Such was the intensity of the Nadal-led criticism that some players sounded almost embarrassed about focusing on what amounted to major victories for them.
For utilities, especially those that own heavily polluting coal-fired power plants, the plan could amount to a major victory.
Allowing all defendants anonymity between arrest and charge, subject only to rare exceptions, would amount to a major change in the criminal justice system of England and Wales.
Mr. Nichols and Ms. Thompson, who wrote the script together, have made minimal changes to the play, but those amount to a major transformation.
The changes amount to a major shakeup at the CBS Corporation, where Mr. McManus has run both the news and sports divisions for the last five years.
But the scheme would amount to a major new encroachment by the settlers into this city of 120,000 Palestinians and just a few hundred Jews.
Were such a shortfall to occur, it would amount to a major disappointment in what was seen as an extraordinary attempt to compensate thousands of people quickly and generously for one of the worst catastrophes on American soil.
Taken together, they don't exactly amount to a major collection, and I harbor no hope that the Metropolitan Museum of Art will offer to name a wing after me in exchange for the donation of my art holdings.
But the Democrats suggested today that they were willing to explore a compromise rather than escalate the confrontation on the Senate floor, where a filibuster would amount to a major breakdown in bipartisan relations.
