Sentence examples for the measures amount from inspiring English sources

"The measures amount to a constitutional coup," said Teodoro Petkoff, who edits an opposition newspaper.

Labor disputes that many of the measures amount to new taxes.

Combined with automatic extra welfare spending and lower tax revenue, it says, the measures amount to about 4percentt of gross domestic product.

Signatories to the letter, who also include the chief executive of the National Children's Bureau, Dr Hilary Emery, say that the measures amount to an overreaction which is particularly unfortunate at a time when youth services are being cut across the country.

Opponents charge that the measures amount to censorship that will stifle innovation and impose higher costs on consumers.

In letters to legislators, the state chamber said the measures amount to a "de facto moratorium on foreclosures" that would actually hurt the real estate market with a confusing new set of laws, squeeze credit for property purchases and trigger a wave of lawsuits.

The Interior Ministry, which oversees the police, denied that the measures amounted to censorship.

George Karatzaferis complained that the measures amounted to Greeks being "humiliated" by Germany.

However, President Barack Obama halted the programme when he took office in 2009, and acknowledged that many of the measures amounted to torture.

Human rights activists said the measures amounted to harassment.

Opponents of the bills, known as SOPA and PIPA, said the measures amounted to Internet censorship.