Sentence examples for amounts to an execution from inspiring English sources

Falstaff's ouster amounts to an execution.

The prosecution alleged the incident amounted to an "execution" of a man who was hors de combat – out of the fight – and should have been treated with respect and dignity.

It amounted to an execution".

He said: "It amounted to an execution, a field execution.

The prosecution case is that it amounted to an execution, a field execution," he said.

During the court martial, prosecutor David Perry told the court the murder was "not a killing in the heat and exercise of any armed conflict... it amounted to an execution".

Police discovered 13 empty cartridges at the scene and determined that at least two guns were used in what amounted to an execution.

It contends that designating a United States citizen for killing outside of a war zone, without an imminent threat, amounts to an extrajudicial execution, and it disputes the notion that battlefield law applies far from Afghanistan.

It amounts to a whitewash".

Within minutes of full time, the president of SA Rugby, Mark Alexander, issued a damning statement, promising a review process, major overhaul and what amounted to a stay of execution for the current coach.

Long before Friday's drone strike, officials say, lawyers at the Central Intelligence Agency, the Justice Department and the White House painstakingly considered the legal justification for what amounted to the execution of an American citizen without trial.