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The At War blog has compiled significant moments from Admiral Mullen's time as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, including blunt statements about Iraq and Afghanistan, his strong declarations supporting repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that prevented gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the armed forces, and most recently his criticisms of Pakistan.
After Zimbabwe's blunt declaration at midnight Sunday that it would quit the storied 54-nation Commonwealth rather than submit to attacks on the president's authoritarian rule, one question cried for an answer: What difference will it make?
His style, he said, is simply to try to win games, the kind of blunt declaration that one of his previous managers, Martin O'Neill, would deliver.
But the NPC's blunt declaration this week will only heighten antagonism.
The White House has avoided the same blunt declarations.
But beyond the blunt declarations, he wants to see Trump distinguish between the truly dangerous and criminal and the rest.
The music thrills more than it intrigues; it prefers to make blunt declarations, not thoroughly persuasive arguments.
There is no such thing as dialogue, just his blunt declarations, and the timid noises coming from the other end of the line.
(One early classic was "Whores in This House," a 1992 track with lyrics consisting entirely of a blunt — and not necessarily censorious — declaration: "There's some whores in this house").
It's a blunt comeuppance.
Journalism is a blunt technology.
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