School officials say his proposal amounted to the same one they had presented to Stein staff members in a briefing.

To critics, the proposal amounts to an outright bribe, although on a mass scale.

Today's proposal amounts to the third budget President Clinton has offered this year.

The proposal amounts to a tax cut for the middle class.

The proposal amounted to a total compensation package of JPY74 million.

Initial response from Israeli negotiators was negative, because the proposal amounts to a framework for an independent Palestinian state.

I think that the proposal which has now come back on the matter of product placement also amounts to an improvement.

The proposal amounts to keeping the general structure, the foundation of the Convention, upright.

The Commission's proposal amounts to interference in national fiscal sovereignty.

Political realism or pragmatism should not be mistaken for shirking responsibilities which is what, in my view, the Commission's proposal amounts to.