Sentence examples for amounts to playing from inspiring English sources

Rewarding the mediocre and the conventional, while overlooking the scrupulous and the innovative, amounts to playing the short game.

The use (or abuse) of milk by retailers as a loss leader amounts to playing with our food.

Allen has been on the practice squads of three teams and his N.F.L. game experience amounts to playing on a field-goal unit for three games.

Mr. Santorum said that the elimination of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy amounts to "playing social experimentation" with the military and vowed to reinstitute the policy if he were president.

This amounts to playing catch-up in ketchup.

Lack of supervision usually amounts to playing kickball in the street at midnight, not invading peoples' homes and stealing.

Clinton responded by stating that if defending reproductive rights and calling for equal pay amounted to playing the gender card, "then deal me in".

"The science is warning us" he said, and it was time for politicians to stop making promises that really amounted to playing politics with the people whose livelihoods depend on Murray-Darling water, and also with the environment.

They stuck with big acts doing their biggest hits, or indeed other people's: you could argue that amounted to playing it safe, but equally, if you've got to have Liam Gallagher, you might as well have him singing Wonderwall.

Rajoy, nevertheless, seemed dismissive during a party convention this year, calling Podemos "frivolous, incompetent populists"; he said a vote for the party would amount to "playing Russian roulette".

Johnson, on the other hand, didn't hesitate to set aside his public identity, such as it was, and readily embraced the idea of what amounted to playing Triumph's stooge in the special released early last month.