Finding reasons to ignore or diminish it amounts to reducing or negating the importance of value.
What it amounts to is a series of 'smart' chips inserted into biocompatible devices and strung together.
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All this is encouraging for Lula, but it amounts to a reprieve rather than a full recovery.
This could take years, and it amounts to a lot of money the homeowner is literally giving away.
It amounts to media for an ADD (attention deficit disorder) world: When users commune, they consume--and Yahoo cashes in.
The debt of state and municipalities has doubled in the past 7 years and it amounts to 3% of GDP.
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It amounts to a long-shot, but it means that the Democrats are likely to endure many more weeks of uncertainty.
This may not lead to the formal trappings of a federation, but in practice it amounts to much the same thing.
"It's grown-ups playing cowboys and Indians is what it amounts to, " says Gene (Evil Roy) Pearcey, the reigning World Champion cowboy shooter.
What it amounts to is a collection of newspaper articles, items off the internet, concerning cases going back as far as 1998.
Joe Ferran says as spectrum goes it amounts to prime real estate.
It amounts to a bet that other EU members will grant big concessions, knowing that otherwise British voters would reject the deal.
It amounts to blasphemy, a capital offense according to Islamic law.
As energetic as all this sounds, it amounts to almost nothing.
Some aid agencies reckon it amounts to just three to six weeks' supplies, while the Iraqi government claims its citizens have enough to last six months.
In any event, the bulk of the Watkins fortune, whatever it amounts to, seems to be based more on what's to come than in the here and now.
It amounts to saying that when it comes to electing a President, it is relevant whether he ever committed adultery but not whether he ever committed a felony.
Yes, right now it amounts to a reduction in spending.
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But the European Commission believes a quota on foreign players would be incompatible with EU law as it amounts to discrimination at work and a restriction on the free movement of workers.
David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), described Gomez's decision as unprecedented, but it amounts to a mere slap on the wrist long after the fact.
That may be far fewer than the 8m-12m people that the federal migration service estimates are working in Russia illegally, but it amounts to far more than have been handed out before.
This may seem a logical system, but too often it amounts to an in-group of mandarins funding types of research they deem fashionable or are already familiar with, and the cycles of proposal and review are painfully slow.
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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The blog Engadget called the app "fairly primitive, " and The Next Web said it amounts to "nothing more than a parlor trick at this point" since other location-based friend finders haven't caught on with the general public despite their buzziness in tech circles.
Statistically, it amounts to big business: the Golden State, with the largest agricultural sector in the nation, produces more than 250 commodities, from almonds to walnuts, and leads the nation in 75 of them (almost all of America's grapes and dates, and more than three-quarters of its strawberries and lettuce, come from California).
For the rest of us, it amounts to another murky subplot in the ongoing story of EchoStar's quest to merge with its main satellite competitor, the DirecTV unit of Hughes Electronics (nyse: GMH - news - people ), which is in turn majority-owned by General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ).
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