Sentence examples similar to amount to requests from inspiring English sources

He illustrates the financial pressures on even a successful playwright who occasionally found himself forced to borrow money from the lessees of public theaters to make ends meet (this essentially amounted to requesting advance payment for his next play, but then subsequently there was even greater pressure to produce).

Apple has said the request amounts to asking a company to hack its own device and would undermine digital security more broadly.

Leslie had earlier told a parole member that she had wrestled with writing a letter of apology because she thought "how I would feel if it had been my own mother and father -- not sure I would have wanted the perpetrator to have contacted me". In 1994 Leslie told The Washington Post that she had written dozens of apologies and never mailed them because they would amount to a request for a favor.

"I get a tremendous amount of requests to speak to people outside of my district.

The resolution amounted to a request that member states reject attempts by the US to arrest and prosecute Snowden.

But to voters pondering whether to make that second term happen, it amounts to a request for a presidential do-over — a tacit admission that the White House's first-term agenda has been less than successful, and a plea for a second chance to get things right.

That essentially amounts to a request to close the business.

Duncan's former deputies' Jan . 20response, disclosed Thursday, largely amounts to a request for more time and a promise to shuffle more paperwork between more offices at the U.S. Department of Education.

Of course, their requests amount to statements in themselves, and while many men just seem to want a last few bites of comfort food, others offer different messages.

Ms. Lubin attributes the increase in requests to soaring investor grievances in the wake of the credit crisis and says the 519 requests last year amount to a small number when considered in the context of total arbitration cases.

So far 17 states have passed such initiatives but those "successes" are non-binding so they amount to little more than polite requests that our elected officials give it the old college try.