But the inspector general concluded that General Smith's actions amounted to assault and battery and sexual harassment.
Encinia wouldn't have gotten kicked by Bland, an attack that he says in the video amounted to assault.
Taken together, however, they amount to an assault on reliable data that's necessary to judge the effectiveness of existing government programs and the need for new ones.
In fact, they amount to an assault on cronyism, which many, including Mr Rai, feel has got worse since the mid-1990s, when India began to be governed by coalitions.
People don't say: 'Come on, it was only a little bit of racism in the workplace.'" Sexual harassment, if it is serious enough to amount to an assault in the workplace, can be a criminal offence.
Some reports amount to sexual assault: My boss's boss, a married man, made several attempts to molest me at a Christmas party, including grabbing my breasts, pulling me towards him, slapping my bottom and trying to force unwanted kisses on me.
Blake v Barnard established a rule that conditional threats could not amount to an assault.
To Barber, the recent voting laws amount to an assault not just on blacks but on democracy itself.
An Illinois Senate committee approved restrictions Wednesday on semiautomatic weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, despite criticism from gun-rights groups that the measures go too far and amount to an assault-weapons ban "on steroids".
In the absence of specific legislation, a range of offensive behaviours such as child sexual assault (not amounting to rape), harassment, and exploitation for pornography were never legally sanctioned.
