Sentence examples for amount to asking from inspiring English sources

Her entreaties to Tory amount to asking her former girlfriend to save her life; she goes from being a girl worthy of love to a girl who needs love but refuses to signal weakness.

We're making calls for diversity that amount to asking white men to please hire more women and people of color while we ignore the fact that theaters run by women and people of color are literally starving for funding.

All identifiability tests carried out in the present paper therefore amount to asking whether the investigated signaling models are identifiable at the literature parameter values plit.

Officials from both agencies said no decision was made about the amount to ask for.

Mr. Sanford said late Monday that he was still at work on his arguments and deciding on an amount to ask the jury to award in punitive damages.

(I'd need a government bailout, lol!) More importantly, why is $150,000 an appropriate amount to ask for, as Sony seems to suggest?

It's a modest amount to ask for these days, especially for a hardware startup, but the potential is there to be a major company — and more importantly, to have a real positive effect on groups that are frequently forgotten by Silicon Valley's vaunted innovators.

Jim plods from Congo to London to Barcelona to Gibraltar, in the Bond / Bourne globetrotting tradition, but his sleuthing amounts to asking an old friend (Ray Winstone, on cockney-geezer autopilot) to do all the investigating, and then sitting and listening while the rudimentary scenario is explained to him.

This amounts to asking a combination of the interactor and manifestor of adaptation questions.

Apple has said the request amounts to asking a company to hack its own device and would undermine digital security more broadly.

Opponents claim this amounts to asking the Supreme Court to establish a new constitutional right essentially contending that "gay marriage" is a completely separate entity than "traditional marriage".