The Scottish Parliament amounted in practice to "one man, Alex Salmond".
To Erica Lafferty, the daughter of the principal of the Newtown, Connecticut, school who was killed along with 20 first-graders and five other educators in the December attack, the vote amounted to inaction in the face of a national tragedy.
Even after a huge expansion of the NHS budget over the past decade, spending on health care in Britain amounted to 8.4% of GDP in 2007 compared with 16% in America, according to the OECD.
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Pope Benedict made his remarks at the Vatican in what amounted to a farewell address to hundreds of priests who serve in the Diocese of Rome, our correspondent says.
The three main parties differed over whether this amounted to bringing in a new law.
He said they had to put up with piped Christmas music and that this amounted to abuse in itself.
The boss battles were terribly conceived as they usually amounted to standing in a room with a powerful enemy unloading guns in your face.
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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said phone banks encouraging Bush supporters to attend a Nader nominating convention last Saturday amounted to an illegal in-kind contribution to the Nader campaign by the Oregon Family Council and Oregon Citizens for a Sound Economy.
The Amish argued that they're bound by rules guided by their religion and the government should never have gotten involved in what amounted to a family or church dispute.
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the last survivors among the five major Wall Street investment banks, would transform into bank holding companies in what amounted to the end of an era begun almost a hundred years earlier.
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In 2008, this amounted to about 1.5 billion people, most of whom lived in remote or rural areas of developing countries in sub- Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Foreign capital dried up in the crisis, so India relied on domestic savings, which amounted to almost 38% of GDP in the year to March 2008.
In 2007 that amounted to 75 fatal, 411 serious and 2, 517 slight accidents.
Moroccan-born Ms Mahroug complained that the judges' decision not to allow her to testify in the case amounted to "psychological violence".
This arrangement amounted to an early experiment in superpower arms control.
Ms Carson, who moved to South Africa at the end of the 1980s, claimed that the refusal amounted to unlawful discrimination, in breach of the Convention on Human Rights.
The headline financial impact from the CARD Act, Reg E, and the Durbin amendment have amounted to billions of dollars in reduced fee revenue at each of the large banks.
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First, it amounted to an unusual slap in the face: state courts are not supposed to make rulings so ambiguous that the high court cannot understand the basis for them.
Although the deterioration in the Scottish economy over the summer has been stemmed, the Bank's monthly Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) report said this amounted to very little change in the Scottish economy.
As the lockout continues, players are affected not only by their loss of income but by a potentially messy situation under which their home countries may seek to tax income earned during the lockout, which would include income from investments, endorsements and their 2011-12 NHL escrow payment, which was made in October and amounted to nearly 8% of their 2011-12 salary.
For example, in the most recent quarter, overhead expenses amounted to less than 11% of sales, down from roughly 14% in the year-earlier period.
Two-way trade between Colombia and the US amounted to almost 16 billion dollars in 2006.
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In 2008 their remittances amounted to 17% of national income, one of the world's higher rates.
Compassion in World Farming has also condemned the plans and in 2010 said they amounted to factory farming.
Capital expenditure in the third quarter amounted to 4.9 trillion won, bringing year-to-date total investments to around 16 trillion won.
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Norris refused to say where Jaser was from, saying that revealing his nationality in the current climate amounted to demonizing him.
He refused to say where Jaser was from, saying that revealing his nationality in the current climate amounted to demonizing him.
The want ads amounted to less than a column in the newspaper.
In fact, what the deployment of U.S. troops on Saudi soil in Operation Desert Shield amounted to was allowing us to defend them.
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