Sentence examples for amount to control from inspiring English sources

Iran certainly has influence in these places, but that does not amount to control.

Last summer, for example, he promised to buy government bonds in unlimited amounts to control borrowing costs.

A 1998 audit of SBS-Agro by Arthur Andersen noted that the bank's 20percentt stake in Sobinbank amounted to "control or significant influence" over Sobinbank's activities.

So far, the E.C.B.'s declaration that it would buy bonds in unlimited amounts to control interest rates has been enough to calm markets.

This amounted to control of the west coast trade with western Asia and the Kalinga and Andhra trade on the east coast with Southeast Asia.

It doesn't amount to statutory control of the press, says the Guardian.

But Leveson told him that a statute giving legal recognition to the ombudsman's views would not amount to parliamentary control.

Understandable, perhaps, but then they should say so and not pretend Leveson's proposals amount to state control of the press.

I am looking forward to Grant Shapps saying to Eric Pickles: 'You are Hugo Chávez.'" Miliband said that his ideas did not amount to rent control because the market would still set the level of rent.

However the LGA said delivery of central government schemes did not amount to local control.

We are at least $3 billion short annually of the amount needed to control the disease, even though total resources for AIDS reached a high-water mark in 2013.