Sentence examples for war amounts from inspiring English sources

"The Wrong War" amounts to a crushing and seemingly irrefutable critique of the American plan in Afghanistan.

For most Americans, the direct cost of the war amounts to a few more dollars at the gas pump.

"Shirking that responsibility and attributing it instead to the cost of war amounts to a pardon of those who made decisions to dehumanize these women and is license to future generations to use war as an excuse".

The International Committee of the Red Cross has argued that international humanitarian law is applicable when any "war" amounts to armed conflict, defined by a certain intensity of violence: 25 to 1,000 war-related deaths per year and a sophisticated enough command structure that armed groups are actually able to implement such law.

President Otto Pérez Molina is a former general who has said he does not believe that the killings during the war amounted to genocide.

By 1975, he was the British representative on a UN sub-committee on minorities' rights and in 1985 headed an investigation into whether Ottoman atrocities against Armenians during the Great War amounted to genocide.

Jeh C. Johnson, the Pentagon general counsel, and Caroline D. Krass, the acting head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, had told the White House that they believed that the United States military's activities in the NATO-led air war amounted to "hostilities".

As Lincoln himself in effect announced in his Emancipation Proclamation and magnificent address, the war amounted to what historians have called a Second American Revolution, one that sealed not just American nationhood but also the kind of country the United States would be.

Just over a month later, judges acquitted Karadzic of one count of genocide, saying prosecutors had not presented enough evidence to establish that a campaign of murder and persecution early in the Bosnian War amounted to genocide.

Speaking on "The Early Show" on CBS, Ms. Couric said the lack of skepticism shown by journalists about the Bush administration's case for war amounted to "one of the most embarrassing chapters in American journalism".

Five months before the start of the centenary, the German government's plans for marking the 1914-18 wamountuntoto events costing less than €4m – a fraction of the budgets put aside by other key actors in the conflict.