Sentence examples for amount to state from inspiring English sources

Second, this would amount to state licensing.

Understandable, perhaps, but then they should say so and not pretend Leveson's proposals amount to state control of the press.

Doesn't putting these psychological insights, however well-meaning, into government policy amount to state manipulation of the people?

Most major newspapers have their complaints handled by Ipso, which has refused to accept recognition by the Press Regulation Panel, arguing it would amount to state regulation.

Her then culture secretary, Sajid Javid, told her it would amount to state censorship and an attack on freedom of expression.

David Cameron has backed plans to give Ofcom stronger powers to prevent the broadcast of "extremist messages" despite concerns from one of his own cabinet ministers that this could amount to state censorship.

And to those who repeat, without cease, that abortion rights amount to state-sanctioned murder, I would say: remember Becky Bell.

The state's laws amount to "state-sanctioned animal fighting," said Ms. Sinykin, who is also a senior attorney at a non-profit law center, Midwest Environmental Advocates.

Pete Pattisson reports that the practice may amount to "state-sponsored slavery", as workers receive almost no salaries in person during the three years they typically spend in the Gulf.

Thousands of migrant labourers from North Korea are toiling for years on construction sites in Qatar for virtually no pay – including on the vast new metropolis that is the centrepiece of the World Cup – in what may amount to "state-sponsored slavery".

During a February meeting in San Diego, Trace Urdan, a senior research analyst for the investment banking firm Robert W. Baird & Company, said state colleges and universities "amount to state-run enterprises and suffer from all the inefficiency and poor decision-making of Soviet-style factories".