Sentence examples for really amounting from inspiring English sources

Foucault viewed modern bureaucratic institutions as exuding a spirit of rationality, scientific expertise, and humane concern but as really amounting to an arbitrary exercise of power by one group over another.

"What it really amounts to is exploration," the president said.

"What this really amounts to is vertical integration," he said.

Eurobond ReprintsBut does France's new approach really amount to non-interference?

Some Asians remain unsure about whether the strategic, military pivot really amounts to much.

He started to question whether the "passion to serve humanity" really amounts to anything.

America's so-called "tax-free e-commerce" really amounts to mass tax evasion.

But the Knicks have already been decked several times in what really amounts to sparring sessions.

But she never really amounted to anything until she moved to Columbia studios.

Political leaders debate what really amounts to the "cruel, inhumane and degrading" treatment of prisoners.

But does that really amount to "transformation," as Erskine would have it?