Sentence examples for amounts to mutilation from inspiring English sources

Many would argue that performing unnecessary surgery on the genitals of such a young girl amounts to mutilation – although it was very much her choice.

Under s. 28.2(3), a change to the work's physical structure does not necessarily amount to a distortion, mutilation or modification of the work.

It amounts to nothing.

In an article also published in English, the magazine's UK correspondent said Britain's plans amounted to "wilful self-mutilation".

Furthermore, radiotherapy was said to reduce the amount of "mutilation" to a minimum.

Unlike Whites, Native Americans only evidenced pain inhibition in response to erotica, but no pain facilitation (disinhibition) to mutilation pictures.

The Conservatives' foreign affairs spokeswoman, Cheryl Gillan, welcomed the bill and condemned female genital mutilation as an "abhorrent practice" which amounted to "child abuse".

They become neurotic and can resort to self-mutilation to try to comfort themselves.

The cold war era definitions are crumbling before what amount to class-action petitions: Chinese migrants who say they are hurt by the one-child policy, women claiming domestic abuse or the fear of traditional genital mutilation.

Neither amounted to much.

Exports amounted to $593.4 billion.