With the ongoing wave of financial reforms, we may be witnessing the first deliberate policy effort to at least moderate one of the facets of contemporary globalization, the financial one.
Doyle finds this subject particularly intriguing because both belligerents engaged in what were "the first deliberate, sustained, state-sponsored programs aimed at influencing the public mind abroad" (3).
There are no televisions in the bedrooms - a shock at first - a deliberate ploy that results in guests meeting up in little wooden booths in the large sitting room to play chess and cards while children run around and make friends.
If we'd actually made the tinfoil and cardboard replica of the Champion's League trophy that we spent at least two seconds deliberating over making, we would have handed it over to him and doused the chap in champagne.
But Mr. Goldstone was at first known for a "deliberate, almost delicate" approach, Mr. Barwick recalled, lest he do anything to jeopardize the fragile underpinnings of the commission.
However, apart from certain cases, the thoroughness that characterises the selection of strategic partners and suppliers was not as deliberate at first.
Brodie asserts that at first Joseph Smith was a deliberate impostor; but at some point, in nearly untraceable steps, he became convinced that he was a prophet.
Moyer seemed to pick B. J. Upton off first base with two out, but Upton stole second by beating the throw from the deliberate Howard at first.
Bearded and balding, with longish hair ringing his bald pate, Corzine seems, even at first glance, to be more deliberate than dynamic.
The place is so wildly over-the-top that at first I thought it was a deliberate homage to EuroTrip, or the fantasy women's locker-room scene from Road Trip.
