Sentence examples for the proposal amount from inspiring English sources

The arcane details of the proposal amount to a major overhaul of the landmark surveillance law known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which Congress passed in 1978 after the abuses of the Watergate era.

The proposal amounts to a package of reciprocal measures.

Two credit-rating agencies said that the proposal amounted to a selective default.

Titled the Uniform Bulk Program, the proposal amounts to the architectural manifesto of the Giuliani administration -- a major statement on the most famous skyline in the universe.

Christine Blower of the National Union of Teachers said that the proposal amounted to "an unmanageable level of change which could lead to a collapse of the whole system".

Not so fast: the proposal amounts to one line in a 20-page report on the government's strategy for tackling rising crime.

Although Stern said the figure could rise, based on certain benchmarks, Hunter said the proposal amounted to a 10-year salary freeze.

But the Scottish Labour leader suggested that the proposal amounted to "the official barring of Scottish Labour MPs from the UK budget" and that it put the continuation of the Barnett formula, which is used to decide the allocation of public funds between Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, in jeopardy.

The Bush campaign argues that it can change the way the public is thinking about the issues, in much the same way that Republicans and their allies dampened enthusiasm for President Clinton's plan for universal health care coverage by persuading the public that the proposal amounted to government intrusion in private lives.

In a joint letter to Congress, about two dozen groups — including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights — contended that the proposal amounted to an open-ended grant of authority to the executive branch, legitimizing an unending war from Yemen to Somalia and beyond.

Rather than a radical re-reading of an avant-garde movement, the proposal amounted to thin stuff, and one that confused conceptualism with all sorts of other things: the YBAs, Fluxus, the opacity of contemporary art and art writing in general.