If the Kremlin decides to tough it out, it will signal a return to a more "normal" kind of authoritarian politics, a shift from the remarkable "rally around the flag" approving response to Putin's annexation of Crimea in 2014.
By indicating that engaging in an arms race is a U.S.-approved response to the deal with Iran, and by saying he wants to see regional powers take matters into their own hands without suggesting any parameters for what they should do, Obama created a situation that made Saudi aggression almost inevitable.
One potential for uncertainty in interpretation of these results is the possibility that there might be a greater tendency to give socially approved responses among one of the groups.
The approved emotional response to her story is nonchalance – and if it's what she wants and needs, I'm happy to oblige.
The disaster package, now awaiting consideration in the Senate, would be the second installment of aid money that Congress has approved in response to this year's hurricanes, after a $15.3 billion relief measure in September.
That sentiment appears to be particularly strong in California, where big rate hikes approved in response to the power crisis are showing up in electricity bills.
Unless Congress or the Obama administration takes action on a shortsighted national security law approved in response to the 9/11 attacks, the nation's air travel system will get turbulent on Jan . 1 , 2010
Her achievement was met with a generous, wholly approving response from the crowd and amounts to a vindication of those involved in her training, who gave her the green light to compete here a fortnight ago.
On Thursday, Malloy announced a list of five proposals that he wants the General Assembly in Connecticut to approve in response to the Sandy Hook massacre.
In charismatic fashion, he took command of the crowded gym and masterfully orchestrated a crescendo of approving responses as he fired off his rhythmic, rhyming chants in a breathless barrage.
