The foreign ministry's insistence on reviewing the treaty so soon after taking office has also distracted both sides from a more important topic: the need to recalibrate their alliance, which next year turns 50, in a way that better reflects post-cold-war realities.Mr Hatoyama's difficulties come, in part, from the DPJ's coalition partners.
"If that happens, there are no limits," Mr. Horowitz said of the insistence on a review of his news-media moments.
In return, the United States dropped its insistence on a formal review of Brazil's policy at the W.T.O. but reserved the right to revive its complaint if the consultation process fails.
They said Tillerson's deliberate approach to reviewing candidates and his insistence on a detailed department management review and reorganization, informed by his corporate background, has slowed down an already slow process.
Many published papers were flawed, despite leading medical journals' sometimes arrogant insistence on a high standard of peer review.
His music - a roaring melodrama of mythical losers and stalled ambition - steadily refuses to be overshadowed by journalists' pig-headed insistence on mentioning his gender in every review.
Similarly, the government's insistence on a "health check" that allows it to review the new charter after five years will leave the broadcaster looking over its shoulder in every parliament, just as it has done in this one.
However, his continued insistence on using modern, easy English gave way to a negative review by Mint.
The insistence on sameness in the case of autism reminds one of it too.
In his review of the documentary "Bully," A.O. Scott wades into the debate over the insistence on an R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America's rating board.
Manohla Dargis wrote, in her review for The New York Times, "the genius of 12 Years a Slave is its insistence on banal evil, and on terror, that seeped into souls, bound bodies and reaped an enduring, terrible price".
