Sentence examples for campaigns amounted from inspiring English sources

The Y.& R. Advertising duties, to create international campaigns, amounted to about 35percentt of the total account.

Their campaigns amounted to criticising the poor, who were merely trying to put food on the table, he said.Greens saw Mr Correa's decree allowing the sale of the fins of sharks "accidentally" caught in fishing nets as a bid to win the votes of some 200,000 fishermen in an election for a Constituent Assembly later this month.

The prohibitive costs of the U.S. military campaigns (amounting to more than $20 million that year alone), the scathing humanitarian criticism of the butchery at Sand Creek, and the general weariness after four long years of civil war led federal officials to sign peace agreements later in 1865 with a variety of Native American emissaries.

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.

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

Kenneth Allard, a former NBC military analyst who has taught information warfare at the National Defense University, said the campaign amounted to a sophisticated information operation.

Justice Burke told a reporter for Crain's Chicago Business that suggestions that she stay out of the matter because of her husband's links to the Chico campaign amounted to sexism.

McCarthy's anti-Communist campaign amounted to slandering prominent public figures on the floor of the Senate — where he was immune from civil prosecution — and his preferred targets were establishment icons such as Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State, whom he called "Red Dean," and General George C. Marshall.

Casualties during this first campaign amounted to 26 killed and 96 wounded.