Sentence examples for officials amount from inspiring English sources

The briefings, according to foreign diplomats and some American officials, amount to a tacit admission by the United States that it is gradually backing away from a 2007 National Intelligence Estimate.

In recent bribetaking cases involving senior officials, amounts have been much larger.

The curt response from Chinese officials amounted to, "Mind your own business".

Eli Bardenstein, writing in the Israeli daily Ma'ariv last week, said a series of visits by senior European officials amounted to a diplomatic blitz on Mr. Netanyahu's office.

Last week, the European commission ruled that the company's sweetheart tax deal with Dutch tax officials amounted to unlawful state aid.

Italy's accounting court estimates corruption among public officials amounted to €60bn (£51.5bn) last year, while the Bank of Italy said that as much as €150bn in dirty money is laundered every year.

A recent study by the World Bank found that in two poor states in India where the financial system is largely controlled by the government, borrowers paid bribes to officials amounting to between 8% and 42% of the value of their loans.

The intention of highlighting the plight of minority women is not to obscure the broader suffering of religious minorities in Iraq, which according to UN officials amounts to genocide.

The official amount of snow for any New York storm is decided by the National Weather Service, based on the accumulation in Central Park.

The official amount of the transaction has not yet been released, our sources are telling us it's somewhere around 20 to 30 million euros.

It was almost as if he didn't exist, which, for a Confucian official, amounts to a state of grace.