Sentence examples for books amount from inspiring English sources

Still, a surprising number of gift books amount to the equivalent of a T-shirt featuring a famous logo.

The books amount to an archiving of an archive: they are an attempt to create a permanent physical record of a trove of important documents that MOMA, as the show implies, has abandoned in its aggrandizing ambitions.

Immediate Family: Hilton Als talks to Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts – and "the poet who writes prose; the memoirist who considers the truth specious; the essayist whose books amount to a kind of fairy tale," in the New Yorker.

It's Nelson's articulation of her many selves — the poet who writes prose; the memoirist who considers the truth specious; the essayist whose books amount to a kind of fairy tale, in which the protagonist goes from darkness to light, and then falls in love with a singular knight — that makes her readers feel hopeful.

Wiley claimed that Kirtsaeng's unauthorized importation of its books and his later resale of those books amounted to an infringement of Wiley's §106(3) exclusive right to distribute as well as §602's related import prohibition.

Alec's own internal records of its membership states that it has 1,810 state legislators on its membership books – amounting to almost a quarter of all elected representatives at state level across the nation.

It appears from Document Number 176-PS, discovered by the United States Army, a copy of which I submit as Exhibit Number RF-1325, thet the value of the books amounted to about thirty or forty million Reichsmark.

The amortized cost of U.S. government-related bonds on Berkshire's books amounted to just under $6 billion, compared to $12.5 billion in 2002.

The justices let stand lower court rulings in favor of Mountain View, Calif.-based Google and rejected the authors' claim that the company's digitizing of millions of books amounts to "copyright infringement on an epic scale".

Democrats also suggested that the evolving bid to make permanent all the temporary breaks currently on the books amounted to a ruse to make cuts to social programs later on.

While print books, both fiction and nonfiction, still make up the bulk of most library collections — e-books amount to to less than 2 percent of many collections in part because some publishers limit their availability at libraries — building renovation plans rarely include expanding shelf space for print products.