Sentence examples for election amounts from inspiring English sources

In a fifth year of recession, the election amounts to a rejection of the EU-IMF austerity programme that the two parties had accepted.

"Ignoring the results of the 1990 election amounts to insulting the people and disrespecting the people," she said on May 27. "We, the National League for Democracy party, stand firm for implementation of the results of the 1990 election".

Nicola Sturgeon has said that "dramatically changed political circumstances in Scotland", which saw the SNP win 56 out of 59 seats in the general election, amounts to "a mandate for substantial further powers beyond those recommended by the Smith process" and thus contained in the draft Scotland bill.

The flow of money into politics is rising, already bucking its 100-year trend: campaign spending for the 2008 election amounted to 0.037 percent of the nation's output, up from 0.031 percent in 2000.

It was the ninth such trade action of Mr. Obama's administration, though Mr. Romney said the new filing, coming so close to the election, amounted to a political stunt.

Friday's indictment accusing 13 Russians and three Russian entities of interfering in the 2016 presidential election amounted to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's first official shot at Moscow.

And Ms. Abdel Fattah insisted that the Muslim Brotherhood, whose political party won the post-Mubarak elections, amounted to a foreign-backed terrorist group.

The problem with this strategy was that "change" meant wildly different things to different people, and neither of these elections amounted to a mandate for any discernible set of choices.

When the only place to gather is the mosque, when "secular" equals Western-backed dictatorship and when "elections" amount to a rigged farce, the consolation of the Islamist cause grows.

Such appointments would reinforce a widely held view among political analysts that the elections amount to a charade in which Myanmar's top generals simply exchange army fatigues for civilian clothes without altering the nation's power structure.

For many, the elections amounted to a referendum on the Rawlings era, during which one of Africa's most colorful leaders assumed cult status in Ghana despite his sometimes ruthless rule.