Amounting

This week the Nationalist Party has offered constitutional proposals for a new South Africa, proposals that it describes as amounting to participatory democracy. ❋ Unknown (1991)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

U.S. coins amounting to more than $20 million were auctioned that night. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Indeed, it exemplified an attitude he was later to characterize as amounting to a kind of unacceptable “dogmatism” ❋ Proops, Ian (2007)

The faces are generally ugly, & wrenched into over-expression amounting sometimes to distortion…. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

Critics could decide that they think this agenda should be described as amounting to a wish to restore the Constitution in Exile. ❋ Unknown (2004)

World Bank country director, Yau Ansu told a press conference that said 60 per cent of the 1.3 billion dollars was grant aid, while the remaining 40 per cent would be loaned to the government for bridge financing on very low terms amounting to zero per cent interest staggered over a 30-year period. ❋ Unknown (2002)

States at the time of their enlistment, and are again citizens at the time of application, except those persons who separated from the service under terms amounting to dishonorable discharge and except also those persons who refused to perform their military duties on the ground of conscientious or political obligation. ❋ George Seay Wheat (N/A)

With a check upon his enthusiasm and a sudden gloom of expression amounting almost to a squint, Mr. BUMSTEAD motions with his whole right side toward an adjacent room in which a table is spread, and leads the way thither in a half-circle. ❋ Various (N/A)

Another rule was, that the persons were the most happy in whose names the numeral letters added together, made the greatest sum; for which reason, it was alleged, Achilles vanquished Hector, the numeral letters in the former name amounting to a greater number than in the latter. ❋ James Grant (N/A)

Alfred Hardie, hero of HARD CASH, is the typical nineteenth-century novel-hero (public-school style), with gifts which Reade describes as amounting to ‘genius’. ❋ Unknown (1900)

Expressed succinctly, their harvest may be described as amounting to a fraction more than two Chinamen per missionary per annum. ❋ Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 (1895)

There was a pyramid of gold coins amounting to a thousand dollars, an automobile, ❋ William Eleroy Curtis (1880)

They wore an expression amounting to consternation, and I could see that he caught up his bridle with increased alertness, bent himself to the saddle, half drew up his horse, and then, as if suddenly resolved, edged him off, as closely as the woods would allow, to the opposite side of the road. ❋ Unknown (1845)

he [needs] that amount of [money] to [survive]. ❋ Cavadzad (2013)

person 1: How many [shotgat] [shells] ya [got left]? person 2: A Loki amount. person 1: :/ ❋ Deadlyswarmofcats (2012)

[She drank] A-Jodie-Amount last night. "How are you feeling today?" "[Not good] [hun], I drunk A-Jodie-Amount last night." ❋ Funnymum24 (2017)

Guy 1: look at that [red] [letterbox] Guy 2: [haha], amount us Guy 1: wtf are you talking about ❋ Llamazing (2022)

There is a nigger amount of [Sweet Baby Ray's] [barbecue sauce] in [Randall's] refrigerator ❋ Cooked123456 (2016)

[dude] i [drink] stupid amounts of [milk] ❋ Jjwagner93 (2005)

How much [draw] you got? [i'm out]! I've got [bear] amounts. Thanks for asking. ❋ Sine (2004)

'My [coupon] [expired] AND I was too early for the sale, so they charged me the full amount.' 'How much money did you win at the [casino] yesterday?' 'The full amount.' ❋ ASM (2006)

Guy: So do we need any thing for the party tonight. Lady: Babe, we have [x amount]. Lady Saw uses this term in her song "Don't even stress dat" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc2jr6zc9lu Lady Saw: Don't even stress dat, dem gal de na have x amount a kitty [whe] me got [inna] lap. Translation: Don't even think too hard about her she don't have the x amount of kitty i've got in my lap. ❋ She Speaks (2009)

There were mad amounts of [biddies] at [the event] tonight. That book costs mad amounts. We need to buy mad amounts of [alc] for tonight. ❋ William Kane (2015)