Sentences with phrase «quoted a figure of»

After an awkward three minutes, Barnett eventually quoted the figure of # 2.7 bn to Corbyn who told her she was correct.

For example, Japan repeatedly quotes a figure of 760 000 as the committee's estimate of the number of minke whales in the Southern Ocean, yet you will not find such a figure in any report from the IWC's scientific committee.

This was likely to reflect adversely on Bedlingtons, particularly when he quoted a figure of 70 % as the level of CT «carriers» within the breed.

Evans also quoted figures of 5 and 12 million, but took the figure of 18 million from a 1993 NSW Parliament speech by then state Labor MP Bob Martin where he stated «Wildlife experts state that between 5.6 million and 18.4 million of these animals are roaming Australia».

Professor David Pimentel and colleagues at Cornell University in 2001 quoted a figure of 18 million feral cats in Australia, with the reference being an anonymous 1996 New Zealand newspaper article.

The well - respected Maddie's Fund quotes a figure of «around 3 million healthy or treatable dogs and cats put to death in shelters every year» (ref 2).

Andy quoted a figure of 1500 years from the paper, all I said was to suggest taking model - generated numbers like that with a grain of salt.

Someone quoted figures of $ 799.

Not exact matches

The reaction of Wolff's book has been a healthy dose of skepticism from the media and denials from figures quoted in it.

You were quoted by The Globe and Mail saying Figure 1 wants to own healthcare, and get tens of millions of medical professions from around the world using the app in the future.

All of our figures are quoted in the TMG lawsuit, which is available in full here.

For instance, instead of taking their requests and building a quote, we would dive deep within their company to figure out how we could build a product that would translate into real - world business value.

«If one supplier quotes us a slightly higher price, but at net 60 days instead of net 30, we'll do a complete cost analysis to figure out which way we're better off, making certain we factor in our costs of money,» Blocher explains.

If one uses real rates of inflation produced by Shadowstats (versus the fantasy land figures of low inflation quoted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics every month for years on end), one can prove that the US dollar has crashed.

One of the United Kingdom's most famous historical figures and former Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, is credited with some of the most profound quotes in history;

Dooley was a figure Dunne had invented for his satirical columns, the fictional owner of a fictional Irish pub located on the South Side of Chicago (so the quote actually read: «He's kind iv a society f» r the previntion of croolty to money...», etc.).

The director of jail operations for the National Sheriffs Association was quoted as saying, «The figures are a national disgrace.»

Not surprisingly, St. Faustina's diary figures prominently, and several passages of The Imitation of Christ are quoted.

Although the company accepts the testimonials in good faith, we have not independently examined the business records of any of the testimonial providers, and therefore, have not verified any specific figures or results quoted therein.

It might not have influenced him, but it situates him in a particular era in the history of silliness, with the 1890s still an incense - drowned memory, and such figures as Baron Corvo — whom Williams quotes with approval more than once in his writings — hovering on the borders of literary life.

In many parts of the world, women are still oppressed, and in Western society sexism is still rampant The contemporary American theologian Charlene Spretnak quotes figures which indicate that one in every three women in the USA will be raped during her lifetime, and that one woman is physically beaten every fourteen seconds in the USA.

For example, between 1960 and 1980, the figure above quoted had fallen to around 25 per cent, but the following decades of aggressive neo-liberal economic - corporate globalization we could witness alarming inequalities in the distribution of wealth and income that we have ever witnessed in the history of humankind.

John Delaney, editor of Catholic books for Doubleday, has figured out that so many Americans have bought Bibles during the past ten years that one out of every three of them (excluding children who can't read) should he able to quote chapter and verse in unison.

This is an old post, but we will continue debating it till someone believe that Christ was not using figure of speeches or just quoting other scripts.

Hirota quotes Karl Barth's emphatic statement that Christianity is bound up with the historical figure of Jesus Christ.

Furthermore what you've already quoted above over and over again is that Lenin and later Stalin were two such communists who enforced atheism to consolidate power, the specific targeting of religious folks was so they can bring the proletariat to them rather than let the masses have a separate authority figure.

A study of NPR's Morning Edition during the first Bush administration, for example, revealed that of 616 high - ranking political figures quoted 57 percent were Republicans or high - ranking Bush administration members, and 42 percent were Democrats.

