Shape-shifters of another kind, Hollywood action movies bend this way and that politically in a bid to please as many viewers as possible, but they almost always play out exactly the same, as entertaining violence leads to heroic individualism leads to the restoration of order.
Lawson bluntly told the rest of the cabinet that the poll tax was "completely unworkable and politically catastrophic" in a cabinet committee memorandum in May 1985 which he later described as "the most strongly worded attack" he had launched on any policy proposal while he was in government.
One expert on Central Asia with the Carnegie Foundation in Moscow, Aleksei Malashenko, said the latest attacks on an American ally had been coordinated and politically focused in a manner similar to that of the recent bombings in Spain.
The defense strategy during the retrial focused on assertions that the NCIS investigation that led to seven Marines and one Navy corpsman being charged in the killing was incompetent and politically motivated in a "rush to judgment".
I might quibble with some of her emphases, but her judgments are morally and politically sophisticated — in a word, judicious.
It's easy, and politically convenient, in a binary system to believe your opponents are lying liars who always tell lies.
Kagame dismissed these allegations as unsubstantiated and politically motivated; in a 2002 interview with newsletter Africa Confidential, Kagame said that if solid evidence against Rwandan officers was presented, it would be dealt with very seriously.
In the absence of a definitive science base, our assessment of the evidence identified areas for further investigation as well as non-pharmaceutical public health interventions that experts believe are likely to be beneficial, feasible, and socially and politically acceptable in an influenza pandemic.
Ending the individual and employer mandates may be shrewd politically in a GOP-controlled Congress, but it would create an unsustainable insurance system.
Malik was a member of an affluent and politically influential family in a region of Pakistan where religious schools are known as incubators of Islamist extremism.
