They voted to hold these workers and their families hostage to secure cheap election goals.
Powerful men and women in DC too are caught in a futile, broken embrace of their own: torn between meeting their narcissistic ambitions, short term election goals and grotesque greed for immediate influence and ascendant power.
The SNP met Salmond's pre-election goal of remaining the largest party by the number of councillors elected and of overtaking Labour as the largest party by share of the vote, as the SNP consolidated its hold on many councils along the east coast.
After his meeting with Mr. Samaras on Monday, however, Mr. Kouvelis ruled out joining a coalition with New Democracy and the Socialists, noting that his party had not changed its pre-election goals of ensuring that Greece remains in the euro zone, though under a new debt deal with its creditors.
Both Lapid and Bennett know that unless they can achieve their pre-election goals they will be kicked out.
American officials talk of the need for a vote that is merely "acceptable," purposefully avoiding the usual admonition of a "free and fair" election — a goal they say is too lofty given Afghanistan's situation.
After some more twists and turns, I sensed that we had reached the line he plans to use in a general election: "My goal is to save as many lives as possible, and I'll support anything that does that.
In the 2016 elections, the goal of the Koch network of contributors is to spend $889m, more than twice what they spent in 2012.
If Egyptians are allowed free and fair elections, a goal of the Obama administration, then, administration officials say, they will have to deal with the real possibility that an Egyptian government might include members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
In an interview published in the English-language Taipei Times on Saturday, Tsai said despite the party's recent gains in local elections, "our goal is to get back into central government".
He triumphed in a series of by-elections, but his goal was the parliamentary election of 1889, which he hoped to turn into a kind of national plebiscite.
