Sentence examples for amounted to a recasting from inspiring English sources

And in Blumenthal's view, the policies themselves were wise and constructive, expanding the economy, renovating the welfare state, improving educational institutions; it amounted to "a recasting of the national ideal".

It amounted to an execution".

Should this recasting of the College Boards come about— there are already indications that it may happen within five to 10 years it could amount to a quiet educational revolu tion.

It amounts to a whitewash".

That conclusion amounts to a repudiation of a central part of a strategy Senate Democrats settled on years ago in a private retreat where they discussed how to fight a Bush White House effort to recast the judiciary: to argue against otherwise qualified candidates by saying they would take the courts too far to the right.

In Bahrain, officials have tried to recast the narrative altogether by asserting that the protesters started the violence, while the government has imposed what amounts to martial law on a majority of the population.

According to Mr Ibish, this was simply a recasting of the anti-semitic Jewish banker stereotype.

The time, though, may have come to recast them in a leading role.

The implication is clear: in many instances, corporations recast operating expenses as nonrecurring charges and, to a lesser extent, recast nonrecurring income as operating revenue.

Typically, this doesn't change your interest rate; but because you have a smaller amount of principal, the recasting will give you a lower monthly payment with the idea that you'll pay off the remaining principal balance over the same term.

"It's like a spell that jumps from person to person, recasting itself as it goes.