Any president trying to accomplish something with Congressional approval either needs a majority of the House and 60 votes in the Senate, or needs to compromise with an opposition party ever further away on the ideological spectrum.
Instead, he was "led higher and higher by an invisible hand, ever further away from my modest goals".
And, further, what would it mean, at the same time, to remember that I live in a society growing ever further from the manna ideal, a world where there is enough for all?
Set in a dystopian world during the year 2052, the central plot follows rookie United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition agent JC Denton, as he sets out to combat terrorist forces, which have become increasingly prevalent in a world slipping ever further into chaos.
Unfortunately, I think he's more likely to act like an alien, embrace religion ever further, subjugate enough hookers to make Genghis Khan look abashed and probably smoke some more weed.
Brothels, raunchy bars and other pick-up joints spread north from the Battery in the 1740s, through the SoHo cast-iron district a century later and ever further uptown in later years.The authorities tolerated them for a price.
The needle on a pressure gauge twitches ever further into the red.
After a generation of standing ever further back from the business of finance, governments have been forced to step in to rescue banking systems and the markets.
It was, he said, "a concentrate of various emotions: desire for justice, and the effort, the path we have followed in this dark tunnel towards a light that seemed ever further away".
The assumption that all EU countries would eventually join the euro has gradually eroded as first Denmark and then Sweden voted to reject membership of the single currency and a British decision moves ever further into the future.
