Sentence examples for may well amount from inspiring English sources

"There is a pattern of gross human rights violations that may well amount to war crimes," Mr Cordone said.

Susan Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations and designated hitter on Sudan, told me, "If this decision stands, it may well amount to genocide by other means".

If continued, it may well amount to a violation of the criminal statute against torture, defined as, among other things, "the administration or application … of … procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality".

This change would provide a penalty that may well amount to more than 16 or 20 points – but requires the opponent to do more than sit in their chair and nod to earn them.

After a weekend in which the Bush administration sent a top State Department official to a meeting in Geneva with an Iranian official, the North Korea meeting may well amount to last rites for the "axis of evil," the one that President Bush said in 2002 was "arming to threaten the peace of the world".

For one thing, Sudan has expelled humanitarian aid groups from Darfur, a move that Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, recently told Mr. Kristof "may well amount to genocide by other means".

But Dartmouth will inherit a large portion of his royalties, and its share of them, twenty or thirty years hence, may very well amount to a quarter of a million dollars a year — the equivalent in income of a six-million-dollar endowment.

Indeed, shortly after Sept. 11, the columnist Andrew Sullivan wrote that while most of America was ready to retaliate, "the decadent left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead -- and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column".

The decadent left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead -- and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column," is such a "disgusting diatribe" that it "condemns itself".

He warned after 9/11 in The Sunday Times of London that a "decadent left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead — and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column".

The storm dumped what may well be a record amount of heavy, wet snow in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.