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Diderot was happy to indulge Rousseau's polemic, and did not initially realize that it amounted to a declaration of war on his own project.

It amounted to a declaration of their confidence that evil would endure, a faith in human weakness that is perhaps warranted and inarguably useful.

In short, Proposal 2 -- and every instance of the sort of rhetoric that aligns with it -- amounts to a declaration that setting a quota for whites of at least 75percentt is the American way.

It is a shocking document, not least because it amounts to an open declaration of war between the church's liberalizing and traditionalist factions.

But there are moments when the hyperbolic prominence of the work is such that it amounts to a kind of personal IPO, a direct declaration to the market: buy me.

Healthcare's hyperinflation has ignited the DIY Health Reformers to declare what amounts to a Declaration of Insurance Independence.

The platform amounts to a declaration of war on the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.

It might not seem like much, but against the horror of the past week, raising a glass of wine and turning up the radio amounts to a declaration of defiance.

Ms. Sotoudeh is one of at least seven human rights lawyers arrested in Iran over the past year, in what amounts to a declaration by the Islamist state that representing a political prisoner is in itself a political crime.

It would amount to a declaration of war, trumpeted the leader of the main Christian opposition party, Michel Aoun.

It amounted to an unofficial declaration of the convention's new receptiveness.