Sentence examples for anything that amounts from inspiring English sources

I am wary, though, of anything that amounts to appeasement.

At the same time Labour is beginning to marshall its forces against what it sees as the ideologically driven dismantling of the state and the idea that anything that amounts to planning at national level is bad.

Yet most Turkish Cypriots, though determined to resist anything that amounts to subjugation, are gradually coming to realise that, without a settlement, their slice of Cyprus will get steadily poorer than its neighbour.Mr Clerides has his work cut out to persuade his own Greek Cypriots to make the necessary concessions.

Popper was a somewhat paradoxical man, whose theoretic commitment to the primacy of rational criticism was counterpointed by hostility towards anything that amounted to less than total acceptance of his own thought, and in Britain — as had been the case in Vienna — he became increasingly an isolated figure, though his ideas continued to inspire admiration.

The one concrete sign of coöperation was on Syria, and it remained to be seen what, if anything, that really amounted to.

Fallaci's virtues are the virtues that shine most brightly in stark circumstances: the ferocious courage, and the willingness to say anything, that can amount to a life force.

Anything above that amount will earn 0.10 percent.

Companies worth €500 billion cannot finance anything like that amount.

The city is responsible for anything over that amount.

The half-full case holds that Sainsbury's isn't actually paying anything like that amount.

Unfortunately, the firm does not have anything like that amount of time.