Ironically he was written up by General Wes Clark, the former Nato commander and Democrat presidential hopeful, who was also booted out after political altercations in Washington, though in his case it was the tangle over Kosovo that brought him down.
Serious legislation and political altercations have occurred in the 19 lame-duck sessions held by Congress since 1940, including the censure of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy; a gas tax increase; a huge and contentious land preservation measure; and, in 2010, a vote to overturn a 17-year ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military.
Political altercations hint at a threat to the security of Todefright, their fancifully named home, due to the social activism of Humphry Wellwood, Olive's husband.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, for example, representing local, state and federal researchers in the U.S., have filed a legal petition to require the U.S. Department of Agriculture to adopt policies to prevent "political suppression or alteration of studies and to lay out clear procedures for investigating allegations of scientific misconduct" [ 32].
Henry's basic concern was political, but the alterations in the structure of the church gave scope for a reformation that was religious in character.
FOR Plato the art of music was so firmly anchored in moral and political reality that any alteration to the musical system would necessarily require a corresponding political shift.
(He notes a portrait of Lenin that Grover Norquist displayed on his wall as a symbol of ruthless commitment, and he remarks on the fact that some of his erstwhile comrades, such as Horowitz, made the transition from far left to far right without the slightest alteration in political style or temperament).
The legal changes being introduced by the Conservatives have been condemned as the most unfair alterations to political parties' funding since the second world war.
With some important alterations in political tone and moral attitude, Lewis's central idea, like the name of his hero, has survived depression, war, the rise of the suburbs, the revolt of the cities, feminism, the sexual revolution, the counterculture, multiculturalism and the Internet.
On my return I found that there had been little alteration in the political scene save, that the threat of a death penalty for sabotage had now become a fact.
