Sentence examples for amount to intervention from inspiring English sources

Premature recognition in a case of secession can amount to intervention in a state's internal affairs, a violation of one of the fundamental principles of international law.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that attacks on pro-Gaddafi forces amounted to intervention in a civil war, and were not backed by the UN resolution.

Duncan's policies, they say, have led to more testing -- and amount to quick interventions.

Across 2011 2013 (Table 3, Fig. 2), preclinical research now accounted 30.9% of investment, with comparable amounts awarded to intervention and product development studies (32.7%) and translational research (33.3%).

The report recommends 133 remedial measures that would amount to a sweeping intervention.

In what would amount to another explicit intervention by Europe to try to talk Israel out of the military option, the head of Britain's secret intelligence service was reported to have made a secret visit to Israel two weeks ago.

It amounts to an intervention by Unesco in the perennial debate – or verbal and commercial war – in the wine world over what makes the greatness of a great wine.

He also said he regretted that Spanish merchant shipping had been left out – the other nations believed this would have amounted to formal intervention into the civil war.

Its report on the change in the law is due out in March for adoption by the full Venice Commission, though Poland's government has already dismissed its opinion, pointing out that the visit amounts to an intervention of "non-elected people" into the governance of Poland.

In a stepped wedge design, such as the current study, communities contribute different amounts of time to intervention and control periods, making traditional measures of covariate balance between intervention arms difficult to use.

These scratchy, adrenalin-fueled interventions amount to a one-woman urban-beautification program.