To win even more than just an election -- to help us all win the future -- President Obama needs a transcendent moral message that goes beyond economic arguments and taps into the sacred: the kind of sentiment for which the founding fathers were willing to pledge "our lives, our fortunes," more the freedom to hope and dream than just to make a living.
Both are vulnerable, both are unable to adequately protect themselves, both are reliant on us for protection and we have a responsibility to do so for both, a sentiment to which the vast majority of Americans now also subscribe.
It may not be the most fresh-minted putdown, but for many it was a sentiment to which their bosoms returned an echo.
That is a sentiment with which the pianist Fred Hersch agrees.
A sentiment with which Leary, no doubt, would agree.
However, looking at this decision from the principle of respect for autonomy, or freedom of choice, one can conclude that individual autonomy is a sentiment which is desirable for all human beings.
The range indicates whether scores are continuous or binary (we use the term binary for sentiment dictionaries for which words are scored as ±1 and optionally 0).
In any case we are, from the long view of history, in the very earliest days of trying to construct a world order, a global sentiment, in which concern for human rights is widespread and operative.
Parliament amended the Information and Communication Technology Act, which now states that publishing anything which "hurts or is likely to hurt religious sentiments" is an offence – one for which activists can be legally arrested without a warrant.
