There was the timing of the news of the axing of BBC4's (formerly BBC2's) The Review Show, just two days after director general Tony Hall summoned the media to rejoice as he announced a raft of initiatives amounting to "the biggest arts push for a generation".
The popularity of the wellness initiatives amounts to a recruiting tool, say the company's human resources people.
And others are concerned the whole initiative amounts to government financing for proselytizing.
But it is not clear what, if anything, this initiative amounts to.
Finally, there was a strong sense that the entire initiative amounted to an unsubtle Saudi attempt at post-9/11 rehabilitation.
The Quality Brands committee spokesman said he believed the initiative amounted to overzealous local enforcement rather than national policy.
The initiative amounts to Miliband's biggest market intervention since he announced in 2013 that Labour would freeze gas and electricity bills for every home and business in the UK for 20 months, if it formed the next government.
GP leaders said the initiative amounted to "an admission of failure" by ministers to develop enough homegrown staff and that it cast doubt on their pledge to increase the number of GPs by 5,000 by 2020.
GPs' leaders said the India initiative amounted to ministers' admission of failure to develop enough homegrown staff, and that it cast doubt on their pledge to increase the number of GPs by 5,000 by 2020.
Ana Dopico, the director of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, at New York University, and a Cuban-American herself, said that, in her view, Trump's initiative amounted to little more than an act of political theatre.
