Sentence examples for measures amounting to from inspiring English sources

Many measures, amounting to a net saving over the forward estimates of $16bn, have been passed.

The organisation estimates that between 4% to 10% of global revenue is lost through base erosion and profit shifting measures, amounting to up to US$240bn annually.

First, they are huge — in Greece, we're looking at austerity measures amounting to 16 percent of GDP, the equivalent for the US of $2.5 trillion every year.

Consolidation measures amounting to between 5% and 6% of GDP are planned in France, Italy, Spain and the UK, while only a modest adjustment is likely in Germany and Austria.

The IMF said further measures amounting to an additional 2% of GDP will be needed by raising the corporate income tax rate from 10%to12.5%5% and the tax rate on interest income from 15%to30%0%.

On Tuesday, Mr. Papandreou met with opposition leaders, trying to win support for a broader program of additional measures amounting to €6 billion, or $8.45 billion, to reduce Greece's budget deficit to 7.5 percent of gross domestic product this year — from 10.5 percent in 2010 — despite double-digit unemployment and a deepening recession.

"The measures amount to a constitutional coup," said Teodoro Petkoff, who edits an opposition newspaper.

A BBC management spokesman said that taken together, those measures amount to a pay cut of nearly 25%.

Whether those measures amount to terrorism becomes a semantic, and political, argument.

The Interior Ministry, which oversees the police, denied that the measures amounted to censorship.

And this is the Cypriot story: the brutal EU measures amount to a German occupation that is depriving Cyprus of its sovereignty.