Sentence examples for amounts to failure from inspiring English sources

This is an originally skeptic argument, that is employed by Academic and Pyrrhonean skeptics alike, to the effect that dogmatic philosophy amounts to failure because of the disagreements occurring in it (Cicero, Academica II.115, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians II.11).

Asked if not finishing first amounted to failure, he replied: "It is not success.

Anything less than a second place finish would amount to failure for him, and might seem him quit the race.

A number of Labour MPs have claimed that anything less than 450 gains in council seats would amount to failure for Corbyn.

But he lost both of those this season and was unable to take Real beyond the semifinals of the Champions League, and by his own admission, that amounted to failure.

For a system intended to turn out rehabilitated, newly upstanding citizens, these findings amount to failure.

The United States: The defending champion and FIFA's top-ranked team will no doubt head into France with the belief that any result short of its fourth World Cup title will amount to failure.

In the years since, she's watched what amounts to a failure boom take place in her industry.

"Counsel's conduct amounts to a failure to act diligently and in good faith and does not demonstrate the highest standards of professional conduct," judges at the tribunal said in the ruling.

It may be more politically expedient, but it really amounts to a failure of the imagination, and only serves to play into the new dire homonormativity.

So, if a particular opportunity was missed, does the failure to capitalise on the opportunity amount to a failure of professional duty?