A bunch of religous zealots are on there quoting scripture and comparing the nut to bibical figures.

Frankly, this blog strikes me as one of those deals where the former pastor figures out that all the other religious people are wrong, and he doesn't want to be one of those «fundie douchebags» (to quote one of your fans), and so he starts spewing cynical knee - jerk vitriol against anything that smacks of conservativism or evangelicalism or whatever.

Certainly the picture is sufficiently clear to call into question the figures of over 100 million which have occasionally been quoted, and to assert that not all viewers of religious programs are viewers of the paid - time programs.

Falwell's claim that his program was viewed regularly by an audience of 20 million people, a figure widely quoted during the preelection period in 1980, is totally without substantiation: in November 1980, according to Nielsen figures, the audience was 1.2 million, a figure of which Falwell would have been well aware.

In his correspondence, dated 23rd April 2018, Bishop John quotes recent Scottish Government figures which show 57 per cent of religiously aggravated crime is committed against Catholics, who make up only 16 per cent of the population.

This quote, often attributed to one of my very favorite historical figures, Ben Franklin, encapsulates two very different approaches to food.

According to figures quoted in the report — recorded up to November last year - Australia exported eight million head of livestock to 18 countries in 1139 consignments, with only 22 incidents of animal welfare concern, since ESCAS's introduction.

She had budgeted on $ 5.60 a kilogram of milk solids for this season, a figure she had been quoted by milk company Fonterra, and was trying to maintain production.

The 61 year old manager cut a forlorn figure after losing at Old Trafford and is now fighting to keep his job with Sporting Life quoting odds of 4/5 on the former Malaga manager being the next English top tier boss to be axed.

Even the Turin media have quoted prices this summer around the $ 30m mark and after last summer's constant banging of the $ 40m figure, it's clear that Vidal's perceived value has dropped.

Shad Forsythe, our new physio (or physical trainer) said that our preparations and the state of the players shape after games was «prehistorical» (I am quoting «France Football» where he gave an interview) and it will take him up to a year to figure out what to do.

And when he said things like, «No man should be allowed to be President after he's 35,» and, «If a black man gunned me down right now I'd figure it was all right because of what whites have done to blacks,» the quotes were trumpeted in newspapers all across the country.

After Leicester's unlikely success the quoted odds are not really very realistic for the teams outside the elite six, and the generosity of years gone by has been replaced by some ridiculously short figures, when we all know that there are only six teams that can possibly come out on top.

In the January issue of the official club magazine, he is quoted as seeing Fabregas as a mentor - like figure, someone who has walked the same shoes and rose to the prestigious honour of being named Arsenal captain.

On Friday BBC Sport quoted a figure close to Bakambu as saying that Guoan provided the funds to buy himself out of his contract at Villarreal.

Quoting from the middle of the post «Those who have read this far have probably figured out that this is a satire.

Unfortunately, people use quotation marks when communicating both direct quotes, and figures of speech.

It is a figure of speech, not a direct quote.

What the two leaders have done is to quote a relatively small figure of GHC 9.5 billion as what they left in 2009 and quote a nominal GHC 122 billion as what currently represents our debt stock.

On April 10, ISNA quoted Mohammadreza Pour Ebrahimi, a member of the parliament's Economic Affairs Committee, as saying: «In addition to the approved figures, $ 1.5 billion has been allocated to prop up defense of the country and this amount has been approved by this committee.»

With regards to the growth rate, it is important to stress that the Ghana Statistical Service, which is the primary source of data on economic management in Ghana and on whom even development partners rely for information on our economy, are yet to release figures for the last quarter of 2016, hence the figure of 3.6 % quoted by President Akufo Addo can only provisional if not to create mischief for political gain.

Even the figures quoted by the President as the growth rate for 2016, is higher than the West African average especially when note is taken of recessions in the Nigerian and other economies.

For instance, a professional teacher of Principal Superintendent (PS) status with the Ghana Education Service (GES) according to the figure quoted in the validation forms was to be paid 1,850.96 Ghana cedis but received a text message from the CAGD indicating an amount of 1,767.57 Ghana cedis as the salary for January 2016.