Sentence examples for cannot amount from inspiring English sources

Characters in the book do make such criticisms, but they cannot amount to blasphemy because they do not vilify God or the Prophet.

"It is clear that the right to be forgotten cannot amount to a right of the total erasure of history," she said.

While impressive in its variety and ambition, and moving in its evocation of so wide a collection of lives, this novella doesn't quite cohere, cannot amount to the sum of its parts.

The distinction between civil and punitive matters because the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause prohibits multiple punishments for the same offense; if a subsequent sentence is not punishment, it cannot amount to double jeopardy.

Such copying cannot amount to substantial copying of the text of The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail and the claimants have never said it does," Mr Justice Smith said.

That the bank is still 9% state-owned cannot amount to the public's right to CEO uxoriousness or not, anyway, at the same time that the once-dedicated shagger Boris Johnson is promoted to prime minister's understudy.

Our protocol cannot measure absolute amounts of proteins, or compare levels between different treatments.

But then these three kinds of abilities cannot conjointly amount to knowing what it is like either: if they did, then contrary to (a)—each of them would have to be a necessary condition for knowing what it is like.

More significant, he has said that the total for all the bills cannot exceed the amount he requested in his budget, $933 billion.

By law, once voters have passed a library budget, that amount cannot be eliminated, she said.

I've said many times, I just cannot defend the amount of sugar that children are eating.