Sentence examples for amounts to being from inspiring English sources

Q: So the new bit amounts to being tougher on those at the top?

"He's naïve and idiosyncratic and that amounts to being dangerous," Mr. Bolton said.

More and more, success in investment banking amounts to being able to game the rules and get capital.

(An EMI spokesman said that Mr. Alagna was offered a new contract but rejected it, which amounts to being dropped).

What Mr. Badii is asking amounts to being an accomplice to a crime, since suicide is forbidden in the Quran.

But Mullan was more cautious about whether this award amounts to being declared the very best English novel of the last 40 years.

In "A Really Good Day," she lays out her and Chabon's "harm-reduction approach" to parenting, which amounts to being open about risks and pleasures.

What especially annoys me is when I'm asked repeatedly -- which amounts to being urged -- to order the wine before I've had a chance to look at the menu or before I've had a chance to discuss it.

And this banker has some harsh things to say about office politics and "real banking": "More and more, success in investment banking amounts to being able to game the rules and get capital.

The only thing separating a robber and perhaps thousands of dollars in cash is a clerk whose training for such situations amounts to being told, "Don't be a hero".

The discussion now is focused on whether wearing a protective suit and being touched by her crew members as they taped her in the water amounts to being "assisted".