Sentence examples for term amounts from inspiring English sources

The question of whether the quest for Israeli-Palestinian peace or for a breakthrough with Iran should be the first diplomatic priority for Obama's second term amounts to a no-brainer.

WASHINGTON — President Obama's final budget request of his term amounts to his agenda for a desired second term, with tax increases on the affluent and cuts in spending, especially from the military, both to reduce deficits and to pay for priorities like education, public works, research and clean energy.

The total of the combined or correlated contributions in this decomposition is almost twice as large as the total of the direct contributions, and the residual term amounts to 39.76%.

The Supreme Court's decision to hear the case this term amounts to the federal government's first significant victory in the legal dispute.

But in their defence, Top Gear's programme makers claimed they thought the term amounted to "mere slang".

He complained after a reporter described him in an article as a "double espresso of a politician," suggesting that the term amounted to an anti-Italian slur.

Stroud began petitioning the government that his long prison term amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.

Some employers have been accused of rolling over temporary employment in short-term amounts to get around having to pay workers full-time pay and benefits.

The difference between these two terms amounts to (15).

An equational theory as a set of pairs of terms amounts to a binary relation on the set of all terms.

Since direct interpretation of theoretical terms amounts just to standard realist truth-conditions, there is no need for a further discussion here.