Sentence examples for declaration amounts from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Did his declaration amount to separatism?

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.

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".

He may not have known it and his decision to announce his retirement from one-day cricket before rather than after the tournament ended was contentious at the least, but Clarke's declaration still amounted to a hefty poultice on a gaping wound for cricket.