however much

It is not easy to accept that “it” is actually happening here — that the descent into right-wing authoritarianism could be so rapid, the institutions of democracy so weak, the orchestrator of it all such an obvious and venal perversion of the American ideal — and harder still to quit one’s economic dependence on a superpower, however much it may be imploding.

But there’s a hitch: However much art museums today express a commitment to social relevance, their programming is the opposite of nimble.

Erickson: It’s hard and it’s complicated because with the innie and outie dynamic, it’s sort of a zero-sum game, where however much life one of them has, that means the other has less.

But Celia Downie, who uses the train regularly for work and leisure, says she will continue to do so "however much it costs", because "I can work on the train and I believe it is environmentally proper to do so".

On Wednesday, however, much more attention was on Sasaki’s tantalizing potential.