The old bulb is gone now and the smaller bulbs do not truly amount to much in the garden setting.
In a series of interviews for the special, "Paul McCartney in Red Square," on A&E tonight, 40-ish and 50-ish Russians who grew up in that era -- including playwrights, musicians, cultural commentators and government officials -- recall an idolatry for a British rock band that truly amounted to cultural revolution.
It can help disinfect corruption, but as one of the more experienced members of the cabinet observes: "It doesn't solve as many problems as we're told in advance". Giving us a digest of the prime minister's appointments diary does not truly amount to "complete transparency" because what really matters is what was said at these meetings.
For a while, the band didn't know if all the buzz would truly amount to anything.
Large tomato plants usually take a week or so to get settled in the garden before they truly amount to anything.
The cover letter is where you highlight a few key parts of your resume and elaborate a little to give the hiring manager a better sense of what the bullet points on your resume truly amount to.
That would well and truly amount to a global entitlement program, costing upfront hundreds of billions over the next few years, and predictably fringed with a self-reinforcing bureaucracy, special interests and market-wrecking pitfalls that could in the end make subprime mortgages look small.
Yet the latter is truly misbegotten; it amounts to a monumental waste of political energies and resources against the wrong target.
By the time Adlington was Chloe's age, swimming was her passion, her obsession, and the object of what, in an otherwise ordinary girl, the youngest of three daughters from an ordinary Mansfield family, amounted to truly extraordinary willpower.
In a small rural community such as this, where minute fluctuations in the timetable of the weekly mobile library service pass for excitement, the fascinating spectacle of watching the old red telephone kiosk being winched from its prominent spot in the village square by a team of BT workers and an electronic hoist amounted to a truly noteworthy event.
Lost in this faux debate is the reality that our debt now looms so large because the government had to bail out many of those same corporations, quite a few of which, like General Electric and AIG, pay no taxes and have no problem paying truly obscene amounts to their top executives.
