Or maybe what the government needs is a stronger centre, ever-tighter control from Downing Street of the presentation of government policy?If that is the direction in which Mr Blair is now inclining he would be wise to think again.
Most astonishingly, the researchers found that olfactory receptors are also implicated, giving a whole, new twist to the idea that someone's political platform "smells" wrong.The word "inclining" is important.
Its immense shale-gas potential might make it even less willing to pay up, inclining it to depend less on pipeline gas and to take the risk that it can smooth out ebbs and flows through spot markets.
But Democratic losses on November 3rd would certainly hurt Mr Obama, not least by inclining congressional Democrats in vulnerable seats to co-operate less wholeheartedly with his agenda.
The naval architect makes a careful assessment of the weight of the finished ship and checks its stability and loading particulars by reference to data for the ship's lightweight and centre of gravity, obtained from a simple inclining experiment.
The inclining test also provides a check on calculations.
Inclining to the views of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Bouterwek argued that philosophical certainty is based exclusively on the unique reality of man's insight into ultimate being.
The lily is a real painted lily, but the way it melds back into the patterning of the curtain behind it, thereby inclining us to regard it as more of a decorative than a symbolic object, slightly reduces its aura of sacredness.
By this time the idea of Pre-Raphaelitism has evolved through Aestheticism and into something else altogether, a kind of painting that has begun to shrug off the idea of particular subject matter, and is inclining towards Symbolism and even Surrealism.
Fusedale valley lay under a bruising sky and we set a good pace up its rapidly inclining side.
His teeth were wide apart, small and ill-kept; his hair was slightly curly and inclining to golden; his eyebrows met.…His complexion was between dark and fair.
