Despite a stated devotion to government transparency, he waited for years to speak publicly about drones and has yet to say a single word in public about the United States' offensive use of cyberweapons.
Just as excessive devotion to government can lead to totalitarianism, worship at the altar of the free market can lead to the anarchy of unsafe airports and a profit-driven health care system that risks being overwhelmed by a bioterrorist emergency.
He displayed intense devotion to classifying government documents, except when there was political advantage in declassifying them.
They are united in reverence for President Ronald Reagan, distaste for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and devotion to small-government Republicanism.
Doctrinaire Republicans detect in all this a heartfelt devotion to small government; moderates hear a touching concern for the fortunes of the little guy.
Some WSPU members were outraged by this sudden rigid devotion to the government, the leadership's perceived abandonment of efforts to win the vote for women, and questions about how funds collected on behalf of suffrage were being managed with regard to the organisation's new focus.
It is all just an actualization of Plato's extreme suggestion in his utopian Republic that the best way to persuade people to give their deepest loyalty and devotion to the government rather than their families is to have men and women exercise naked together, till the whole sexual arousal thing becomes old hat and boring.
Collector Thorne, who at first had been confident of his ability to prevent the march, was forced to report to his superiors, "If there ever existed a fervid sense of devotion to the (British) Government, it is now the defunct".
Dithering over Greece and key national governments' devotion to austerity began to exact a heavy toll last year.
Commitment to a limited government, devotion to the free market, or a wariness of change, Mr. Robin writes, are not the essence of conservatism but mere "byproducts" of one essential idea — "that some are fit, and thus ought, to rule others".
