Sentence examples for amounts to training from inspiring English sources

Gone should be the days of clients at large firms paying exorbitant fees for what amounts to training for highly paid junior associates.

Moreover, cajoling kids to like food and beverages that are associated with "cool" imagery amounts to training them to buy into the marketing of all the unhealthful stuff they'll be bombarded with for the rest of their lives.

We spend billions of dollars to train singers, dancers and actors, and insignificant amounts to train the people who employ them.

The work is at the near maximal intensity he might adopt in a prologue time trial, followed immediately by what amounts to weight training on the bike, a big-gear effort at low-pedal revolutions, at close to breaking point, all at an oxygen-deprived altitude between 1500m and 2,200m.

Republican Governors are attempting to dumb-down their public universities -- by cutting the social sciences and humanities -- to create what amounts to technical training centers that will supply local industry with skilled "follow-the-rules" workers.

The situation amounts to "a train wreck waiting to happen," Mr. Rubel wrote.

After all, they receive what amounts to an intensive training in tolerance and empathy.

They are exercising in what amounts to a private training camp.

But today, thanks to the 28C heat and school holidays, it is just me having what amounts to a personal training session.

In this way, the total energy allocated to training amounts to and is equally split between the TX antennas.

Charlton were thoroughly professional in what amounted to a training exercise.