It is the harsh, belittling tone of the quoted remarks, as much as their substance, that has created a stir here.
On the whole, however, Mr Kerry has backed away from his earlier remarks, as much of the anti-business venom has drained from the offshoring debate.Mark Roe, a Harvard Law School professor, calls such periodic swings in sentiment against big business "backlashes".
In a rare public appearance after the meetings, the general, Tommy R. Franks, calibrated his remarks as much for the leaders and citizens of Uzbekistan, many of whom bristle under the totalitarian rule of President Islam Karimov, as for the people of the United States.
Its elusiveness is age old and much remarked, as is its mixture of beauty and plainness.
There are other special qualities about New York – perhaps especially about Manhattan – that make it catnip for dream and reverie and the imagination – qualities so obvious but counter-intuitive that they don't get remarked on as much as they might.
JANINE JANSEN'S first recording, a vibrant chamber-scale account of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons," was remarked on as much for its cover art -- a reclining Ms. Jansen in a gauzy, low-cut dress, dangling her violin over the arm of a chair -- as for the playing.
Philippe et al[ 85] came to the same conclusion using a eukaryote protein supermatrix and computational simulations, and remarked that as much as 75% of the data could be missing without significantly decreasing the reliability of the phylogeny produced.
The second remark has as much truth as the first — which is to say, some truth.
But the significance of Mr. Major's remarks lay as much in their timing as their content.
In Parliament, right-wing Conservatives supposedly on the same side as Mr. Clegg openly ridicule his remarks almost as much as the Labour opposition does.
"The American people want to know if it's still possible for Washington to look out for their interests and their future," Mr. Obama said in a remark aimed as much at lawmakers as at the roaring crowd.
