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For Ukraine, the announcement amounts to a critical reprieve for President Volodymyr Zelensky, after a humiliating attack in the Oval Office a fortnight ago by Trump and Vice-President JD Vance, having pleaded for a future US security guarantee.

Optimists may tell you that this tumult amounts to the birthing agony that precedes a new age of journalism, and they’re probably correct to some degree.

It all amounts to a giant waste of money, Skoufis said, because their advice, encapsulated by the Biden administration trying to persuade Americans that their perception of a difficult economy was not rooted in reality, is "totally removed from the desires, needs, and motivations of working class and middle-class voters."

All of this amounts to “a dramatic expansion” of the federal government’s role in education, in Perera’s words.

If the death penalty serves neither retributive nor deterrent purposes, then it amounts to the purposeless infliction of pain, the very definition of cruelty prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.