Prosecutors portrayed the aid workers as remorseless kidnappers bent on exploiting Chad's children.
In Arab countries, reports about the American-British draft resolution were touching off other concerns, and Mr. Hussein seemed bent on exploiting them.
Last season, Portia's character on a network cop show was killed off; this season, she auditions for a part in a production about Charles Manson, for a director who is bent on exploiting her.
But Erdoğan's campaign was based on fear: of physical and economic insecurity, of the Kurdish minority, of Isis and other extremists, of Syrian refugees and European governments bent on exploiting Turkey for their own ends.
Despite the interest that collaborative authorship would thus hold, the idea still seemed somehow insulting to the reader: as though the novels were cooked up by focus groups bent on exploiting our narrative desire and producing escapist diversions.
"Conduct remedies are particularly difficult to enforce against a company bent on exploiting any loopholes," he said, adding that Microsoft's continued insistence that it had done nothing wrong made it clear the government could expect little cooperation.
