Sentence examples for arrangement amounts from inspiring English sources

Europe's competition regulator said the arrangement amounts to an abuse of De Beers dominant position in the market for rough diamonds.

Critics argue that the payment arrangement amounts to a substantial tax break for a project that will bring new residents who could strain schools and infrastructure.

John C. Coffee Jr., a securities law expert at Columbia University, says the arrangement amounts to a huge and odd brokerage fee.

The question of whether such an arrangement amounts to outright government aid to parochial schools and thus violates the Constitution's separation of church and state will be taken up by the United States Supreme Court this month.

For Russia, the new arrangement amounts to considerably less than full membership, though it will now have a say on many questions important to it and the prestige of association with the West's pre-eminent military alliance.

Not everyone is convinced Trump's business arrangement amounts to a constitutional violation.

The secrecy and deception inherent in the arrangement amounted to a kind of moral corruption.

The memo, written by a Paul Hastings associate, advised that the arrangement amounted not to a "business opportunity," but to an investment and thus could face regulatory problems.

TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes said the current arrangement amounted to a "rigged system" where private rail firms got millions from the taxpayer.

With assumptions that Citgo, if sold, could be worth between $6 billion and $9 billion, the arrangement amounted to a sweetheart deal — and, in addition, the Russians had managed to lay claim to almost half of a major U.S. oil giant.

But commentators said that the arrangement amounted to a diplomatic finesse by the royal household, signaling that the queen was not ready to travel to Normandy as a last-minute invitee, but was keen, too, to put an end to the controversy over the affair.