Sentence examples for declaration amount from inspiring English sources

Did his declaration amount to separatism?

The vote for a resolution to disable the declaration amounts to dousing the flames.

Their declaration amounted to a wish list for a country starting from scratch, giving great weight to health care and education.

The deliberations began with a speech by Representative Norma Torres, of California, who argued that the President's emergency declaration amounted to creeping authoritarianism.

Against this history, some Spanish commentators said the declaration amounted to a recognition by ETA's commanders that the group had effectively been routed by the security crackdown.

Brushing aside government warnings that such a declaration amounted to a coup, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) announced its version of the results at a press conference in the capital, Harare.

His declaration amounts to a nice photo op and a golden opportunity to cast his lot with the PC pioneer now that it is thriving.

The grim declarations amounted to the most significant warnings of widespread industrial unrest against Government proposals so far.

"The G-20 declaration therefore amounts to saying 'assume a miracle' for global growth".

Instead they lumped the two sides together, in a declaration that amounted to "They're both as bad as each other".

But Kylie Evans, for the Victorian Electoral Commission, said the 20 specific occasions on which Rigoni claims VEC staff failed to take early voting declarations would amount to the "exception not the rule".