In this case, the message that was sent about Mercedes's commitment to preserving its heritage was more important than the experience of driving a handful of underpowered, hard-to-shift cars.
In these cases, the messages that were transmitted about home quarantine and school closures seemed to be poorly understood.
But good satire has to be non-partisan (see Team America); otherwise, as with An American Carol, the subject of mockery is merely a vehicle to awkwardly and patronisingly ram home a message – in this case, the message that the Iraq war was justified, and anyone in disagreement (ie lily-livered liberals) is unpatriotic and doesn't deserve the right to call themselves American.
Mr. Everts said officials put pressure on their subordinates in "universities, hospitals, military encampments," and in some cases conveyed the message that "if there is not 100 percent turnout, severe penalties will be involved".
In this case, the messages that were retained because of that particular threshold will be aggregated into a single message (line 19).
The Minova case "sent the message that the top guys are protected, no matter what", Géraldine Mattioli-Zeltner, advocacy director of Human Rights Watch's international justice programme, states in a video on HRW's site.
Though he was tried and imprisoned on economic charges, Mr. Khodorkovsky had been financially supporting opposition parties, and his case sent the message that Russia's business titans were no longer allowed to break from the Kremlin on political matters.
Additionally, that responsibility should not rest on the shoulders of the fans, no matter how exceptionally they rallied in this case, to rectify the message that Harris's image needs to remain visible.
In the first case, imposing fines for lateness implied that lateness was expected and okay, as long as parents paid; in the second case, rewards sent the message that altruism is something you do for reward, not because it's inherently gratifying.
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