Still, the harm to the common weal inflicted by Blair's banal lies amounted to rather less than, say, the harm done by the Pulitzer Prize-winning whitewash of Stalin's terror perpetrated by Walter Duranty, the paper's longtime Moscow correspondent, or, for that matter, the more recent harm done by its obtuse, petty, and wrongheaded obsession with the Clinton non-scandal known as Whitewater.
The Swiss response to this sort of thing, as you might imagine, amounts to rather more than a sincere apology.
The weekend-long event, a celebration of tradition that amounted to a rather wild, yet rather wholesome dance party, attracted hundreds of people, many from far enough away to surround the grounds with a temporary tent city.
Taken as a whole, the changes amounted to tinkering rather than the wholesale overhaul that many analysts had thought necessary to energize the national government.
Early recordings of Jay-Z reveal a nimble but mild-mannered virtuoso, delivering rat-a-tat syllables (he liked to rap in double-time triplets, delivering six syllables per beat) that often amounted to études rather than songs.
To understand the visceral Bedouin anger over what at the time amounted to the rather mild response of six arrests for the killing of 16 soldiers, I had to delve into the Bedouin's troubled relationship with Mubarak's Pharaonic authority.
Most fundamentally, Scott Bonn, a criminology professor at Drew University who authored the 2014 book, Why We Love Serial Killers, said the fact Naiboa, Mitchell and Hoffa rode the bus and were killed within a one-mile radius of each other amounted to a "rather uncanny pattern".
I felt that this request amounted to a demand rather than a suggestion.
The reviews also found that a combination of problems amounted to fundamental flaws rather than random or periodic slip-ups, the officials said.
He insisted that the matter on which he was convicted, known as the Investment Center affair, amounted to procedural irregularity rather than corruption.
They said Mr. Clinton had upset some of the central themes of Mrs. Clinton's campaign, including her appeal to women and her assertions that her time in the White House during the 1990s amounted to vital experience rather than a link to a presidency defined as much by scandal and partisan divisions as by its successes on fronts like the economy.
