Sentence examples for effect amounts from inspiring English sources

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

X.L., a Bermuda-based insurer, has probably gone furthest by offering to insure clients' profits and net worth, which in effect amounts to insuring their overall risk portfolio.

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

Looking at the complete price history of Mr. Steinberg's listing reinforces the idea that the "Rybolovlev effect" amounts to about 25 percent.

This in effect amounts to winning back Britain's opt-out from the social chapter, negotiated by John Major during the 1991 Maastricht treaty negotiations, and abandoned by Blair soon after 1997.

She's a doctor who's lived in Britain for the past 18 years, her partner is a British aeronautical engineer, but on 19 December last year, her brother, Andrei Sannikov, Belarus's most credible opposition leader, and a presidential candidate, was beaten up, arrested, and is being held in a KGB jail awaiting what in effect amounts to a show trial.

His career had in effect amounted to nothing.

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

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.

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.

"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.