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The phrase "a speech that amounts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the significance or impact of a speech, often implying that it has a certain value or weight.
Example: "The politician delivered a speech that amounts to a call for unity in these divisive times."
Alternatives: "a speech that constitutes" or "a speech that represents".
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Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain will close the conference with a speech that amounts to a farewell address — his tenure running out amid recriminations over the Iraq war.
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Romney called for fewer government regulations and lower taxes but offered few details in a speech that emphasized his biography and amounted to a rebuttal of months of attacks from Obama's team.
Many were angry that the army had not prevented this man from delivering a speech that in their eyes amounted to incitement to violence.
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The federal appeals court overturned that ruling, saying the policy was far broader because it prohibited "a substantial amount of speech that would not constitute actionable harassment under either federal or state law".
Even under the majority's holding that spending money in elections is a form of political speech protected by the First Amendment, Stevens finds "nothing even arguably unfair about evenhanded rules that limit the amount of speech that can be voiced in certain times or places or by certain means".
Judge Patel held that blocking Bernstein's publication amounted to a prior restraint on his speech that violated the First Amendment.
As he describes it, early Islamic lore (whose precedents can't be ignored) is overwhelmingly concerned with the avoidance of fitna, a term that can mean many undesirable things from sedition to confusion to war or anarchy; Islam deplores (though you can argue about how severely it seeks to punish) any kind of speech that leads to or in itself amounts to fitna.
That amounts to 35 cents a share.
Voice Media Group, the publisher of the Phoenix New Times and one of the named plaintiffs, has been harassed by Arizona law enforcement in the past for publishing nude photos that amounted to protected speech.
These forces of centralized control are pushing laws and policies that amount to an abrogation of free speech and free assembly.
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