The president has been elaborating on a theme of American competitiveness since he first articulated it in his State of the Union address in January.
Mr. Gore's interview on health care, initiated by his campaign, elaborated on a theme that he plans to address throughout a four-day trip this week.
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Bush elaborated on a theme that is near to his heart: the virtues of personal choice.
The "eight-legged essay" was the most important paper, an argument in eight sections that elaborated on a theme while quoting from classics such as Confucius and Mencius.
The writer describes his encounter with a pygmy at the Guest House bar in the southern Rwandan hill town of Gikongoro... Writer elaborates on a theme in their conversation: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is in fact real.
Elaborating on a theme the Obama administration has zeroed in on in recent days, Kerry said the US has been realistic about how quickly it will prevail against the Isis militants.
Except in the few movements where the strings hold the spotlight, or where the woodwinds and horns elaborate briefly on a theme, the orchestral scoring is secondary, and for long stretches the St. Paul musicians sat silently.
The planning of ground-level temples continued to elaborate on a single theme: a rectangular sanctuary, entered on the cross axis, with altar, offering table, and pedestals for votive statuary (statues used for vicarious worship or intercession).
Like the magazine, the book elaborates on an old theme: his belief that core economic values must shift from profit-making and expansion of the gross domestic product toward improvement of human health and protection of the planet.
In thereby altering Lacan's understanding of the imaginary or mirror stage, she attends to the pre-Oedipal mother/child relation in a way he does not, while also elaborating on an underdeveloped theme in Freud's work.
In his hands, Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies," for example, became an elaborate set of variations on a theme.
