Sentence examples for effect amount to from inspiring English sources

This would, in effect, amount to breaking up Endesa.Neither E.ON nor Endesa wants that.

"The export rebate cuts in effect amount to a revaluation of the yuan," China's currency, said Zhang Shuguang, director of the Unirule Institute, a private economics research center in Beijing.

"As far as my reputation is concerned, I can't take the risk of being on a show alongside people who, in effect, amount to animal serial killers," Morrissey said.

There is therefore a risk that the global economic consequences might be as severe as those which followed the demise of Bretton Woods, with higher interest rates and a drop in global output.If Mr Obstfeld's and Mr Rogoff's gloomier prediction turns out to be correct and the dollar falls by 40% or more, then this would, in effect, amount to the biggest "default" in history.

But another concern is clearly that it would in effect amount to yet more interference by the state in a religious mystery (baptism).

These traditional systems, as well as other local-level management frameworks, have been shown to rely on resource users' knowledge and expertise, which in effect amount to an adaptive management approach (Berkes and others 2000; Dietz and others 2003).

His career had in effect amounted to nothing.

One is the socio-legal institution, which in effect amounts to a tripartite contract between a man, a woman and the state.

The federal government is required to identify regulations that could have an economic effect amounting to more than $100 million, but people frequently misunderstand what that means.

His political achievement required ability, in effect amounting to genius, in several different fields, including administration and generalship besides the minor arts of wire pulling and propaganda.

This applies to live pathogens, but also to his manuscript which, in effect, amounts to an instruction how to make them.