Sentence examples for industry amounts from inspiring English sources

Several other cities' lawsuits, Mr. Keane pointed out, have already been dismissed by the courts because the judges did not accept the evidence or a new legal theory that the cities are trying to use: that the gun industry amounts to a public nuisance, like an industrial polluter, because it supplies guns to criminals.

The flurry of activity, including a $15 billion federal aid package for the industry, amounts to little more than triage until more permanent plans can be laid.

Talking up the prospects of the site, Figar says that the Polish wedding industry amounts to approximately 0.4% of GDP, which is similar to that of more developed markets, such as the U.S.

Asked to explain how a meeting between the government agency and a critic of the for-profit industry amounts to proof of a conspiracy, Sloan said only that Eisman was unfit to offer advice on the subject.

The World Bank reckons that proposed subsidies for the car industry amount to $48 billion.

What's more, charges snatched by the industry amount to more than the tax relief.

Mr Salmond claims investment in this industry amounted to £13.1 billion ($21.3 billion) between 2010 and 2013.

He decreed that more than a million impoverished coconut farmers must pay a levy, supposedly to improve the industry, amounting to $216m.

The imposition of extra taxes on the industry amounted to nothing less than a "constitutional deviation" warned Theodore Veniamis, the president of the Union of Greek Shipowners.

It had claimed that the practices of the industry amounted to a public nuisance because they permitted guns to fall into the hands of criminals.

It claimed that the practices of the gun industry amount to a public nuisance -- a widespread intrusion on public health and safety -- because they permit guns to fall into the hands of criminals.