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Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Iranian state media over the weekend that the sanctions amounted to a repackaged version of decades-old American pressure tactics that Tehran has already learned to withstand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Patterson's lawyers are now arguing the hotel mix-up amounted to a "fundamental irregularity" which "fatally undermined" the integrity of the verdicts.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
The prosecution's case is that Ajay Pant was the "master of the ship" and had "knowledge of the cargo", which amounted to some 98,000 tonnes of oil.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
But she agreed that July’s dozens-fold repeat of the 2023 attack pointed to a failure to implement and audit CISA’s earlier guidance—guidance that, again, merely amounted to “Set better passwords.”
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
That amounted to about thirty agents for each state.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
