Sentence examples for amounting to not from inspiring English sources

Beyond Washington, many states and some cities have military conversion commissions, but here too the spending has been scattered, amounting to not much more than $20 million, according to Michael Closson, director of the Center for Economic Conversion.

In jail people are only worth their value and sometimes that can be reduced to amounting to not much more than a drag of a smuggled cigarette.

But Walmart, the world's largest retail chain, was banking on the labor actions amounting to not much in the face of enormous consumer demand for what it provides best: a wide array of products at some of the very lowest prices available.

His answer was long and amounted to not many.

And the skeptic is allowed too easily to conclude that it all might amount to not very much.

That would amount to not millions, but billions of machines, they added.

On closer examination it may amount to not much more than a currency move.

They amount to not a lot more than media events.

Her remains, which amounted to not more than 15000 t, were sold for final demolition on 30 September 1958 for 226,117,000 francs.

This, Elliot said, amounts to not caring about risks rather than not appreciating risks.

To the Israelis, reform amounts to not-so-subtle code for replacing or marginalizing the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat.