Informally, even before 1927, American broadcasters began to work out a set of rules for political access to the airwaves that virtually amounted to a system of private regulation of politics.
Particularly in the eyes of Plato, anyone who looks for the truth in phenomena alone, whether he interprets it subjectively or relativistically, cannot hope to find it there; and his persistence in turning away from the right direction virtually amounts to a rejection of philosophy and of the search for truth.
This rejoinder virtually amounts to the statement of a realist conception of truth: in cases where our initial cognition is overridden, the initial cognition was false all along; all that changes is our awareness thereof.
Maximum fines grew from $50,000 in 1955 to a virtually unlimited amount by 1991.
The law says you can give only $2,000 to the Giuliani or Clinton campaign, but virtually any amount whatever to soft-money committees.
Of course, money leaving the banks can become a self-fulfilling vicious cycle that virtually no amount of bank bailouts can plug.
Mr. Page, who declined a request for an interview, has already promised Google Ventures $200 million this year and says a virtually unlimited amount is available, Mr. Maris said, as Google reconnects with its start-up roots.
For the dead, however, virtually no amount of money will secure a final resting place in the heart of a city that is fast running out of graveyard space.
While E.T.F.'s can be bought in virtually any amount because they are traded on stock exchanges, mutual fund providers set minimum investments to eliminate prospective shareholders for whom their funds may be inappropriate.
Some 25 years after "Jane Fonda's Workout" topped the home-video charts in the United States, Americans' fascination with instructional videos has shifted to the Internet, where a virtually unlimited amount of shelf space guarantees there is something for everyone.
