Sentence examples for grounds amount from inspiring English sources

Public hunting grounds amount to some 40 square miles (100 square km).

"The very fact that the machinery of criminal law is set in motion against citizens on frivolous grounds amounts to harassment that is inadequately mitigated by the eventual discharge or acquittal," Ms. Singhal's petition argues.

Although one basic value -- ending war on the Continent -- always lay behind the slow process of European integration, this blunt interference in a member country's national politics on essentially moral grounds amounted to a radical departure, suggestive of an embryonic European government.

James Eadie QC, for the home secretary, said that the radical cleric's application to stay extradition on medical grounds amounted to an abuse of process at the last moment.

There are "thousands of bodies underneath us" of the Ohlone tribe, he says, and construction on this sacred burial ground amounts to "a hate crime; we call it Guantánamo Berkeley".

But what grounding amounts to could be debated.

Losses on the ground amounted to eight fighters (two Spitfires).

Movement of soil into this void could result in up to 5 percent lost ground, an amount intolerable in urban work.

However, the Middle East is still required to leave 260bn barrels of oil in the ground, an amount equivalent to Saudi Arabia's entire oil reserve.

Joachim Burger, an anthropologist at the University of Mainz in Germany, says the authors are on firm ground: "The amount of data is huge and the interpretations are straightforward".

Researchers analyzed the effect of adding enough aerosols to block 2% of the sun's light from reaching the ground, the amount needed to offset a carbon dioxide concentration twice that found in the air before the Industrial Revolution.