The phrase "amounts to a problem" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a situation or issue that can be classified or considered as a problem.
Example: "The lack of communication among team members amounts to a problem that needs to be addressed immediately."
Alternatives: "constitutes a problem" or "represents a problem."
That amounts to a significant problem, even in a country with a national budget of about $600 billion.
It is emphasized how it amounts to a control problem, which can be solved in a general way by some appropriate optimization approach.
Scariest is a Times article — featuring a photograph that suggests a rugby scrum but in fact shows viewers of the Mona Lisa, in the Louvre — pointing up what amounts to a math problem at European museums: the mass of the human body, multiplied by the allure of classic art works, divided by the space available.
In health care contexts where consent is at issue, this normally amounts to a decisional problem that is framed in symmetrical terms: either one consents to a given treatment option, or one refuses that same treatment option.
The problem amounts to a convex feasibility problem with a line search.
It is shown that the problem of deterministic, dynamic user equilibrium of parking traffic amounts to a fixed point problem with respect to the lot saturation times.
In an attempt to refute those who say this amounts to a long-term problem, but not a crisis, he put the case for acting now in household terms: 2018 is when your five-year-old would go to university; 2042 close to when your 20-year-old would retire.As a piece of salesmanship, this may well be effective.
Because this is the first time the dollar has weakened since China has become a big exporter, the falling dollar amounts to a double-dip problem for Japanese and European businesses.
The user equilibrium of parking traffic amounts to a fixed point problem with respect to the saturation times: when parking capacity exceeds demand volume then there exists an equilibrium state.
Thus the process of discovering novel variants amounts to a complex statistical problem, particularly if sequencing errors and other sources of noise are taken into account.
Putting aside for a moment the simplistic nonsense that reducing an overly generous tax concession amounts to a new tax, the problem with Abbott's coodabeen campaign is that many of those policies are also being considered by his own side.
