Mr. Obama acknowledged the political uncertainties ahead even as, in typically understated tones, he marked the moment shortly before midnight at the White House.
Even as, in the nineties, the size of the armed forces shrank precipitously, the number of outside contract workers kept growing.
They barely scrape by even as, in the cities, over two decades of economic growth has forged a car-buying middle class.
We could see people fleeing from the finish line even as, in the distance, other weary marathoners kept running unknowingly toward the devastation.
That message is delivered in word by Israeli leaders even as, in deed, Israeli bulldozers continue to build settlements for Jews while demolishing homes for Palestinians.
The phrase "bonuses are back" echoed around the Square Mile even as, in the real world, dole queues were lengthening and the belts of non-bankers were being tightened.
Victory in the Napoleonic wars, a growing empire, and an industrial revolution brought wealth and security to bourgeois Britain even as, in the British Museum library, Karl Marx toiled to demonstrate the doom of this pleasant capitalist way of life.
Emma, one of the main characters in A Change of Climate, published in 1994, thinks of the Catholic church as a "bauble shop", even as, in bereavement, she visits a shrine to tap its sympathetic magic.
Britons and Americans have become strikingly intolerant of such individual acts as smoking tobacco (see article), and have extended the remit of crime and punishment in other areas, even as the wave of economic freedoms has washed over both countries and even as, in matters of sexual and other mores, both societies have become far more tolerant.
Though also snugly body-to-body, the figures are upstaged, as amorous characters, by the chic of their surroundings and clothing (even as, in "Country," Valadon's bonnet has an encore along with her partner's hat, which is now on the floor for some reason).
