Sentence examples for amount to policy from inspiring English sources

At the same time, he said, the two men have recently been issuing what amount to policy statements that are unlikely to inspire legions of new followers.

"Requiring insurance today and requiring it at a future point of sale amount to policy differences in degree, not kind, and not the sort of policy differences removed from the political branches," Judge Sutton wrote.

But, in a bizarre exchange with Labour's Paul Farrelly, he argued that he had not broken the policy, because Facebook's document did not amount to a policy.

To Palestinian leaders, such attacks amount to a policy of state-sponsored assassination.

Administration officials did express a willingness to let the inspections continue for a short time but said this did not amount to a policy shift.

Officials at the agency said the approvals did not amount to a policy change, since experiments to discover medical uses of marijuana had never been prohibited.

Mr. Sperling was careful to point out that the new approach did not amount to industrial policy, or an attempt by the government to pick winners and losers.

Many Chinese military officers are openly hostile toward the United States, convinced that its recent naval exercises in the Yellow Sea amount to a policy of encircling China.

Indeed, this is not meant to be, nor does it amount to foreign policy commentary.

For the North, the new nuclear program would amount to an insurance policy.

As all the world now knows, Judge Shira Scheindlin has ruled that the New York City Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy amounts to "a policy of indirect racial profiling" that violates the U.S. Constitution.