Toronto band Broken Social Scene is proof that any group is only as powerful as the sum of its parts.
Because of the way the aggregate is calculated it is not necessarily exactly the same as the sum of the three test results.
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At the stage of use, GDP is calculated as the sum of final consumption of goods and services, gross formation and net exports excluding imports.
They'd operate as the sum of many independent, relatively dumb processes--just like the autonomic functions of the human central nervous system, from which they take their name.
The global targets the world set for itself five years ago did not emerge from the bottom up, as the sum of what might be feasible in each poor country.
Some bankers in Moscow and Paris said they were perplexed by the case, as the sum of five million rubles is a fraction of the 100 million rubles per year that the head of a large Russian bank would expect to earn.
These systems will know us better than our best friends, but will also be connected to the entire Web of Things as well as the collective sum of all human knowledge.
To continue the interpretation, the story of Cain and Abel may be taken as an illustration of the zero-sum game of primogeniture, as well as an allegory for the slaughter of nomadic pasturage by urban agriculture.
We might even learn how to modify our microbiomes, as the sum total of all these germs are called, to treat illnesses.
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That job and a later stint as executive director of a preschool are the sum of his experience in business.
The cost, especially for small amounts sent to nations with a less well-developed financial sector, can be as much as 20% of the sum, according to the World Bank.
And it has issued a request for public comments on issues such as the use of lump sum loan payments (Where do consumers place loan money that they do not use immediately?) and long-term outcomes for borrowers (Do borrowers who still have a loan after 5 or more years typically feel that the loan was a good choice?).
You can include balances in a Roth IRA as part of your emergency fund as well since you can withdraw the sum of your contributions at any time for any reason without tax or penalty.
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It thus needs to be financed from the money of Zakah, the amount of which is to be decided based on the total sum of the charity, the requirements of Jihad as well as the degree of the need of other potential recipients of charity.
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Still, the genres which fall under the rock category should still recognize themselves as rock, for that genre is the sum of its whole.
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The bars, which show the sum of the influences on inflation, would as a rule track the bold line, showing the influence of unemployment, quite closely.
However, you may have the option of taking some of this pension as a tax-free lump sum when you retire, thereby reducing the annual pension you will receive thereafter to around half of your final salary.
Ongoing military operations, such as the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, swallow the largest sum of defense spending, laying claim to more than 10% of taxpayer dollars, the White House said.
" Attending a workshop last weekend in Venice of the Council for the United States and Italy, I heard one of them sum up the problem as succinctly as a French aphorist: "The growth agenda is nice to say but difficult to fill up.
Nonetheless, the stockmarket still treats it as a conglomerate, valuing the company at 30% below the sum of its parts.
The result is ice-as-poetry, a visual panorama that is greater than the sum of its frozen molecules, making clear that glaciers deserve our reverence, and are certainly not just an obstacle to be removed so that oil companies can drill for more oil.
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Garry Bigland, the centre manager, said Ms McGaughey had been "obviously very upset by the situation as it was a significant sum of money".
As the IMF has been pushing for a larger quota, a larger sum of money in the form of an AMF could not be hurtful - and indeed provides an added rationale.
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Though dishes like shrimp dumplings and egg tarts are what most Westerners think of as dim sum, many locals still enjoy the old Guangzhou style, which is served at a number of restaurants.
Under this contract known as pajak, the company could occupy Sabah in perpetuity as long as it paid a regular sum of money.
Mr Hagen, meanwhile, has both pandered to anti-immigrant sentiment and cast himself as the defender of the creaking but familiar welfare, education and health systems: in sum, here is the defender of the Norwegian way of life.
Yesterday, the beleaguered handset maker disclosed that Apple has agreed to pay the company both a one-time lump sum and ongoing royalties as part of a deal to settle all patent infringement litigation between the two companies.
Even that is seen as a modest sum compared to some of the world's major universities.
You can usually take some of the fund as a lump sum but the rest must normally be used to buy an annuity.
If German corporations disclose executive compensation figures, for instance, they typically do so as a lump sum--often in the tens of millions of euros--which includes the pay of all the members of the management board.
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