On the one hand, former Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze engaged in what amounts to blackmail.
Directly and indirectly, individuals control two-thirds of the market, which means that muni bond prices move in what amounts to a retail echo chamber.
"McArthur is also personally benefiting from ASEA's control of the 457 plan" in what amounts to a conflict of interest, says the Alabama Securities Commission report.
Rolland's influence is denounced as pernicious by self-styled champions of wine's eccentricity, who think Rolland and Parker are engaged in what amounts to a campaign to homogenize flavor.
Being in a 2-2 series isn't the right time for Heat panic over now being in what amounts to a best-of-three, or Heat lament over anything that isn't going their way, Spoelstra said.
AMERICA'S loudest protectionist argues, in what amounts to a highly personal political manifesto, that America has always been protectionist, but that ordinary Americans are suffering and the country's sovereignty is being sacrificed to modern free-trade doctrines.
The report added the only modification since 1842 has been "the re-installation of in-cell sanitation, the effect of which has been to require two strangers to eat, sleep and spend a large part of their waking hours in what amounts to a shared lavatory".
They are urging legislators not to cave in to what amounts to brute intimidation under the false pretense that those exercising it represent the entire American Islamic community.
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Though Wright refused to attribute his current situation to his presence in the WBC, the fact remains: Wright made the conscious decision to play through pain in what essentially amounts to a glorified exhibition, and now everybody must live with the consequences.
For these reasons, account managers are resigned to the fact that repricing volume will likely continue to flourish in the months ahead as issuers exercise what amounts to in-the-money call options.
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The early Pacific Andes business model--seed others' fishing fleets and then use a complex network of sourcing and transshipping (acting as middleman between catch boats and markets)--left it seemingly in cahoots with what amounts to ocean poaching.
Not surprisingly, The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media refuse to accept what in the real world amounts to definitive new evidence of Iranian intentions, or the consensus outside the left that the NIE was at best misleading.
Now, keep in mind that what we are spending on the military amounts to nearly 50% of what every other nation in the world spends.
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It occurs to me now what we are seeing increasingly in musicals are times when the narrative stops for what amounts to a montage that's set to music.
Pearson samples the line to suggest that's what studying hip hop in the academy amounts to.
SocialEyes has a long way to go for success, primarily in attracting people and getting them happy over what amounts to a new form of group communications.
Such companies have traditionally been able to charge much higher amounts in the United States compared to what they charge in the rest of the world.
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Buyers of traditional convertibles often sell issuers' shares short in order to offset the option element and leave themselves with what amounts to a pure bond.
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So the Ravens' defensive players say they have what amounts to Suggs in their ear at all times.
He says that what's happening in Jordan amounts to human trafficking.
"There's no reason for the jargon when you're trying to communicate the essence of the science to the public because you're talking what amounts to gibberish to them, " Alda said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
The U.S., in turn, must provide Iran with what amounts to a diplomatic fig leaf.
Earlier in the day, the Fed got what amounts to an all-clear signal to lower rates without having to worry about near-term inflationary consequences.
This will be appealing to users who seek the full functionality of a laptop rather than having what amounts to a smartphone in a tablet.
In exchange, Iraq is being offered what amounts to a timetable for an expanded and improved version of the oil-for-food agreement (the deal under which Iraq sells a set amount of oil to pay for humanitarian relief and war reparations).
The Web occasionally enables service employees to benefit from what amounts to a change in venue: suddenly, the exasperating interaction is being judged in the court of public opinion, where the jury is far more likely to side with the worker, and often even imposes a sentence on the entitled or belligerent customer: 10, 000 digital tongue-lashings and a note on their permanent record.
The chairman of the Police Federation in Lancashire has asked local MPs to stop what amounts to the "destruction of the police service".
While Skilling was an important instance of judicial resistance to vagueness in the criminal law, the books are filled with laws, like the one in Cahill, that leave doubt as to what conduct amounts to a crime.
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To try to make it as easy as possible - I have addressed this in other interviews that I have had - what it amounts to is there has been a big fuss since the deliberation that prior art was not considered.
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It adds insult to injury that Primakov has secured what amounts to Western underwriting for these initiatives in the form of IMF and bilateral assistance, debt reschedulings, the Nunn-Lugar slush fund, etc.
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