The phrase "amount to an expression" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the significance or interpretation of something, indicating that it represents or equates to a particular expression or idea.
Example: "His actions may seem trivial, but they amount to an expression of his true feelings."
Alternatives: "constitute an expression" or "represent an expression."
Given the reluctance of many institutional shareholders to vote against management, this amounted to an expression of deep discontent.
Khan's attorney, Thomas Anthony Durkin, has said that Khan's desire to join a caliphate, while perhaps misguided, amounted to an expression of his religious freedom.
In a separate motion filed Friday seeking to dismiss the charge, Durkin wrote that Khan's desire to join an Islamic caliphate, while perhaps misguided, amounted to an expression of his religious freedom.
At a time when Russia's elections have become increasingly predictable and listless, that amounts to an unusual expression of discontent.
To Mr. Vollmann this landmark amounts to "an elitist expression of egalitarian longings," a naïve work that is "essentially an outcry of childish love, the love which impels a child to embrace a stranger's legs".
Google has fought attempts to make it remove websites that have proved to be infringing entirely from its search results, arguing that this would amount to an attack on freedom of expression.
The statement amounted to a powerful expression of European solidarity with the United States after a period in which trans-Atlantic relations have been strained by tensions over the Bush administration's policies in areas ranging from missile defense to the environment.
But did this "plan" for multilateralism as an expression of naked self-interest amount to a countervailing Kerry doctrine?
The agreement, which was endorsed by all of the world's industrialized nations except the United States, amounts to a remarkable, multicultural expression of fear and, to a somewhat lesser extent, penitence.
The comedian Rowan Atkinson made an outspoken and surprising attack on the discrimination case, saying it amounted to an "attack on creative free expression"; he said producers should have as much freedom to change presenter as they do to "change the colour of John Craven's anorak".
