Sentence examples for amount to thought from inspiring English sources

But demanding a trial in these circumstances, where someone like Mr. Padilla would almost surely be found guilty, carries a high cost for civil liberties: it would stretch the meaning of already elastic concepts like criminal conspiracy to the point of creating what would amount to thought crimes.

He warns that the introduction of what amounts to thought crime could do more harm than good.

"The government's position that one can be locked up for decades for expressions of political positions on the telephone," he said, "amounts to simple thought control".

But Khan's lawyer, Thomas Anthony Durkin, told the judge that the government was prosecuting Khan for what amounted to the "thought crime" of rejecting America and supporting the establishment of an Islamic homeland.

All of these little touches amount to a well-thought out and executed camera experience.

The novel is nearly 400 pages of what amount to Frank's thoughts on life, love, and living.

It also became clear early on that some jurors believed that much of Mr. Blagojevich's crass political talk — captured in hours of secretly recorded phone calls — amounted to dreamy thoughts of what he might gain, not criminal demands.

Where the charts fit in to that, I don't give any huge amount of thought, to be honest with you.

Instead, he's given a fair amount of thought to both the legalities of what Russia is doing as well as to what he's ultimately hoping to gain — or willing to accept — in the end.

"We're dealing with adversaries who, tactically, organizationally, and strategically, have given the same amount of thought to terrorism as we have.

He's also possessed of a libido as boundless as his social ambitions, and he devotes a remarkable amount of thought to the state of his "privities" whenever a skirt swishes by.