The phrase "amounts to action" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is equivalent to or results in a specific action or behavior.
Example: "His refusal to participate in the discussion amounts to action against the proposed changes."
Alternatives: "constitutes an action" or "is equivalent to action".
Under the pay law, inaction amounts to action, since it allows the White House recommendation on pay to take effect automatically.
While there is no contiguous process to carry the influence of the L-measurement outcome on events in the R-wing, the question of whether this influence amounts to action at a distance depends on the exact characterization of this term.
However, more variable effects of 4-AP were reported in optic nerve axons, with Foster et al. [ 45] reporting relatively minor effects (compared to those on unmyelinated axons) while Devaux et al. [ 32, 33] found a profound broadening of the action potential, suggesting that these channels contribute different amounts to action potential repolarization in different axons.
Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (1935) thought that quantum mechanics is incomplete and that the curious correlations between distant systems do not amount to action at a distance between them.
To Levy, what amounts to strike action from the player changes nothing in terms of the club's position.
"Shell's description of what has been achieved amounts to almost no action whatever," the groups said.
Some conservatives are skeptical of the push to name more women and minorities to the bench, arguing that it amounts to unjustified affirmative action.
Landlords "are attempting to use a procedural rule in a civil forfeiture proceeding to bring what amounts to an enforcement action... against Harborside," the 17-page ruling said.
The legal issue from the start was whether those favors amounted to "official action".
But others doubt that the move will amount to meaningful action.
"Many national security officials, however, say JSOC's operations are so similar to the CIA's that they amount to covert action.
