Lord Adonis, the former Labour transport minister, said the speech amounted to "a systematic hatchet job" on the culture at Network Rail, adding: "I don't think I've ever heard a CEO be so critical of his own organisation".
The Labor member for Canberra, Gai Brodtmann, said Monday's announcement amounted to a broken promise.
Salmond will argue to his dying days – no doubt clutching a copy of a Guardian article from March 2014 which quoted an anonymous UK minister saying that "of course" a currency union would be formed – that the chancellor's intervention amounted to "bluff, bluster and bullying".
The evidence trail amounted to the easiest bust in the history of online piracy.
You brought his life to an end without any motive in circumstances which you know amounted to murder…" Since his mother died, Ben Gunn had been forever escaping the rules and authority that had closed in on him, climbing out of windows, scarpering down driveways.
Rolf, Cut and Run, a report that Greenpeace published in 2008, alleged that Kimberly-Clark's sustainability policy amounted to greenwashing.
McKibben says: "BP's 'beyond petroleum' shtick was one of the great PR moves of all time, but it never amounted to anything – nor will the pious purring noises they're making now," he argues.
However, she denied they amounted to "immunity, exemption or amnesty from arrest".
Even at its peak, total spending on the programme amounted to only 0.8% of GDP, making it probably the most efficient employment programme ever.
Talks progressed until 12 February 1985, when both sides sat down to agree a new text that amounted to a "get-out-of-jail card for Scargill".
The Republican party chairman Reince Priebus, interviewed on Bloomberg television, denied the Iowa results amounted to muddle, saying such close battles were "not unusual on both sides of the aisle" and "all the excitement is on our side" on the way to the general election.
