During their private meeting, he told Mr. Nazarbayev "that we, too, are working to improve our democracy," a White House official later told reporters, a comment interpreted as soft-pedaling concerns over repressive Kazakh rule.
For its part, the McCain team was aggravated that Bush's address to Israeli lawmakers in May condemning appeasement of America's enemies, a comment interpreted as a slap at Obama, stepped on their candidate's speech the same day envisioning what a first McCain term would look like.
Vice President Al Gore, in comments interpreted as less than enthusiastic about the W.T.O.
After Miss Duarte was freed, rebels of the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front made public a tape recording in which she made comments interpreted in El Salvador as sympathetic to the guerrillas.
Bantering amiably with reporters about past comments interpreted as jabs at each other, the two cabinet secretaries both praised Mr. Maliki, the nominee of Iraq's Shiite voting bloc.
According to the Daily Telegraph's front page on Wednesday, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has "signalled that she may be willing to compromise on the issue of free movement", suggesting "in comments interpreted as a significant shift" that Britain "may be able to gain full control of its borders while retaining access to the single market".
Those comments, interpreted by some as a validation of the "Ferguson Effect" — a theory advanced by some that riots and racial unrest in places such as St .Louis and Baltimore have prompted police officers to become more restrained, resulting in upticks in violent crime that otherwise would not have occurred — almost immediately drew skepticism among groups advocating police reform.
She came off sobbing through puffy, red eyes but insisted, her comments interpreted by a team official, that she wanted to do better "next time".
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls recently hinted he could work with Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, comments interpreted as a thawing in relations between the two parties.
