He held out the "prospect of Sunni tribes" rejecting Isis as a potential positive consequence of an Iraqi decision to substantially include Sunnis in the nation's governance, and hinted that further military aid would follow any such decision.
However, Ms. Weingarten, whose members have begun discussing the possibility of a strike, also said that she was "not wedded to any particular structure" of school governance, a hint that she may be willing to make more concessions on the management of the school system in exchange for a satisfactory contract.
He said in a statement Monday that he would help the company "resolve corporate governance concerns," then hinted that he had not been humbled.
But much of what she hinted at – stronger governance and a return to a broader remit for schools inspection – is so obviously necessary that it will surely develop into something more extensive.
The cities are crippled, too, by a collapse of municipal services that hints at a larger failure of governance in the country.
For political obsessives, the exciting thing about Mr Walker is that he gives a hint as to how far conservative governance can be pushed.
But intriguing hints can be found in obscure places, like the corporate governance reports that some big companies have taken to posting on their Web sites, which show their donations to trade associations.
Mr. Silver and Steven Sanders, the Democratic chairman of the Assembly Education Committee, hinted yesterday that they would approve a change in school governance only if the state and city increased the amount of money they sent to New York City schools.
His account of his tenure at the World Bank hints at how America, while pressing developing countries to follow rule-based governance, blithely bent the rules so as to force the World Bank to do things that helped secure America's interests.
As well as hinting he would like to see the BBC's regulatory and governance body disbanded, Bradshaw, a former corporation journalist, used his first major speech to say "the BBC probably has reached the limits of reasonable expansion".
