1.   However, opponents charge that the new Internet regulations amount to unconstitutional censorship that would criminalize expression protected by the First Amendment.

2.   A group of bars, restaurants, and liquor stores said the Clay County regulation amounts to an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion.

3.   Property-rights advocates say environmental regulations increasingly amount to such a taking and are pressing Congress to enact a law providing for compensation.

4.   Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, the majority leader, joined those who argued that environmental regulations can amount to the unfair seizure of property.

5.   The court shot down free-speech claims by rejecting arguments that the regulations amounted to censorship by Congress.

6.   The minister contested claims by some journalists that the strict regulations amount to censure.

7.   They and the Greens party argue the regulation would amount to an interrogation of pregnant women.