Sentence examples for knowing amounted to from inspiring English sources

Not knowing amounted to the best excuse for not acting, especially when the imperative to do something was accentuated by the daily Serb bombardment of Sarajevo that began in 1992 and by an archipelago of Serbian concentration camps for Bosnian Muslims uncovered that year.

More soil was hidden in Red Cross food boxes, and some POWs basked on spread-out blankets knowing they were concealing what amounted to a beach.

She touted only products from companies that forked over $11,000 (the initial asking price, anyway) to be part of her back-to-school television "tour". But viewers in several of the cities would have had no way of knowing that Werner's pitches amounted to paid advertising, because their local news stations failed to meet their legal obligation to identify the segments as paid promotions.

The difference between knowing a little about your finances and knowing nothing can amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars over a lifetime.

That person is called the 'OEF/OIF program manager.' Knowing to ask for that person amounts to knowing the magic words for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But then these three kinds of abilities cannot conjointly amount to knowing what it is like either: if they did, then contrary to (a)—each of them would have to be a necessary condition for knowing what it is like.

Breton's novel begins "Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt'".

Raymont argues that mnemic, recognitional and imaginative abilities neither separately nor conjointly amount to knowing of what it is like to have a particular kind of experience.

Is it really plausible to claim that a primitively normative attitude towards the use one is disposed to make of an expression amounts to knowing (or grasping or recognizing) what the expression means?

Any sort of Social Studies, which, in these years, amounts to knowing where you live and who carries the mail, can be taken care of as part of the English program.

The two Michaels (Brown of FEMA and Chertoff of Homeland Security) made reassuring noises that they were on top of the situation, until it became obvious they weren't, at which point they denied ever knowing that Hurricane Katrina could amount to anything more than a lot of rain.