Given Kidd's illustrious career, though, those end-of-career failures will amount to nothing more than footnotes.
Cynics also say that inclination may amount to nothing more than giving to your favourite hobbies rather than tackling the basic needs of society.
If the reforms amount to nothing more than shuffling corporate assets, they will not have much effect (especially if the already stretched banks are forced to absorb most of the bad debt).
But the high-end system of seabed sensors and buoys, located off the coast of Sumatra, will amount to nothing unless the warning it picks up is relayed to every person on the beach.
That is partly because the City already does a huge amount of business that has nothing to do with sterling.
Unfortunately, because QE involves the exchange of one risk-free asset (bank reserves) for another (Treasury securities), QE does nothing to increase the amount of risk-free assets available to the market.
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In reality, the concern about a diminishing amount of productivity may be much to do about nothing.
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There is certainly a tremendous amount of cash on the sidelines earning next to nothing in savings accounts and bond funds to fuel a further rally.
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"We found in that study that certain varieties released more sugar than others, and in that same study we discovered that it had nothing to do with the total amount of sugars that were there, so we knew that it had to be something else that was causing the differences that we were seeing, " Dr Ray recalled.
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More than athletes in any other sport, baseball players spend an inordinate amount of time standing around doing nothing and just waiting for something to break the monotony.
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This means a huge amount of work often around the clock by teams of people with nothing to show for it for years at a time, if ever.
He told the hearing there was nothing in Mrs Richards' notes to show why the amount of pain relief had effectively been doubled on 18 August 1998 - at a time when she was already asleep or possibly unconscious.
With the overwhelming amount of real problems going on in the world, could you find nothing better to write about?
Further, I maintain that the insurance requirement has nothing to do with taxation until we note that its dollar-amount will soon appear on a W2, and that businesses will receive tax credits for their efforts.
"They have nothing positive to say about working with local authorities to improve recycling and cut the amount of rubbish going to landfill, " she said.
In high enough doses, it seems to have a positive effect on nervous system modulation, but the small amount in energy drinks likely does nothing.
Labour, which has launched a consultation on the case for statutory limits on the amount of sugar and salt in children's food, said the government was "doing nothing" to tackle the obesity crisis among children.
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