The Lib Dem MSP said the common practice of placing Shetland in a box off the Moray Firth or the Aberdeenshire coast was "intensely annoying" to islanders, and created a false impression of the challenges they face on account of their remote location.
The enterprise is elevated to something greater than a vulgar joke by Mr. Davis's nearly pitch-perfect impression of Mr. Obama, a challenge that many better-known comedians have struggled with (notably Fred Armisen, whose cool jazzbo Obama on "Saturday Night Live" is the antithesis of Mr. Davis's).
He says he would like to make a name for himself at the Olympic Games and that London in 2012 or 2016 would be a realistic target to create any sort of impression in terms of challenging fellow 400 metre runners.
While the photos give you the impression of how epic the challenges are plus maps and profiles for each race, the book also features interviews with some of the world's best ultra runners.
To give you an impression of the scale of the challenge, even Witherspoon had to hit the gym to build up enough strength to carry her backpack for filming.
While acknowledging that the explosion should have "challenged her impression of BP as a responsible company in which I was playing a key role," she also makes a case that when it came to the global projects on which she worked, the company made an effort to do the right thing — a contradiction that is playing out in many other companies as well.
The new BMW 5 series is about challenging your impression of BMW, and of car design in general.
Salacious as that may sound, Mr. Spoto does not manage to — and perhaps does not want to — seriously challenge an overall impression of Hitchcock's greatness.
Its tit-for-tat complaints at the WTO; its territorial disputes with its Pacific neighbors; the fall boycott of the IMF meeting in Tokyo; and the successful first-ever landing on China's newly acquired aircraft carrier: all reinforced the impression of a rising China that will challenge the liberal democratic order.
For all the good Hobbes did in shifting our political focus from God to man, he left the impression that the challenge of political theology would vanish once the cycle of fear was broken and human beings established authority over their own affairs.
