Sentence examples for amount to aggression from inspiring English sources

While de-funding and de-secularizing both amount to aggression toward the public school as we know it, the finance issue was more pressing and the stuff of national news.

The acts that amount to aggression in the I.C.C. definition are familiar to any student of World War II: invasion, bombardment, blockade, attacking the armed forces of another state, contravening an agreement to station forces in another state, allowing one's territory to be used by another state to attack a third state, and the sending of armed bands.

According to a UN definition of 1974, the use of foreign armed forces on the territory of a state in contravention of the agreement governing that presence amounts to aggression.

In his speech to the Russian parliament, Putin ridiculed the idea that events in Crimea amounted to Russian aggression and said there had been no shots fired and no casualties during recent weeks.

For Moscow, Europe's intervention amounts to unwarranted aggression in its backyard.

Ukraine's foreign ministry said on Tuesday that the presence of foreign fighters amounted to "undisguised aggression" from Russia and "the export of Russian terrorism to our country".

ADEN, March 26 (Reuters) - A senior leader of Yemen's Houthi movement said on Thursday that Saudi air strikes amounted to an aggression against his country and warned they would set off a "wide war" in the region.

"To use force without security council authority would amount to a crime of aggression," Wood wrote in a memorandum to Straw.

In a memo to Straw, Wood added: "To use force without security council authority would amount to a crime of aggression".

The inquiry also heard that Straw refused to accept advice from Sir Michael Wood, a legal adviser at the Foreign Office, that to attack Iraq without Security Council authority "would amount to a crime of aggression".

A US military air strike against Islamists in Syria without President Assad's consent would amount to an "act of aggression", according to Russia's Foreign Ministry.