Sentences with 'amounting'
Example sentences and phrases with the word amounting and other words derived from it.
• « Two assassination attempts on the Kaiser, though carried out by men who had nothing to do with socialism, gave Bismarck the pretext, and the Reichstag immediately passed laws amounting to a ban on the Social Democratic Party of Germany itself. »
• « In addition, the former members of the Triple Entente themselves owed huge sums to the United States for loans they had received during the war, amounting to some $10 billion. »
• « Comparatively recently - in January 1990 - the BND, the German equivalent of the CIA, informed the Foreign Ministry that various German manufacturers had officially received 'risk insurance' amounting to $85,000,000 and protecting material being exported for the Iraqi missile programme. »
• « President Adams wanted to promote manufacturing, especially in his home region of New England. To this end, in 1828 he proposed a high tariff on imported goods, amounting to 50 per cent of their value. »