As Mr. Gore has increasingly positioned his politics around his devotion to policy, Ms. Bianchi has become one of his most visible staff members.
The manager, therefore, must place commitment to people before assets, respect for innovation before devotion to policy, the messiness of learning before orderly procedures, and the perpetuation of the community before all other concerns.
Another "rigidity" has been Japan's - and to a lesser extent, Germany's - devotion to policies favoring exports over balanced trade and domestic economic development.
In a one-paragraph statement, Mrs. Clinton said she accepted Mr. Crowley's resignation with regret and praised him for his "deep devotion to public policy and public diplomacy".
Laffer's rankings are based on states' devotion to "15 policy variables" as viewed through their top marginal income and corporate tax rates, whether they levy an estate tax (big demerit for doing so), whether they have anti-union right-to-work laws (having them is a plus) and a relatively low minimum wage.
But they also say many Jews struggle with the agonizing counter-pulls expressed by Ms. Rothman — devotion to liberal social policies but a primal, if to some irrational, sense that Republican hawks might be better for Israel.
All seemed impressed by Boulder's scenic foothills beauty and devotion to open space policies.
Those advocates of civil liberties (some of them quite new to the cause) have a convenient explanation for why Democrats have been less vocal and slower to criticize the collection of metadata from everyday American citizens: slavish devotion to President Obama, whatever policies he might champion.
Although his resignation was clearly a major political problem for Mr. Gorbachev, Mr. Shevardnadze stressed that his devotion to Mr. Gorbachev and his policies remained strong, and voiced no criticism of the Soviet leader's plan, now before the Congress, to enlarge his presidential powers.
Mr. Shevardnadze, moreover, after declaring his devotion to Mr. Gorbachev and to his policies, and recalling that together they had done "great work in international affairs," added a pointed word: "but". In this context, his deliberate "but" almost certainly had the meaning of "yet" or "despite that". "But I think that it is my duty [ to resign ]..
Just before the referendum, 16 generals signed a round robin public protest against his Algerian Republic policy, declaring their devotion to the French Algeria.
