Fox said Climbié's case amounted to "a shocking tale of individual professional failure and systemic incompetence".

The first case amounts to blatant enough blood-lust; the second is merely contradictory.

Regardless of the outcome, the case amounts to another public relations bruise for the American detention system.

Mr. Stoute said the case amounted to "nothing more than false allegations."

Other lawyers questioned whether the case amounted to a form of celebrity justice.

The district attorney himself, according to an article in The Times-Picayune, knew that his case amounted to nothing, but he cynically pursued it to get publicity.

It's slightly amazing that they would impute criminal liability to what, in some cases amounts to the victims of crime.

For credit cards the worst case amounted to 1.8%, and for debit cards 16p per transaction.

A Berlin superior court ruled in 1991 that a similar case against his successor amounted to an unconstitutional ex post facto application of West German law.

His case amounts to a juxtaposition of short-term negatives for domestic stocks and long-term positives for foreign ones.