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The phrase "amounts to harassment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing behavior or actions that are considered to be harassment.
Example: "The repeated unwanted messages he sent her clearly amounts to harassment, and she felt compelled to report it."
Alternatives: "constitutes harassment" or "is considered harassment."
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Tell me how that amounts to harassment.
But BPAS reports that the cameras have been turned on patients, in a tactic that amounts to harassment.
This act makes it a criminal offence to pursue a course of conduct which amounts to harassment of another person, where that person knows (or ought to know) that the act amounts to harassment (which can include alarming a person or causing them distress).
"The very fact that the machinery of criminal law is set in motion against citizens on frivolous grounds amounts to harassment that is inadequately mitigated by the eventual discharge or acquittal," Ms. Singhal's petition argues.
Exposing yourself in front of somebody else in public, for example, is already a crime under section 66 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, while the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 makes it an offence to engage in a course of conduct you know, or ought to know, amounts to harassment of another person.
They write: "We are surprised by the recent acts by officials of your government against our colleagues at the Guardian and deeply concerned that a stout defender of democracy and free debate like the United Kingdom uses anti-terror legislation in order to legalise what amounts to harassment of both the paper and individuals associated with it".
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WikiLeaks condemned the court order, saying it amounted to harassment.
Ibru never denied visiting the Ferdinand home but argued her actions did not amount to harassment.
If you visit too frequently this could amount to harassment and lead to your criminal prosecution.
But civil rights advocates argued that the visits amounted to harassment.
Ibru never denied visiting the Ferdinand home but argued that her actions did not amount to harassment.
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