Sentence examples for amounts to merely from inspiring English sources
Yet, as she suggests, total urban water usage — including toilets, showers, faucets, washing machines, and lawn treatments — amounts to merely a fraction of the water that is used for agriculture.
"It is for this reason that the reduction in funding for the EFC programme is a serious handicap to successful implementation: to reiterate, the budget for the current EFC programme is €185.5m (down from €215m under the previous programme), which amounts to merely 0.0171% of the EU multiannual financial framework".
In fact, the original plains tepee had no religious or ceremonial significance, and this kind of decorating amounts to merely "glamorizing the past," said Linda A. Holley, the author of "Tipis, Tepees, Teepees," a guide to the history of tepees published by Gibbs Smith earlier this year.
6In quantitative terms, this exclusion is negligible since the stock of migrants from the EU-8 living in Luxembourg amounts to merely 0.4percentt in 2009.
The divergence of the heat transfer compared to a model with a steady inside temperature by metallic materials amounts to merely a few percent.
There were also some statistically significant differences in the distribution of the above responses between paid and non-remunerated donors (see Table 2): 79.4 per cent of the non-remunerated donors would donate their blood to anyone in need, while among the paid ones this figure amounts to merely 22.7percentnt.
But he took on directly and passionately Lord Prescott's claim that his election pitch amounted to merely pursuing core Labour voters and disaffected Liberal Democrat supporters: what political types call a "core vote strategy".
It has never recovered from the acrimony of his departure from Arsenal to Chelsea in 2006 and his acquisition of the less-than-affectionate nickname "Cashley" when he claimed he "almost swerved off the road in shock" when he discovered a new contract offer from the Gunners amounted to merely £55,000-a-week.
"I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher" (Morning Hours, p. 42 (translation slightly altered)/Gesammelte Schriften, 3/2, p. 61).
The labour and environment side accords never amounted to much, merely obliging each NAFTA country to respect its own laws.
Why should it be assumed that if we begin by looking at the standpoint of holding responsible, the philosophical controversy will amount to a merely normative one?
