Sentence examples for amount to death from inspiring English sources
Johnson said Channel 4 could stand alone in the digital era but that the gradual decline in revenues would amount to "death by a thousand cuts".
Although evidence of criminality was never a prerequisite for "neutralisation", many innocent victims of Cointrelpro still remain in prison today, serving terms that effectively amount to death sentences.
We have witnessed considerable public controversy in the past months over claims that the relatively benign end-of-life counseling provisions advanced by Republican Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia and Democratic Congressman Earl Blumenauer of Oregon amount to "death panels" -- assertions which everyone other than Sarah Palin now seems to recognize as patent nonsense.
WASHINGTON — An Internet radio host known for his incendiary views was arrested Wednesday in North Bergen, N.J., after federal officials charged that his angry postings about a gun case in Chicago amounted to death threats against three judges.
Mr Kristof also wants to say that good people like Mr Green are dying prematurely due to a lack of decent-paying work, and that this amounts to death by inequality.
The shameful state of rural education, health care and social welfare were brought into prime-time TV focus as the bodies of thousands of dead children were dragged from the rubble of Sichuan schools built on a base of what the Chinese call "tofu" concrete, chicken wire and unforgivable corruption, as builders grew wealthy producing what amounted to death traps.
But Abedini most likely will not be hanged, Sanei told The Huffington Post, because -- unlike charges of apostasy, which carry the death penalty -- charges of national security usually don't amount to a death sentence.
If so, it would amount to a death warrant.
For some, pretrial detention can amount to a death sentence.
For a Palestinian accused of cooperating with Israel's security forces, confession can amount to a death sentence.
Amid warnings from Tripoli that allowing Megrahi to die in prison would amount to a "death sentence", Bill Rammell, then a Foreign Office minister, passed the message to Abdulati Alobidi, Libya's Europe minister, during a meeting in Tripoli.
