Sentence examples for speaking amounts from inspiring English sources

When labor unions, some of whose members enjoy coverage in these plans, learned about this punitive levy they objected loudly, prompting Pelosi to drop the idea, which, broadly speaking, amounts to taxing the upper middle class to provide benefits for the lower middle class.

In the most recent, at the end of the Cretaceous, the dinosaurs were wiped out, along with the mosasaurs, the pterosaurs, the plesiosaurs, the ammonites, and two-thirds of all families of mammals, all in what, geologically speaking, amounted to an instant.

Yet the portion of the meeting where investors could speak amounted to about 15 minutes of an almost four-hour meeting.

Sticking a microphone in front of people and coaxing them to speak amounted to little more than an extended vox pop.

Without the use of an effective anesthetic as the first drug in the protocol, it was generally agreed, the prisoner would feel the pain of suffocation resulting from the second drug as well as a severe burning sensation produced by the third drug, all while being unable to move or speak, amounting to a level of suffering that would constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

Practically speaking, that amounts to an eviction notice, especially during a theater shortage.

Roughly speaking, that amounts to to the station's being charged for the number of Web listeners who tune in.

Informally speaking, AC2 amounts to the assertion that a variable set with an element at each stage has a variable element.

Generally speaking, the total amount of upfront fees should be between 0.5 and 2%.

Relatively speaking, that amount shows economic progress for the Yankees.

Chen and Yang [28] proved that the TSS as we set out here—has always a solution, if, loosely speaking, the amount of toll is higher than that of subsidy.