Monday, October 6, 2014
Examples
“Ayman al-Zawahiri, deputy to Osama bin Laden, spoke for more
than an hour and a half about the need to press on with the fight against the
"Zionist crusader project" and to coalesce
around the efforts of the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq.”-Washington Post
“Seeking
a charismatic, youthful and unrepentant champion who also holds traditional GOP
views on foreign and economic policy, many leading figures in the conservative
movement have begun to coalesce
around Cruz, 43, as their best shot at elevating a fellow hard-liner.” -
Washington Post
“What
more proof do we need of the decadence
of the Western governing class?”-Washington Post
“I don’t know who the true God is, if he is Jew, Muslim,
Christian or someone else, but he is definitely disgusted by the malevolence
and decadence of His –what should
have been- perfect creation, humanity.” –CNN
“La
Sylphide...exemplary, among the
finest achievements in this company’s history.” Los Angeles Times
“Save room for these exemplary hotel restaurants” – CNN
“The Dow is having its best winning streak since November
1996 -- less than a month before Greenspan uttered the now infamous
"irrational exuberance"
phrase.” – CNN
“What
these researchers wanted to know is whether traders’ neurology makes bubbles bubble
or, put another way, whether there’s something going on in the brain that
controls their “irrational exuberance,”
the term made famous by former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan.” –
Washington post
“Because
of the changes that Congress made in Section 702, the Privacy and Civil
Liberties Oversight Board reported that the volume of untargeted collection —
and incidental U.S. content within it
— have grown exponentially.” – Washington Post
“However, if the campaign activity is "incidental" to the official trip,
the expense doesn't need to be split up. In this case, Landrieu's Senate office
picked up the whole cost of the trip.” – CNN
“The trust fund for Social Security disability benefits,
which is separate from the fund for retirement benefits, is on track to be insolvent -- most likely by the end of
2016 but no later than 2017.” - CNN
“WASHINGTON -- The nation's Social Security and Medicare
programs are sliding closer to insolvency,
the federal government warned Monday in a new report underscoring the fiscal
challenges facing the two mammoth retirement programs as baby boomers begin to
retire.” - L.A. Times
“On
the one hand, he was very philanthropic, on the other hand he was very parsimonious.” – CNN
“In
domestic legislation, Mr. Jacobs, who served in a district representing parts
of Indianapolis, called himself a “parsimonious
progressive” who sometimes skewered both sides of the political spectrum.” –
Washington Post
“The 48-year-old prodigal
son was not always so eager to take his father's path and preach the gospel.
Franklin Graham was a self-described bad boy who rebelled against his father's
saintly ways.” – CNN
“Williams went as far as to compare Bergdahl, who deserted
his post, of being akin to the Prodigal
Son from the Bible.” – Red State
“Lithgow’s
emotional accessibility is an attribute employed to distinct advantage in
director Daniel Sullivan’s visually appealing, three-hour mounting of the
play, especially in its later phases, after Lear is stripped of dignity and
sanity, and is left to writhe in the
mire of his monumental folly.” – Washington Post
“Precisely what happened during the execution of
convicted murderer and rapist Clayton Lockett remains unclear. Witnesses
described the man convulsing and writhing
on the gurney, as well as struggling to speak, before officials blocked the
witnesses' view” - CNN
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