Sentence examples for this proposal amounts from inspiring English sources

"This proposal amounts to a discriminatory tax on millions of licence fee-paying viewers to watch public service content that is supposed to be free.

So far, this proposal amounts to little more than a re-framing of Whorf's (1956) semantic cryptotype account in the terminology of construction grammar.

Grellman, of the hospital association, said that by not addressing Medi-Cal and Medicaid, the proposal amounts to "tinker[ing] around the edges". "You've got this wobbly table that is going to continue to wobble," Grellman said.

Some privacy groups say the proposal amounts to a "massive" and unexplained shift in government policy.

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

Based on last season's $3.3 billion in revenues, that proposal amounts to a transfer of $425 million transfer to the owners from the players.

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.

All told, the proposal amounts to a substantial tax increase for wealthy people.

Defiant Microsoft officials said the proposal amounts to a corporate death penalty to one of the world's most successful companies.

Mikhail Pastukhou, a former Constitutional Court judge, says the proposal amounts to "forced labour by stealth" in the interests of the struggling state-run farming industry.

Mike Stabile, a spokesman for the Free Speech Coalition, told the Arizona Mirror the proposal amounts to a tax on media content and would violate the First Amendment.