Sentence examples for amounted from high-quality English sources.

• Mitchell worried that amounted to extortion and talks broke down.

• His report warned this amounted to Huawei “effectively policing themselves”.

• “Limits to Growth” said total global oil reserves amounted to 550 billion barrels.

• In antiquity and classical times the transportation technology of land warfare largely amounted to man’s own powers of locomotion.

• Biden’s working relationship with segregationists amounted to the second self-started controversy this month for Mr.

• The recommendations amounted to a collection of broadly accepted liberal policy proposals — much like the new platform.

• It criticises the government for a “uni-directional” and abrupt approach to communication that amounted to “broadcasting” rather than discussion.

• Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza, called it a “stab in the back”, while Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said it amounted to a “betrayal”.

Use amounted in a sentence.

• But when asked whether calling the insurrectionists "American Patriots" amounted to tacit approval of their actions, she deleted the tweet and responded: "No.

• In the email, he said that "endless Slack trolling, victimhood thinking, us-vs-them divisiveness, and zero sum thinking" amounted to a "threat" that breaks teams.

• The US has long criticized China's imprisonment of more than one million Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region, and in January said its actions amounted to a genocide.

• Whatever his illness, it was highly infectious: antibiotics proved ineffective, meaning that clinical strategy – which would later be replicated elsewhere – amounted to keeping him alive in the hope that his immune systems would fight off the disease.

• In 2013, a federal judge ruled that New York's application of stop-and-frisk policing amounted to a "policy of indirect racial profiling" in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure.

• But on review, Amnesty International concluded that comments made by Navalny some 15 years ago, including a video which appears to compare immigrants to cockroaches, amounted to "hate speech" which was incompatible with the label "prisoner of conscience".

• Since November's election, Trump's campaign has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from supporters, including donations to help fund legal challenges opposing the results — donations amounted to at least $150 million in the first month after the election.

• Adam Schiff, chairman of the House intelligence committee, told reporters this week the executive branch refusal to cooperate amounted to evidence of obstruction of the inquiry, suggesting Trump, like Nixon, might face an article of impeachment along those lines.

amounted sentence examples

• "Although global emissions were not as high as last year, they still amounted to about 39 billion tonnes of CO2, and inevitably led to a further increase in CO2 in the atmosphere," said lead researcher Prof Pierre Friedlingstein from the University of Exeter, UK.

• The inflated numbers were more than just harmless self-promotion and amounted to fraudulent enticement of investors, who believed they were buying into a project that was healthier than it actually was, said Adam Leitman Bailey, the lawyer representing the buyers.

• The decisions amounted to a reversal by Admiral Gilday, who had previously recommended to his Pentagon superiors that command of the Roosevelt be returned to Captain Crozier, who was relieved in April after he pleaded for more help fighting the outbreak aboard his ship.

• THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court has condemned the Trump administration’s decision to authorize sanctions against court staff, saying it amounted to “an unacceptable attempt to interfere with the rule of law and the Court’s judicial proceedings.”