Sentence examples for amounted to extermination from inspiring English sources
It found the Syrian government carried out "massive and systematised violence" in its prisons and detention centres which amounted to "extermination".
That will involve mass killing: a UN report into Mr Assad's rule, and treatment of prisoners, concluded that his policies thus far amounted to the calculated "extermination" of all those who oppose him.
"The Government has committed the war crimes of murder, cruel treatment, torture, rape, sexual violence, and outrages upon personal dignity," said investigators," adding that "there are reasonable grounds to believe that the conduct described amounts to extermination as a crime against humanity".
The charity says this policy amounts to an extermination, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
UN investigators said in February that the reported killings of detainees amounted to a state policy of "extermination" of the civilian population, and a crime against humanity.
Exports amounted to $593.4 billion.
Neither amounted to much.
In 1941 this policy changed from expulsion to extermination.
Why we let ourselves be led to extermination?" he demands.
His great-grandmother herded to extermination on a train to Auschwitz.
