Sentence examples for president amount from inspiring English sources

"I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them...That's all the powers of the president amount to .In 1960, as Richard Neustadt wrote his classic textbook, "Presidential Power", he took these remarks to heart.

By the Bush campaign's estimate, Mr. Clinton's spending proposals when he first ran for president amounted to $800 billion over 10 years.

"Removing Medicare from the accountability of Congress and the president amounts to an abdication of duty that would risk the health care of millions of America's seniors".

Ryan's defense of the president amounted to: "He's just new to this".

Most proposals in the Senate bill supported by President Obama amount to variations on the current system of regulation.

The exceptions to this rule of stagnation – the creation of a background check database following the Virginia Tech shooting and a litany of executive actions taken by President Obama – amount to cold comfort for reformers.

He argued that the asylum offer made by Nicaragua's president, Daniel Ortega, amounted to grandstanding, hedged by a caveat that the offer stood "if the circumstances permit".

The populist pitch, which did not include any images of former President Bill Clinton, amounted to an early acknowledgement that under President Barack Obama improvements in the economy have not reached everyone.

For more than a decade, the agency — using suitcases, backpacks, even plastic bags — has made monthly cash payments to the offices of President Hamid Karzai amounting to tens of millions of dollars.

As for the Democrats, many experts counted Bill Bradley out only a week ago, but his close showing against Vice President Gore amounts to a license to prolong his challenge despite the animosity of the party's Washington establishment.

The declaration, drafted in part by President Klestil, amounted to a bizarre list of democratic commitments and mea culpas for the prospective government of a modern European state to be signing.