boiled down

My attitude, crazy as it sounds, boiled down to this: Maybe we were all going to die, but at least I was making money.

For the better part of a century, America’s foreign policy has boiled down to this: We foot most of the bills and prevent bullies from rolling over weaker sovereign states.

But as ever with capitalism, it can also be boiled down to two simple things: dollars and cents.

The Colorado Supreme Court said the matter boiled down to "whether an elephant is a person" and therefore had the same liberty rights as a human - ultimately deciding that they did not.

For all his endless rambling nonsense, Donald Trump's message can be boiled down to a simple lie: If one group of people does well, it must necessarily be at the expense of another.