We spotted a GSM Palm Pre with a Vodafone SIM card, which could mean everything or nothing.
The passage promising to cut export subsidies, for example, could mean everything or nothing to a country like Brazil.
The best thing about walking is that you are your own boss: start and halt, look at everything or nothing, think about a lot or a little.
Tourists sit on the new risers watching nothing or everything, looking down, from time to time, to study their guidebooks.
When NSC staff met in a room, they would refer these questions to the State Department representative, who would either act as if everything were under control or simply shrug that nothing could be done.
But at Supermax -- officially called "Administrative Maximum, " or ADX -- everything is very tightly controlled, with nothing left to chance, so there is no particular sense of a threat, no feeling of vulnerability.
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The public and their politicians are treated to perpetual squabbles about the exact effects of raising interest rates or of cutting the capital-gains tax or whatever and conclude that economists disagree about everything and understand nothing.
But a deliberately apolitical mass movement that is overwhelmingly focused on street theater does not, by itself, pose a huge or immediate threat: like Putinism itself, such a movement is everything and nothing all at once.
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The source of engagement has nothing to do with breaking bread (or bread sticks) and everything to do with the extent to which trust, values and mission actually inspire and drive daily activities and interactions.
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However, employers are usually less forgiving of mistakes that have nothing to do with nerves and everything to do with a lack of preparation or professionalism.
It was nothing to do with policy being too left or right wing, and everything to do with presentation or, as Tim Montgomerie argued, a lack of "basic professionalism" at the top of the party.
Or to put it another way, everything it owns outside the UK has an implicit valuation in the market of more-or-less nothing - which, some would say, is bonkers.
That has people wondering whether somebody in the administration imposed national security classifications on information that had nothing to do with protecting sources and methods, or even diplomatic relations, and everything to do with a political coverup.
But not knowing everything, or even not knowing as much as one would like to know, is not the same thing as knowing nothing.
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