through informal channels.

But, because publicly traded companies usually have a large amount of capital in place, lax rules would enable insiders to use this capital to their advantage.

During the first years of the republic, the government invested a large amount of resources into fine arts such as museums, theatres, opera houses and architecture.

Even so, there is large amount of school dropouts and kids who are not receiving any education due to financial constraints.

Fat free mass (muscle) is a good conductor as it contains a large amount of water (approximately 73 ) and electrolytes, while fat is anhydrous and a poor conductor of electric current.

Betty promises to help Rita remember her identity, and the two of them find a large amount of money and an unusual blue key in Rita's purse.

If a large amount of fluid is present, then this procedure can also be used therapeutically to remove that fluid and improve patient comfort and lung function.

A large amount of laundered money that has escaped the national financial authorities' supervision and regulation impedes the formulation of precise national monetary policies and taxation systems.

First, when they transact among themselves, large players do not insist on an adequate amount of collateral, relying on the counterparty s generic creditworthiness (and on the implicit guarantees that governments provided to large firms).

So if you look at the green data points, which is air that's outside, you'll see that there's a large amount of microbial diversity, or variety of microbial types.

For example, a comedy film made for 20 million would be considered a modest budget, whereas an action film or science fiction made for the same amount of money would be considered low budget because of the large amount of money required to produce mainstream films of these genres.

The plane made a hard landing and was still carrying a large amount of fuel, so it burst into flames, killing the majority of the passengers and several people on the ground.

Norway has obtained one of the highest standards of living in the world in part by having a large amount of natural resources compared to the size of the population.

The same can be said for the affinity group model, where the few people within each group connected to outside groups allowed for a large amount of mobilization and adaptation.

The fact is that assessment of food requirements representing only 34.5 per cent of the poverty line amount shows that food expenses account to a large extent for essential needs.

Where data are available they do not necessarily reveal important details, such as the fact that for some countries a large amount of OFDI is concentrated in tax haven countries.

Priming with DNA focuses the immune response on the required immunogen, while boosting with the recombinant virus provides a larger amount of expressed antigen, leading to a large increase in specific CTL responses.

A military parade dedicated to the celebration of the so called Independence Day on September 20th, 2005 in Tskhinvali, during which separatists demonstrated large amount of military equipment, has become a special indignation.

A military parade dedicated to the celebration of the so called Independence Day on September 20th, 2005 in Tskhinvali, during which separatists demonstrated large amount of military equipment, has become a special indignation.

The asteroids are a substantial amount of real estate, but not very large. And it's not very promising for life, since most of it consists of rock and metal, mostly rock.

Moreover, whalers do not want to use a large amount of explosive, because that would blow the whale to pieces, while the whole point is to recover valuable oil or flesh.