Sentence examples for amount to a declaration of from inspiring English sources

North Korea has said such actions would amount to a "declaration of war".

A switch to G.D.P. targeting would amount to a declaration of comfort with higher levels of inflation.

It would amount to a declaration of war, trumpeted the leader of the main Christian opposition party, Michel Aoun.

At the United Nations, efforts were afoot to enforce sanctions against the North, which the North says would amount to a declaration of war.

In anticipation of the opposition's forming a national council, the government spokesman, Abdu al-Janadi, said last week in an online posting that such a move would amount to "a declaration of war".

While North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations warned that any Security Council effort to impose economic sanctions would amount to "a declaration of war," two North Korean officials pursued more conciliatory private talks in Santa Fe, N.M., with Gov. Bill Richardson, their chosen intermediary, who was in close consultation with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell.

Healthcare's hyperinflation has ignited the DIY Health Reformers to declare what amounts to a Declaration of Insurance Independence.

"Declaring the state of alarm amounts to a declaration of impotence," Mr. Rajoy told Parliament.

We realised that the NCB announcement on 6 March had amounted to a declaration of war.

Mr. Miqdad was harshly critical of the coalition, saying its plans for Syria amounted to a declaration of war.

Diderot was happy to indulge Rousseau's polemic, and did not initially realize that it amounted to a declaration of war on his own project.