Sentence examples for which would have amounted from inspiring English sources

Rumour swept through intellectual London that, in fact, the government wanted to turf the Societies out or to get a full market rent, which would have amounted to much the same thing.

Alibaba and Yahoo resumed talks late last year, hoping to reach a deal on a complicated transaction known as a cash-rich split, which would have amounted to a tax-free asset swap.

Back in New York, Dunau estimates he has lost as much as $100,000 by not signing a fracking lease, which would have amounted to free money since the industry was never able to build anything in New York.

Instead of making any of these arguments, which would have amounted to asserting, once again, that the world is rotten, Mr. Trump opted for transparent and traditional hypocrisy: He claimed to disapprove of lying.

In an interview with the Observer, Prodi said the UK should have recognised the moral imperative – and economic benefit – of taking up its quota, which would have amounted to some 18,000 people.

In its previous offer, the government planned to cut the nominal, or face, value of the debt by 75percentt, which would have amounted to more than a 90percentt reduction in the market value of the debt.

The previous Terengganu government, run by UMNO, used to receive 5% of the annual royalties from the plant, which this year would have amounted to about $200m.

In exchange for a one-off charge of 2% of assets (which last year would have amounted to £83m) and the promise to pay most of its future profit to shareholders, Hammerson will erase potential tax liabilities of about £365m and free itself from future impositions.

The prime minister, Tony Abbott, raised the pay offer to defence force personnel to 2% after being criticised for the original 1.5% offer, which advocates say would have amounted to a pay cut in real terms.

The gold trade was worth $200 million to the Ugandan economy last year but there are no official figures on where the gold came from or where it is going". The Kenyan high court has suspended a government order which critics say would have amounted to tapping the mobile phones of millions of people.

Tottenham inserted a sell-on clause when they moved Defoe to Portsmouth, which entitled them to a percentage of any future transfer fee which, with the sums involved, would have amounted to £4m.