This emphasis on pragmatism over idealism has left Mr. Obama vulnerable to criticism that he is losing the battle for the hearts and minds of the Arab street protesters.
It was only a few years ago that the Wales head coach, Warren Gatland, said he had to find a place for Hook, who has been capped at full-back and in both centre positions as well as outside-half, in his match-day squad, but a direct style of play with emphasis on getting over the gainline has left a space-seeking player in the shadows.
The desire to protect and centralize medical assets since that time led to an emphasis on rapid evacuation, which in turn has left a video record, from Vietnam at least, of casualties being loaded onto helicopters with spouting arterial hemorrhage.
That has left Mr. Bush putting an emphasis on international issues but lacking a second-stage domestic agenda that rallies Republicans.
He believes, for example, that the United States should not have withdrawn all its troops from Iraq, and he says the president's emphasis on building up the American presence in Asia has left allies in Europe questioning where they stand.
An emphasis on consistency and durability over variety and flavor has left many of our favorite foods in peril.
According to Sadjadpour, a greater emphasis on East-West dialogue, rather than East-East, has left a regional void in communication, and may be the root of the bizarre absence of contemporary Arab art in Iran.
I studied the signatures that this pattern of gene duplication has left in the apple genome, with a special emphasis on genes duplicated during or after the formation of the Pyrinae lineage.
An emphasis on the letter of the law over the spirit of the law has left the layman confused.
With its images of perfected mankind, its emphasis on social and political egalitarianism, and its undermining of established authority, millennialism has left, even in failure, a legacy of social transformation.
