Sentence examples for practices amount from inspiring English sources

Whether or not these practices amount to torture, they certainly constitute cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

China's trade practices amount to "the greatest theft in the history of the world".

An elderly housewife from Adachi-ku, one of Tokyo's poorest wards, complains that such practices amount to cheating.

Mr. Scruggs, for instance, promises to attack the validity of the patents themselves and to show that the company's practices amount to a violation of antitrust laws.

The N.A.A.C.P. has filed a class-action suit against many of the nation's largest banks, charging that such lending practices amount to reverse redlining.

The ICJ has required that practices amount to a "constant and uniform usage" or be "extensive and virtually uniform" to be considered binding.

They contended that many of the interrogation and detention practices amounted to torture.

On the currency issue, the Commerce Department refused to investigate allegations that China's currency practices amounted to an unfair subsidy.

Using rough assumptions, the Hall paper concluded the economic damage from Microsoft's practices amounted to overcharging about $10 for each copy of its Windows operating system.

In a statement, the office said that questions about Empire State's hiring practices amounted to an attempt to "create a scandal".

The judge, Shira A. Scheindlin of Federal District Court, ruled that the evidence submitted so far raised enough questions to allow a trial to go forward to determine whether the department's practices amounted to a pattern of race-based stops.