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- verb Present participle of
amount .
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Examples
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This week the Nationalist Party has offered constitutional proposals for a new South Africa, proposals that it describes as amounting to participatory democracy.
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This week the Nationalist Party has offered constitutional proposals for a new South Africa, proposals that it describes as amounting to participatory democracy.
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Of course there is a limit on what a large company like Lyric, in a large theater, with an annual list of titles amounting to only eight, could do to support adequately the broader reaches of the operatic repertoire.
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U.S. coins amounting to more than $20 million were auctioned that night.
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Twenty-six of these letters contained comments of the kind we presume Makhanya identified as amounting to "attacks on people who irked the President in one way or another", whatever this means.
ANC Today 2007
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Twenty-six of these letters contained comments of the kind we presume Makhanya identified as amounting to "attacks on people who irked the President in one way or another", whatever this means.
ANC Today 2007
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Indeed, it exemplified an attitude he was later to characterize as amounting to a kind of unacceptable “dogmatism”
Wittgenstein's Logical Atomism Proops, Ian 2007
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The faces are generally ugly, & wrenched into over-expression amounting sometimes to distortion….
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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The faces are generally ugly, & wrenched into over-expression amounting sometimes to distortion….
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Critics could decide that they think this agenda should be described as amounting to a wish to restore the Constitution in Exile.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is “The Constitution in Exile” A Myth?: 2004
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