What is "amounts"

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A month later, after press revelations that the Atlanta branch of the Italian Banco Nazionale del Lavoro had helped Iraq divert massive amounts of U.

The curvature often amounts to a rectangle,--that is, the terminal part bends upwards until the tip, which is but little curved, projects almost horizontally.

To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.

Soviet Union, signing a treaty of friendship in 1972 and purchasing large amounts of weapons.

The Iraqis grudgingly turned over to the inspectors huge amounts of WMD-filled bombs and artillery shells, many of their Scud missiles, and major chunks of their nuclear program in hopes that this would satisfy the inspectors.

The rich have done fine because they had significant amounts of wealth in hard currency, often outside the country, that actually increased their purchasing power in Iraq as a result of the inflation.

Iraq will be unable to purchase the vast amounts of weapons, equipment, spare parts, ammunition, and other combat consumables it desperately needs.

WMD programs require much smaller amounts of resources and equipment than conventional forces.

But that amounts to containing or managing the threat, not eliminating it.

These Iraqi offensives at al-Faw, Fish Lake, Mehran, the Majnun Islands, and Dehloran were preceded by artillery bombardments involving massive amounts of chemical warfare--this at a point in the war when the Iranians had developed their own chemical weapons and could, to some extent, respond in kind.

Over time, and with help from several American advisers, the INC refined the plan to include ever greater amounts of American military power.

Convincing the Gulf states to provide Jordan with large amounts of heavily discounted oil, and possibly a market for Jordanian goods, is not going to be easy.

The amounts were paid at five times, and the last four payments were made on the personal order of General Fremont.

The laws of the States, however, require that the voter shall have been a resident in the State for some period, and generally either deny the right of voting to negroes, or so hamper that privilege that practically it amounts to the same thing.

In speaking of a person held to labor the Constitution intends to speak of a slave, and the article amounts to a fugitive slave law.