Sentence examples for surely amount from inspiring English sources

Evening Standard Editorial, London, July 26 "Holding suspects for three months would surely amount to internment without trial.

Shaw was never very good at endings, but the last lines of the published version of Pygmalion in 1916 surely amount to his worst.

He is a man of the times in this green wave, and the small ripples he makes today will surely amount to sizable waves down the line.

This president and vice-president took countless despicable actions that surely amount to high crimes and yet the media yawns and even the vast majority of Democrats in Congress are simply uninterested.

But it surely amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars.

Criticising Bowen could affect his reporting of the region, which surely amounts to a form of censorship itself.

His pop at "can't-do sogginess" surely amounted to the grim spectacle of silver-spooned millionaire telling the rest of us to awaken an optimism completely contradicted by events.

Still, a reflex dependence on escapism — as if relief from a new and disturbing reality could only be found in kitsch — surely amounts to a misreading of the moment.

But individual natures in Ockham's view can indeed be primarily diverse, and this surely amounts to a form of haecceitism — nothing other than an individual nature's own self-identity explains its distinction from all other such natures.

Surely no amount of insurance could cover that?

Surely no amount of touring teaches a musician how to handle a situation like this.