"It isn't what Skylight says which animates her, it's what she can be.
This week's Senate activity, centred on the Sarbanes bill, may well mark the climax, rather than the start, of the Democrats' reformist zeal.Most important, there are few signs yet that cleaning up corporate America is an issue that animates the voters.
Even if a new government passes the legislation, India's cumbersome courts tend to delay justice to the point of denying it.New laws may matter less than the spirit that animates them.
That these are the only taxes he is prepared to raise plays to the suspicion of conservatives that redistribution animates him more than balanced budgets.Of course, it would be politically and economically reckless to advocate for higher taxes across the board now.
Or, more precisely, with the idea that animates the system: that you should pay executives according to their performance.Performance-related pay has been a relatively recent innovation in American boardrooms.
The idea that if you do wrong you get what's coming to you animates Westerns and crime fiction, both distinctly American genres; small wonder it should find fertile political ground too.
They were not people, but animals walking upright".Fear that the world could forget the horror of the Holocaust, or that it could happen again, animates those who do remember it ever more as their numbers dwindle.
It was she who injected into mainstream politics the notion that "Indian" and "Hindu" were synonyms, an idea that animates the current ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The ruling is at its weakest and snarkiest when addressing the argument about the democratic process that animates Judge Feldman's opinion: "Minorities trampled on by the democratic process have recourse to the courts," Judge Posner writes, "the recourse is called constitutional law".
It may be that a proper democratic spirit animates such calls.
The religious faith that animates southern life is undimmed.
