I'm one of those guys who put a lot of thought into the process they say they use, which is obviously a bunch of rhetoric. If you put the numbers out there, it just does not make sense. Every year there are two or three teams that feel as if they've done enough to justify their way in. It happens every year. Unfortunately for us, it happens to be us.
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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
The latest change in rhetoric -- especially from the previously reluctant government officials -- increases speculation of a March policy shift.
Part of the strategy is keeping the rhetoric up to remind the Syrians that they are not out of the box yet and that Lebanese democracy has the full support of the Western powers.
I think America and the world wants us to show the outrage not by rhetoric, but by taking action,
We are neighbors and I would hope that there would be a dtente on hostile rhetoric,
Everybody is looking forward to a political settlement, What we need at this stage is cool- headed approaches. We need for people to lower the rhetoric.
There's a little nervousness in the air regarding heightened geopolitical news. The rhetoric from Iran is not helping.
The longer this sort of rhetoric goes on, the less people will make the effort to stay together with people they disagree with. I can't see them wanting to leave each other alone.
There are forces in the world whose soul is against the unity of the Slav peoples. Those forces, using peaceful rhetoric, want to break that unity apart and are engaged in attempts at spiritual and political expansion,
From Chirac and Schroeder we have seen a rhetorical commitment for France and Germany to co-operate but when they have combined it has been to block reforms. They have not produced an actual agenda for advancing the union, unlike the days of Helmut Kohl and Francois Mitterand, when France and Germany really were driving Europe.
On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the booksto understand what you are talking about.
If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.
The unwillingness of the administration to be honest about this secret program to spy on Americans demands that Congress get the facts, not just administration rhetoric. The truth can be determined without compromising national security. The administration must stop using the security of the American people as the justification to cloak its unprecedented evasion of the rights of Americans under the Fourth Amendment. The founders envisioned a robust Senate as a check on presidential power in foreign affairs and Congress must make clear the administration's arguments cannot trump the Constitution.
The so-called 'missile gap', a mainstay of Cold War rhetoric, was cited by the Kennedy campaign to justify its proposed increases in defense spending. Once in power, the Kennedy Administration proved less eager to publicize the embarrassing truth, that the United States had always been in a position of nuclear superiority. In short, the deterrent ratio might well shift to the Soviets so heavily, during the years of the missile gap, as to open to them a shortcut to world domination.... In the years of the gap, the Soviets may be expected to use their superior striking ability to achieve their objective in many ways which may not require launching an actual attack. Their missile power will be the shield from behind which they will slowly, but surely, advance....
I got my degree in rhetoric.
Let's take the time to clear the air of loathsome partisan rhetoric.
The rhetoric, I think, is more charged now and has been over the last five or six years than I remember it over the last 40 years. There's always been disagreements but you always had negotiations over hijacking, the immigration agreement, drug agencies.
Any argument that he comes up with that we are not dedicating the resources needed for our military men and women is just talk, pure rhetoric.
The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.
The committee wanted to send a message as to spreading the wealth. Despite the rhetoric we hear, I think there was a cap.
The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.
Short-covering has brought stocks back a little, but you've got very little volume and the rhetoric of the potential attack against Iraq and the September 11th anniversary hanging over markets.
It is true that programs are going to be hunting for dollars. And it is true there are more programs than dollars. But the civilian leaders are doing nothing to bring the budget in line. Even though we are hearing a lot of rhetoric from the office of the Defense secretary, we see they are going along with what the services want. It shows who is running the Pentagon.
Sadly, the reality of the international trading system today does not match the rhetoric. Instead of open markets, there are too many barriers that stunt, stifle and starve,
Can the United States live with a nuclear-armed Iran Despite its rhetoric, it may have no choice,
Sharon won't make any concessions to Abbas, but we will hear a lot of positive rhetoric. Sharon now will play for time because obviously elections are what matters to him and he doesn't want to be perceived as giving in to the Arabs.
The names reflect the Australian character. We're fairly relaxed and down to earth. We have the ability not to take ourselves to seriously as an advantage. We're competitive in business and sporting arenas, but we also like to enjoy life and not get bogged down in the rhetoric of wine snobbery.
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.
given the circumstances, the environment, the sense that we were responding to 911, and all of the urgency that was created by the rhetoric and cajoling of the administration.
This governor is spending 80 million of taxpayer money on an election that voters resoundingly have said is unnecessary. That is the most important figure. The rest is campaign rhetoric.
So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.
I find some of the rhetoric being used against this deal shameful and irresponsible. There is bigotry coming out here.
When you strip away the passion and the rhetoric, the simple fact is smoking is a hazard. The restaurants are a public work place. Therefore, it should be restricted.
This is undoubtedly a public relations blitz by Wal-Mart. They're trying to fend off state legislation, so this sounds like rather empty rhetoric. For a company that's virtually larger than any company in the world to be crying that they don't have the resources, I don't think too many people are going to give much credence to that.
Whatever the final language, it will be the benchmark of how other negotiations are judged. Since the auto workers won pensions in '48, a lot of things Detroit has done, for good or for bad, has set a pattern. This will be the case, even if the rhetoric of lifetime jobs guarantees outstrip the language.
It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.
His (Weber's) comments are across-the-board hawkish... But the market has to see action. The rhetoric doesn't excite the market anymore,
MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted to rhetoric.
We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.
Obviously, we're going to be dealing with thin markets. The influence of the holiday should dampen the war rhetoric, but if there are any surprises we could get exaggerated moves in prices for sure.
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.
We have got to solve the issues in accordance to today's situation. The facts on the ground have changed a lot. We can create stability and security in the region but not with the sort of rhetoric and language Mr. Bolton is using. What is needed is sensible people who can think of a long-term plan.
He's wonderful at stirring up an argument and slinging around rhetoric. ... For some of these people, it seems to be a theological issue. For us, it's an analytic issue.
My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.
You want results, not rhetoric. You want action, not promises. You want independence, not machine politics.
That's just the nature of democracy. Sometimes pure politics enters into the rhetoric.
If you look beyond the rhetoric and the media attempts to find differences, both of them obviously want to find a way to win the war on terrorism and both of them want to succeed in Iraq.