Sentence examples for amounts to keeping from inspiring English sources

Whether Faletau's £400,000 a year amounts to keeping a lid on it is a moot point, but upward pressure on wages is inevitable, particularly when competing with the monster that is already up and running in France.

The video monitor was setup about 4 5 feet from the endoscopist at or below the endoscopist's eye level [ 44]; usually this amounts to keeping the monitor above the bed rail on the other side of the patient.

At the moment these basically amount to keeping unmanned planes in sight at all times and away from people, buildings and other aircraft.

Mayor Bret D. Schundler of Jersey City, who is challenging him in the Republican primary, said Mr. DiFrancesco's property tax relief plan avoided any serious effort at reform, because it amounted to keeping income taxes high to reduce property taxes.

The guarantees that such private operators have received amount to "keeping a system based on the principle that the state should cover all risks, whatever the costs," said Duarte Schmidt Lino, a lawyer at PMLJ in Lisbon.

It's terrible on all counts; but the most offensive thing intellectually is the incredible fallacy of claiming that higher capital requirements for banks amount to keeping resources idle.

True, this would have been an easier call in the days when community outreach amounted to keeping new-born lambs warm or ladling soup (though there's precious few of us meeting even that threshold today).

"We invested a huge amount to keeping our prices the lowest in the sector.

The logical approach further allows an easy, systematic analysis of perturbations, which amount to keeping a variable to its lowest levels (loss-of-function experiment) of to its positive levels (gain-of-function experiment).

These mostly amount to keeping yourself clean and healthy.

It is also an endless source of fascination for my 1 1/2-year-old son, and I devote a considerable amount of energy to keeping it out of his tiny hands.