Sentence examples for amount to so from inspiring English sources

Seen in this context, Pataki's insistence on not raising state taxes may represent a genuine fiscal policy decision or it may simply amount to so much political rhetoric.

James's sensitivity to the changing role of the country house over the course of a writing career that has spanned nearly half a century goes some way to explaining why her novels amount to so much more than detective fiction by numbers.

Forest scientists say that a new federal law may amount to so much smoke.

I've had more than one encounter with young scientists who believe that their work sells itself--or should, if employers weren't so dense--and that mental gyrations aimed at convincing others of your worth or keeping a positive outlook amount to so much wasted brainpower.

This would amount to so called lawful interception.

The conduct does not amount to so-called front-running, because Merrill placed its own trades after executing the customers' trades.

Mr. McCaw's planned investment in Iridium, which must be approved by a federal bankruptcy judge, would amount to so-called debtor in possession financing, or D.I.P. financing, to a company in Chapter 11 reorganizaiton.

Never, it might be said, has so much been written about what amounted to so little.

If not, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and the Williams sisters would not have amounted to so much in our culture.

Even for very good teams, the first month of the season often amounts to so much throat-clearing.

The only people who should be nervous are the coaches who will have to explain how all those headline-grabbing moves amounted to so little good news.