Sentence examples for administration amounted from inspiring English sources

Lee said the DPRK saw the 1999-2000 rapprochement with the Clinton Administration as the first, failed, chance for peace with the U.S.; that the Bush (43) Administration had turned to negotiations too late for substantial progress; and that the Obama Administration amounted to a "second chance".

Direct payments from the Daley administration amounted to $23.2 million from 2001 to 2009, according to data posted on the city's Web site.

Joe Garcia, executive director of the Cuban American National Foundation, based in Miami, said the restrictions adopted by the administration amounted to "bad policy and bad politics".

A few days earlier, he told me that his party's unwillingness to work with the Obama administration amounted to an "opportunity" for him to be the Hill's deal-maker in chief, adding with a laugh, "I mean, I'm not having to push through people to get to the front of the line".

But the competition department of the commission he heads is also investigating Luxembourg on the grounds that some of the "comfort letters", tax rulings, and avoidance strategies agreed by his then administration amounted to state aid in breach of EU competition rules.

Mr. Gore's appearance, which was sponsored by New York University College Democrats, a student organization, and MoveOn.org PAC, an offshoot of an online organization that has run advertisements criticizing the president and his administration, amounted to a broad-gauge attack on the man who defeated Mr. Gore in 2000.

"Today's decision by the administration amounts to nothing short of an indefinite delay of the Keystone pipeline.

The new corporate-average fuel economy (CAFE) figure, originally scheduled for 2020 but brought four years forward by the Obama administration, amounts to a 34% increase over today's actual average of 26.4mpg.How to achieve such a whopping increase in efficiency over so short a time?

Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin stood out among those who held that the Roosevelt and Truman administrations amounted to "20 years of treason".

Two years earlier Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, who held that the Roosevelt and Truman administrations amounted to "20 years of treason," claimed that he had a list of State Department employees who were loyal only to the Soviet Union.

Those figures include two recent increases provided by the Clinton administration, amounting to a little less than 9percentt.