Sentence examples for amounted to a system from inspiring English sources

She said the way plastics were used globally and the huge leakage into the environment amounted to a system that was not working.

Informally, even before 1927, American broadcasters began to work out a set of rules for political access to the airwaves that virtually amounted to a system of private regulation of politics.

"How wide can I hold my eyes, how much can I try to see, knowing that I'll never see it all?" Hopelessness, she explained, incorporates 15 years of reading the newspaper daily, chatting with strangers and friends, and parsing how the myriad shortcomings of the West amounted to a "system".

The lawyers say the combination of the new housing and health checks with existing checks carried out by employers and educational colleges amounts to a system of identity checks for foreign nationals in Britain.

TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes said the current arrangement amounted to a "rigged system" where private rail firms got millions from the taxpayer.

Critics faulted the undergraduate system for giving applicants extra admission points for being black, Hispanic or American Indian, and criticized the law school's admissions procedures for what they said amounted to a quota system.

For years, McConnell responded to Kentucky's poverty and health care crises by directing millions of dollars in federal earmarks to various projects in the state, constructing what has amounted to a lottery system.

Many Harvard officials, Dr. Faust said, feared that cost was driving the choices students made about graduate school and careers and that it had created what amounted to a two-class system among Harvard undergraduates.

He supported the state attorney-general's argument that to change vote-counting procedures in the middle of a contest amounted to "a two-tier system [which] could lead Florida to having all of its votes, in effect, disqualified".

In politics, too, he did what few Italian leaders had ever done - uniting the Right to create what amounted to a two-party system.

But others, like Mr. Hajjarian, were exploiting fissures in the system -- above all, the emergence of an independent press -- to drive what amounted to a stake into the system's heart.