Sentence examples for fact amount from inspiring English sources
If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation".
Unless the court finds otherwise, unless the judge declares that some of the other payments in fact amount to hidden transfer fees (or hidden wages), Barcelona can continue to insist on a €57.1m fee.
He promised "no further changes to this regime for the rest of this parliament or the next".The new measures in Mr Darling's budget in fact amount to little.
In a 2007 decision, he upheld Michigan's 1996 voter identification law – which does offer voters the ability to sign an affidavit affirming their identity instead of showing photo identification – calling it a "reasonable, nondiscriminatory restriction" and arguing that identification did not, in fact, amount to a poll tax.
Standard & Poor's, the credit rating agency, said on Monday that a plan promoted by France for French and German banks to roll over their large holdings of Greek government debt would in fact amount to a default by Greece, raising questions about how the indebted nation could qualify for a much-needed second bailout.
Jeffrey Callison, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, rejected the argument that Brown's approach lacks substance, insisting that the policy does, in fact, amount to a "significant sentencing reform".
They say Facebook's failure to disclose that fact amounted to securities fraud and should invalidate the agreement.
"That Mr Taylor should serve his sentence in a prison, culturally and geographically thousands of miles from his home, should be considered a factor in mitigation as it in fact amounts to exile," Griffiths said.
By the end of the one-hour hearing, the investigating prosecutors concluded that Mr. al-Ghozi's latest statement was not truthful and in fact amounted to the words of the police.
When a group of plaintiffs kicked up a song and dance, the manufacturer agreed to a cash settlement which was set to cost $1.3m but is in fact amounting to just $30,000 because nobody seems bothered enough to claim.
What if, the production dares ask, the process of Kate's "taming" in fact amounts to a softening of those very defenses that this same firebrand has spent a lifetime erecting?
