"What Western policy really amounts to is setting the bar so low that the Nigerian government can overcome it without really making any effort," he said.

President Clinton's policies, Mr. Dole asserted, amounted to a "war on families."

Our economic policy here amounted to almost solely.the requisitioning system of food and distribution.

Others said that because elected positions can be especially important to impressionable adolescents, the policy amounted to effective encouragement of abortion if a girl became pregnant.

Mr. Carril and others circulated a petition, which declared that the policy amounted to "nothing more than discrimination."

Because such proof is difficult, the policy often amounted to an outright refusal.

Although justified with appropriate socialist phraseology, this policy amounted in effect to abandoning state ownership and control of the economy.

At this point, 119 parents complained that they felt this policy amounted to either religious or sexual discrimination.

Environmental policy, however, amounts to more than just Natura 2000.

"That is what our policy amounts to."