to sum up

Lord Ericht appeared to sum up their position succinctly on Friday, when he suggested it amounted to them asking him to say: "I accept this decision is unlawful but I give it lawful effect."

It was difficult to sum up last season for Harlequins.

The mood in any place, at any one moment, is always hard to sum up.

Cohn had not taken the stand—but the judge allowed him to sum up on his own behalf, which had never been done before in anyone’s memory.

In it she questioned how the same one-word judgement could be used to sum up both a school with issues that could be fixed quickly and a school "dreadful in every respect".