But that speech was delivered at a time of relative economic prosperity and government surplus.
Mr. Grossman's comments, delivered at a time when Afghans are particularly apprehensive about their country's future, hit a tender nerve.
It's a shrug, really — a big, broad, uproarious shrug — delivered at a time when we assume that no one out there has the gall to muster ambivalence.
At the time, Cleopatra's significance was commercial – it was the latest and, all too problematically, the largest of the Hollywood epics, delivered at a time when the studios were losing power.
Asked what he had learned from the experience of the first budget, Hockey said the previous document was delivered at a time when commodity prices were higher and the world economy "was growing a little bit faster".
It provides a picture of the government's worst-case scenario, delivered at a time when both Mr. Freeh and Ms. Reno are under sharp attack for mismanaging the case.
Factor in that such success has been delivered at a time when financial strictures have curbed the franchise's transfer market clout, and Olsen's leadership shines even brighter.
In July, 1862, when Lincoln presented the Cabinet with a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, Seward warned that it could prompt foreign governments to intervene on behalf of the South, and said that it should be delivered at a time of military strength, not weakness.
England had chosen to field the same XI once more in the hope of significant improvement, but the manner in which the middle order failed to deliver at a time when they had been put in a position to bat Scotland right out of the game remains a cause for concern.
In addition, the introduction of higher £9,000 fees for all students not only acts as a worrying deterrent to the bright but disadvantaged, but puts further pressures on university humanities' departments to deliver at a time when the funding is being slashed.
