Refugee support organisations have been getting many reports of a deliberate "push back policy" by the Greek police and coastguard in which survivors claim boats are shoved from Greek waters back into Turkish ones, a dangerous tactic at sea and at night when most of the smugglers' boats operate.
But that opera represented a deliberate pulling back from chromatic extremism.
His re-learned throwing action begins with a deliberate drawing back of his hand followed by a pause that seems to keep the dart stationary for several seconds.
He marked the spot on the carpet, one inch by one inch, then took two deliberate steps back, then two to the side.
"The evidence in this case made clear that the defendants made a deeply personal and deliberate decision back in 2014," said United States attorney Andrew Luger.
La La Land might be set in contemporary Hollywood but it's a deliberate hark back to the golden age with extravagant set-pieces and a relative lack of cynicism.
With her pure, light voice and guitar playing over string arrangements, the album was a solitary experience, and a deliberate step back, the willful reverse of the mind-blowings then going on in London.
Heading into the season it was clear that teams like the Philadelphia 76ers, Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics would take a (possibly deliberate) step back thanks to an offseason that saw them part ways with some of their best players.
When he sings, in the closing triumphalist march "Big City", that "Everybody's a star/You're the most pretty", it's a deliberate nod back to the collectivist uplift of "Everybody Is A Star"; and if that isn't former Family Stone bass legend Larry Graham slapping out that intro to "Stare", somebody's doing a damn good impression of him.
In late October, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton and other cabinet-level administrators met to deliberate on backing this approach.
