Sentence examples for amount to regime from inspiring English sources
But that would amount to regime change.
Some UN member states, Brazil among them, felt that the Libyan mission went far beyond its mandate to "protect civilians" and amounted instead to regime change.
After the government ordered ministries to find an extra €5bn (£4.3bn) in savings last week, Hollande is trying to spell out to voters that this increased "rigour" in trimming France's public spending does not amount to a punishing regime of "austerity" that will damage public services.
Though he exaggerates in suggesting that policies like Quebec's enforced egalitarianism in health care or Vermont's small-town zoning preferences amount to full-blown regimes of oppression, "crammed down the throats" of dissenters, they are real infringements on individuals and cannot to be dismissed simply by invoking the will of the majority.
But it is clear that some Arab states remain queasy about endorsing what may amount to a programme for regime change.Others worry that a prolonged or fiercer aerial siege could cause civilian casualties, and an angry popular backlash, building on deeply ingrained distrust of Western intentions.
The Commission is investigating whether the tax regimes of the EU nations amount to state aid.
A jumble of human-rights regimes would be a mess.Yet the legal consequences of abolition might not amount to much.
"It amounts to an attempt at regime change.
Under these circumstances, the push for reunification amounts to a call for regime change.
Nothing can obscure the fact that Eritreans are being terrorised and trapped into what amounts to enslavement by a regime that imposes tyranny, cruelty and oppression.
