"Their lives," he added, "represent millions of others that were snuffed out."

The coalition is by far the most sweeping effort to date to bring investors together with social action groups representing millions of members.

Probably no one took greater comfort from that decision than the publisher, since a successful textbook represents millions of dollars in revenue.

"Senator Clinton not only lives in Westchester but represents millions of people near the power plant and is concerned for their security," she said.

Often a single line comparing budget with actual can represent millions or even billions of pounds.

This was a huge amount and would represent millions in today's terms.

The idea, she said, "is not to have job lines just sitting there, representing millions of dollars available when he needs it."

Numbers represent millions of base pairs on the chromosome.

The payoffs, the official said, would represent millions of dollars each year.

Given that public procurement represents millions of euro every year, its economic importance is in no doubt.