The phrase "amounts to deception" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing actions or statements that are misleading or dishonest in nature.
Example: "The way he presented the facts amounts to deception, as he omitted crucial information that would change the context."
Alternatives: "constitutes deceit" or "is tantamount to dishonesty."
This amounts to direct deception through omission.
What his career really shows us, though, is the looming exhaustion of the conservative intellectual system; its hopeless addiction to dusty, crumbling clichés; and a blindness to the reality of conservative power so persistent and so bizarre that it amounts to self-deception or, in Zinsmeister's case, delusion.
It added: "This amounts to a deliberate deception by omission".
Today, Johnson wrote: "As you know, I was extremely angry at the liberties you took with your corporate credit card, but last week I made the essential distinction between behaviour that is crass and anything that amounts to dishonesty or deception.
The SPD's general secretary, Yasmin Fahimi, welcomed the endorsement, saying: "Anything else would have amounted to a deception of the electorate".
Organisations do not have to commit huge amounts of resources to deception systems to slow down and thwart hacker gangs, said Kelly Shortridge from the security arm of defence firm BAE.
In a letter to Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Schakowsky says that such deception amounts to "a possible violation of the National Security Act and, at a minimum, a blatant disregard of this committee's oversight authority".
The police's recent involvement in the case followed intense pressure for action – including from the head of the Law Society, Desmond Hudson, who said Wonga's "dishonest activity" could amount to blackmail and deception.
Depending on the precise circumstances of what has happened, that could amount to blackmail and deception, as well as offences under the Solicitors Act 1974 and Legal Services Act 2007".
