much as

"You are attending a religious ceremony and it's incumbent on you to participate as much as possible."

As much as Joe desperately wants to believe that love is the motivator for his actions, he isn’t truly seeking love.

"I started having birth pangs pretty much as we started leaving Carlisle," she said.

It should be no surprise that Yee, an athlete obsessed with the process of improvement as much as the success it brings, has relished this new challenge.

“A moral man who led an immoral life, an idealist who had betrayed his ideals. No one despised Richard as much as Richard himself.”