Bolger would prefer a "treaty", presented to the Senate for ratification, to forthrightly state the open-ended commitment and requiring politicians to state their preference.
Setting the scene and forthrightly stating his intentions to win his reluctant lover's heart, Mr. Burstein reels through the same material a second time, just in case any latecomers missed it during the first go-round.
It really ought to emulate its original predecessor by forthrightly stating the costs — human, financial, and diplomatic — of the aggressive actions it is going to be advocating, and to say who should bear them.
It really ought to emulate its original predecessor by forthrightly stating the costs—human, financial, and diplomatic of the aggressive actions it is going to be advocating, and to say who should bear them.
And then the rift, with a great public university forthrightly stating that Meyer, its most prominent (and best-paid) employee as well as an ostensible moral exemplar, had fallen short — not only in his mishandling of the assistant, but in his misstatements to the news media and his possibly deleting public records.
Overall, however, Brand deserves credit for forthrightly stating that "when the facts change, I change my mind". He deserves credit, too, for asking to be held accountable for his book's predictions and for providing a website, Longbets.org, where one can go to tell him that he's wrong.
("They tell me that we have 97 minutes here tonight," he says wryly, "without intermission"). Setting the scene and forthrightly stating his intentions to win his reluctant lover's heart, Mr. Burstein reels through the same material a second time, just in case any latecomers missed it during the first go-round.
He forthrightly states what he believes, at all times.
But in a debate against nonscientists, that refusal to be definitive can be a weakness, leaving the door perpetually open for plausible-sounding refutations built on shaky evidence and a willingness to forthrightly state conclusions.
