Sentence examples for campaign amounts from inspiring English sources

In that case, the Justices found that money is speech — that contributing to a political campaign amounts to a protected activity under the First Amendment.

Some are claiming, however, that the campaign amounts to a thinly veiled attack on multiculturalism in the capital of the European Union, with undertones of Islamophobia.

John McCain's economic vision, as he has laid it out during the campaign, amounts to a slightly altered version of Republican orthodoxy, with tax cuts at the core.

The deportation campaign amounts to the first large-scale effort to deport people who fled violence from drug wars in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Belize.

Perhaps even more than Washington, they are keenly sensitive to accusations in some Muslim countries that this campaign amounts to an assault on Islam.

But his renewed emphasis in recent days on paying down the national debt, something he rarely discussed during the presidential campaign, amounts to a tacit acknowledgment that Mr. Clinton's repeated calls for "fiscal discipline" were politically effective.

Porter lost several gunboats, and the campaign amounted to a costly debacle.

A university vice president — a largely unknown personage whose campaign amounted to some posters — collected three times as many votes.

The commission also concluded that the military's scorched earth campaign amounted to genocide against the Mayas.

It turned out that Ms. Onyango had made small contributions to Mr. Obama's campaign, amounting to $265, but the campaign had returned them.

The ferocity of the airstrikes provoked rage in Gaza, where Hamas said the campaign amounted to war and promised a harsh response.