The phrase "amount to behavior" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how certain actions or situations can be interpreted or equated to specific behaviors.
Example: "His constant late arrivals amount to behavior that shows a lack of respect for others' time."
Alternatives: "equate to behavior" or "translate into behavior".
The issue is not just whether Intel's tactics against A.M.D. amount to illicit behavior.
ON a Thanksgiving Day when too many college students don't seem to realize that celebrating a football victory can amount to criminal behavior and when too many big-name athletes are listed on police blotters, sports' little corner of the world has not only people to be thankful for, but also a horse.
PAGE A21 JUDGE CONDEMNS STING OPERATION A Brooklyn judge issued a stern denunciation of a mother's attempt to overturn her son's murder conviction, saying her covert efforts to elicit incriminating statements from a juror in her son's trial amounted to "vigilante" behavior.
A Brooklyn judge on Wednesday issued a stinging condemnation of a mother's attempt to overturn her son's murder conviction, saying her covert efforts to elicit incriminating statements from a juror in her son's trial amounted to "vigilante" behavior.
Caldbeck is currently on an indefinite leave from the firm after The Information published details of what amounts to predatory behavior, publishing the stories of six women who had been in contact with Caldbeck in a professional capacity.
It said legal recognition for gay and lesbian couples would amount to "approval of deviant behavior, with the consequence of making it a model in present-day society".
Considering that there is no specific amount to show the mechanical behavior of joint, using statistical analysis is essential.
Various behaviors that amount to taking advantage of the NHIS (moral hazard behaviors) were disclosed by participants.
In Pokora, Justice CARDOZO noted that the problems springing from the grade-crossing rule emphasized "the need for caution in framing standards of behavior that amount to rules of law" (id., at p 105).
Allen J. Frances, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University who has worked on the D.S.M., has said that the new definitions amount to "the medicalization of everyday behavior" and will create "false epidemics".
