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And somehow, astonishingly, he adopted exactly the right tone to lead the shaken city through weeks of almost unbearable agony.
But, in the 2010 State of the Union address, President Obama adopted exactly the same metaphor and began using it incessantly.
That was exactly the sequence adopted by the Montreal Protocol of 1987, which has been successful in controlling the chemicals that threatened the ozone layer.
At that period, I regularly sported a black corduroy suit and was astonished to turn up at a pre-show press conference to find that Briers had adopted exactly the same costume for the role.
Frydenberg said it was a longstanding tradition on both sides of politics not to comment on on intelligence matters and said Abbott had adopted exactly the right approach in expressing regret but not an apology to Indonesia.
Appearing to read from a script, he says the Obama administration has adopted "exactly the same rhetoric used to rally support for the war in Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq in 2003".
"In antique sarcophagi the nereids who balance on the tails of tritons must have been studied from nature for they are in exactly the pose adopted by their modern daughters in Italy who occupy an equally precarious seat on the pillions of motor scooters".
A follow-up to my earlier post, on the so-called "Ground Zero mosque" (actually two blocks away from the site) and the morally weak gesture of acknowledging that Muslims have the right to build a community center while saying that they shouldn't exercise that right: Harry Reid has now adopted exactly that stance.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin August 16, 2010 A follow-up to my earlier post, on the so-called "Ground Zero mosque" (actually two blocks away from the site) and the morally weak gesture of acknowledging that Muslims have the right to build a community center while saying that they shouldn't exercise that right: Harry Reid has now adopted exactly that stance.
