Sentence examples for essentially amount from inspiring English sources

"This move... would essentially amount to confiscation of our brand in Australia".

Recent concerns about financing essentially amount to a question of confidence.

But she says the company's most popular styles have straight legs and fancy washes that essentially amount to "a worn-in look".

Many senators are torn between growing public concern about global warming and industry's contentions that carbon dioxide regulations are misguided, unwieldy and essentially amount to an energy tax.

In the context of public expenditure, however, these sums are small beans – they essentially amount to three or four stamps for each voter to mail out a ballot paper, a stamp-addressed envelope, and then a campaign leaflet or two.

Dennis Hopper's turn as a spaced-out hippie madman is (with some irony) the film's only false note – more annoying than anything else – and Brando's deranged murmurings about the absurdity of war, while fun, essentially amount to a lesser version of what we've already been shown.

It essentially amounted to: "Why is she there?

It essentially amounts to a labelling system that allows consumers to preference certain farming practices.

And it essentially amounts to this: People can choose what to eat and drink.

The offer essentially amounts to a big, one-time special dividend.

That group essentially amounted to Perry Capital, Yucaipa, and lenders led by Citigroup and Wells Fargo.