Under the Concordat between local authorities and the Scottish government, councils agreed to pay kinship carers an amount equivalent to that received by foster carers.
For each new home, the Department for Communities and Local Government pays an amount equivalent to the national average for its council tax band every year for six years.
According to the IMF's latest Fiscal Monitor, when you add their 6% of GDP deficit to the public debt that needs to be rolled over this year, France will need to raise an amount equivalent to more than 20% of their national income from the financial markets in 2011.
Dr Binder estimates that the amount is equivalent to between 10m and 300m tonnes of water.
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With 40-60 years as a guide, the past amount of equivalent time should provide some guide of changes occurring during that time.
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He said they were given an amount equal to a salt cellar half their size, so humans would have to eat an equivalent amount.
Irrevocable trusts enable individuals to avoid estate tax on more than the exemption equivalent amount of property.
It would then arrange to have an equivalent amount in foreign currency deposited in the client's accounts offshore.
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For instance, if Forbes buys paper from a supplier, then that supplier should pay an equivalent amount for subscriptions from us.
High efficiency engines help conserve fossil fuels and reduce emissions by consuming less fuel while generating an equivalent amount of power.
People with FLPs should consider gifting an equivalent amount of limited partnership interests, so as to decrease the value of their estate.
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Certainly, raising an equivalent amount of tax revenue through means other than increases in marginal tax rates would likely have a smaller negative incentive effect.
Enter the mileage, and the app tells you what size of mangrove forest, equatorial rain forest or seagrass meadow, among other habitats, store an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide.
Apparently, Merck-Medco accounted for sales in a way that booked co-payments that consumers pay to pharmacies as revenue for Merck, and then booked an equivalent amount as costs.
The federal government also has been a big financial backer for solar energy projects, which can qualify for a 30 percent tax credit or receive cash in the equivalent amount.
An alternative to the promissory note arrangement is considered in which a 40-year bond is used as collateral for regular ECB loans which replace an equivalent amount the ELA debt.
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"While in 2011, the fund invested 150bn krone of the year's capital transfers in European equities, in 2012, the fund invested nearly an equivalent amount in emerging bond markets", said Mr Slyngstad.
Companies that bid for a few large regions to obtain nationwide spectrum paid almost twice as much as firms with the equivalent amount of spectrum assembled from hundreds of licences in smaller areas.
The motor is guaranteed to last for five years, and the firm estimates over its lifetime it should be able to pump the equivalent amount of air needed to fill 26 million party balloons.
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When you or I accept dollars in exchange for providing goods and services, we do so trusting that when we spend those dollars, they will be accepted for an equivalent amount of goods and services.
Depositors will be compensated with the equivalent amount in shares in their banks, and Mr Anastasiades promised that those who kept deposits in Cypriot banks for the next two years would be given bonds linked to revenues from natural gas.
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Under the bailout's current terms, depositors will be compensated with the equivalent amount in shares in their banks, and Mr Anastasiades promised that those who kept deposits in Cypriot banks for the next two years would be given bonds linked to revenues from natural gas.
The plant, which has been 12 years in the planning, is expected to generate 165, 500kwh of electricity per year - the amount to power the equivalent of more than 50 homes - with most of it being sold to the Environment Agency.
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As a result, the Budget included a placeholder for DOD FY 2014 Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding, equivalent to the amount provided in the President's FY 2013 Budget.
The "cubic mile of oil"--a metric roughly equivalent to the amount of oil consumed worldwide each year--is frequently used to explain the challenge facing solar, wind, geothermal and biomass power.
In 2006, after six years of consecutive declines, the North Sea produced nearly 2 million barrels of oil per day less than it had six years earlier, roughly equivalent to the amount France consumes annually.
Economists such as Mitchell Polinsky, of Stanford Law School, and Steven Shavell, of Harvard Law School, argue that to deter harmful conduct, punitive damages should be equivalent to the amount of harm caused, multiplied by the inverse of the probability of detection.
Graham MacGregor, professor of cardiovascular medicine at Queen Mary, who led the study, said that the "modest reduction" in salt intake was equivalent to halving the amount of salt we consume each day.
In the space of 4 years during World War II, we borrowed the equivalent of three to five times the amount we'd need to borrow to save Social Security over a 20-year period.
"The amount of gas that was taken off the streets today, is equivalent to one year's worth of carbon dioxide emissions from a small petroleum refinery in the heart of Los Angeles, " Johns said.
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