Sentence examples for requirements amounted from inspiring English sources

A three-judge panel in Philadelphia ordered the hearings on allegations that the eligibility requirements amounted to purposeful discrimination, which the plaintiffs said adversely affected the number of black college athletes qualifying for athletic scholarships.

The United States attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., who had told the N.A.A.C.P. in July that the Texas law's requirements amounted to a poll tax, praised the ruling.

Mr Justice Blake then ruled that the financial requirements amounted to "a disproportionate interference with a genuine spousal relationship" and suggested that a threshold of £13,400, which was more in line with the national minimum wage, would be more appropriate.

The move on visas drew immediate criticism in the United States, where pro-immigration groups and organizations representing American Muslims said the new requirements amounted to profiling by religion or nationality, a shift to methods they called antithetical to American values.

As late as 1864, in the Atlanta campaign of the American Civil War, the Union army's average daily ammunition requirements amounted to only one pound (0.45 kilogram) per man, as against three pounds for rations; Confederate forces in that war were reported to expend, on the average, only half a cartridge per man per day.

Avinor estimates that the total investment cost for the regional airports of meeting the new requirements amounts to NOK 1.7 billion.

In his eyes such a requirement amounted to the state sanctioning abortions.

The United States Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business, which represents small employers, said the proposed requirement amounted to a new tax and would frustrate the creation of jobs.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which opposed passage of the law, known as Proposition 69, said in the suit that the new requirement amounted to "unreasonable searches and seizures" and was unconstitutional.

Bolt said the requirement amounted to the "subjugation of women" and said the ensemble looked "ridiculous" on the foreign minister, who was in Iran for the first high-level meeting between Canberra and Tehran in 12 years.

Precisely what the requirement amounts to is a matter of considerable scholarly debate, however.