Sentence examples for amount to a general from inspiring English sources

These principles together amount to a general requirement of propriety.

Even freely given oaths of office and naturalization do not usually amount to a general commitment to obey the law (Greenawalt 1987).

Research on insular dwarfism in numerous species, including mammals indicates, however, that "[w]hile the most extreme examples are highly compelling, they do not show the enormous variation characterizing the pathways of insular size evolution and do not amount to a general rule" [96].

The DUP has claimed that amounts to a general amnesty for those concerned.

Another obvious risk is that Paul is running what amounts to a general election strategy, with a broad message aimed at swing voters in the middle.

With more than 160,000 American troops now in Iraq, the withdrawal in January of one brigade, roughly 3,500 to 4,500 troops, would not amount to a large drain on General Petraeus's forces.

These constructions, which amount to a geometric solution of the general quadratic, appear in Books I, II, and VI of the Elements and can be associated in some form with the 5th-century Pythagoreans.

What this amounts to is a general condition of sexual malaise at best, and a population of elective celibates at worst.

There follows questioning that amounts almost to a general chat about politics: how both Serbs and Croats were, says Karadzic "in favour of a decentralised Bosnia consisting of three entities whereas the Muslim side wanted to have a unitary Bosnia".

The shape of the government remained uncertain after the meeting, and for the generals, who amount to an interim and personality-driven regime, one of their first challenges was the situation at the hospital, a cold and stinking place where a dead soldier's wide-eyed body was stretched out today on the floor by the entrance.

"Some people who see themselves as patriots formed what amounts to a terrorist group," General Bolugiray said.