Sentence examples for amount to demolition from inspiring English sources
This would amount to "demolition by neglect," the term preservationists use when owners allow properties to self-destruct.
City Councilwoman Gale A. Brewer and officials of Community Board 7 maintained that alterations covered by permits approved in January amounted to demolition.
The city has delayed permission to alter the West-Park Presbyterian Church on the Upper West Side -- which some preservationists consider worthy of landmark status -- after City Councilwoman Gale A. Brewer and the community board protested that the alterations amounted to demolition.
Clarke's plans amount to a demolition job of publicly funded law.
The latest spending cuts, he warned, will amount to "the demolition of public services in our country".
The critiques amount to a wholesale demolition of the Zito method.
Lord Lipsey said the plans for free personal care amounted to "a demolition job on the national budget" and told the Times Brown's announcement was like "an admiral firing an Exocet into his own warship".
In what amounted to a partial demolition, it lopped off the top three stories and divided them into a series of stand-alone structures.
Harmony Korine's woozy, sleazy joyride through the college-caper genre amounts to a sustained demolition job on the squeaky-clean image of its stars, dispatching Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens on a vertiginous tour of the fleshpots of Florida.
"I also got him to do a significant amount of demolition to the place — probably $50,000 worth — so we could build it out the way we wanted," Mr. Censits said.
