Sentence examples for amounted to closing from inspiring English sources

At first, the testing issue amounted to closing loopholes to the out-of-competition rule and streamlining it across all sports and continents.

This change amounted to closing the last chapter of the Greenspan era at the Fed, which began shortly before the stock market meltdown in 1987, propelled the economic boom of the 1990's and endured through the shocks of terrorist attacks, corporate accounting scandals and the still-unfinished war in Iraq.

In 2008 alone, carbon credit transactions amounted to close to $7 billion, it said.

The soft money collected in the latest election cycle amounted to close to half a billion dollars -- enough, one would think, to satisfy any fund-raiser or political party for some time to come.

This amounts to closing down opponents, which in another language becomes "gegenpressing".

Were the abatements not in place, the revenue generated for the same properties in fiscal 2001 would amount to close to $100 million.

The ITT's oil is crucial to help the smallest OPEC country escape poverty, he said, adding that only "one-thousandth" of the park would be affected by extraction of the heavy crude oil, which is thought to amount to close to a billion barrels, or 20% of Ecuador's reserves.

It has been suggested that SAFE's equity investments abroad may already amount to close to $100 billion.

The deal, which amounted to $315 million, closed on Monday of this week.

Cumulative measures over the three-year period amount to close to 10% of GDP in Greece and Portugal and 8% in Ireland.

The portion of all stock trading taking place away from the public exchanges hit new highs over the last few weeks, amounting to close to 40 percent on several days, up from an average of 16 percent in 2008, according to Rosenblatt Securities.