Sentence examples for amounted to violations from inspiring English sources

The judge, Jack B. Weinstein, of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, said the "pitiless double abuse of these mothers" over many years amounted to violations of their constitutional rights.

The argument echoes Exxon Mobil's own statements a month earlier, when the firm said attempts to subpoena its internal documents on climate change were politically motivated and amounted to violations of its free speech. .

Knuckey added that the report's reference to attacks on fleeing staff and patients "may amount to violations of the laws of war, and require individualized investigations and responses from the US government".

"Any discrimination on basis of sexual orientation amounts to violation of fundamental rights".

However, other prescribed constraints are soft constraints and inability to achieve them will not amount to violation.

Most of the dead were summarily executed, the commission found, and at least 14 prisoners were wounded in what amounted to "grave violations of human rights".

The review that led to the full criminal investigations focused primarily on whether "unauthorized interrogation techniques were used by C.I.A. interrogators" and, if so, whether they amounted to criminal violations of statutes against torture or other measures, he said.

That, he said, amounted to a violation of the Constitution.

Publishing without awaiting the required review amounted to a violation, the official said.

Doing so over his objections amounted to a violation of his Fifth Amendment rights, they said.

He said "the harassment that is being carried out against Mexicans" in America amounted to a violation of human rights.