This parallel is made both explicit and more complicated when "Hunger" turns its attention to Bobby Sands, who starved himself to death, along with nine other prisoners, in the hunger strike that followed the blanket action.
This blanket action offends my sensibilities.
NYPD officials were reportedly considering banning so-called "career criminals" from the subway system as of last week though that sort of blanket action likely wouldn't be legal.
They were strangers before take off and all over each other by the time we landed a lot of under-the-complimentary-blanket action happening.
Shame is a concept that blankets American actions as it responded to that grave day.
However, eight Republicans voted for the bill, breaking their party's blanket opposition to action on climate change, and allowing Obama to claim a share of bipartisan support for his energy reforms.
The same would go for legalising torture or repealing the Fourth Amendment, giving police blanket immunity for any actions taken in the line of duty.But the object of a justice system is to enforce justice, not to satisfy police and prosecutors.
Mr. Bush's advisers deny that he is unilateralist or isolationist, or that his administration has a blanket disdain for group action as a way of conducting world affairs.
President Bush's advisers said his rejection of various international accords and threat to skip a conference on racism did not indicate that he was unilateralist or isolationist or that the administration had a blanket disdain for group action in the conduct of world affairs.
