Even the threat of a primary challenge can move incumbents to vote more wisely--as was true when Arlen Specter began shifting his votes after Joe Sestak first filed against him.
And unlike so many other root beers, Virgil's has components that are all of the earth, as was true when the term root beer was coined.
(The fanatics deny that a pregnancy police is the necessary and natural consequence of their actions, but if you have a law that equates abortion with murder, someone is going to have to enforce it, and its enforcement demands a police force, surveying doctors' offices for evidence of the presence of desperate pregnant women, just as was true when Morgentaler started out in Canada.
As was true when Harvard's president found himself swirling in controversy for questioning some of the sacred cows of the academic enterprise, it's the students who appear best to understand that the ability indeed, the willingness to raise hard questions is a prerequisite, not a failing, in an academic leader.
As was true when Harvard's president found himself swirling in controversy for questioning some of the sacred cows of the academic enterprise, it's the students who appear best to understand that the ability--indeed, the willingness--to raise hard questions is a prerequisite, not a failing, in an academic leader.
It is difficult to credit any one religion as being True or any one god as being True when there have been so many throughout human history.
This is true when, as in the case of my friend, the information (i.e., her tardiness) is incorrect.
Suspension of judgment provides the former in that one is not disturbed about which of two opposing claims is true, when (as always seems to happen) one cannot rationally decide between them.
It is often said that this generation of teenagers and 20-somethings is the most savvy one ever in its ability to critique and understand commercial persuasion, and it is probably true — just as it was true when the same thing was said of Generation X and of the baby boomers before that.
A national ballistic fingerprint system would not work immediately because, as was true of fingerprints, when they were first introduced in the late 1920s, a limited number of guns would be entered at first, Mr. Rossi said.
