The changing dynamic speaks to the larger troubles facing Democrats in this swing state.
Vazquez dodged larger troubles over the course of five and a third innings, but he served up home runs to Travis Buck and Kurt Suzuki.
In the best of these moments, the speaker does not just salve the current political wound, but also illuminates larger, troubling issues that the nation is wrestling with.
"But the inability of officials to deal with this successfully over a year and a half inspires little confidence in their ability to deal with much larger troubled countries such as Italy".
It would have been good, anyway, to see more of this investigation of Indian identity — which was set against a larger, troubled backdrop of Americana — and less of the night's other works.
Of course, my mind-numbing experience is a reflection of the Mets' larger troubles during the first half of this season, when a lineup often filled with backups looked repeatedly overmatched.
Some believe the student debt crisis reflects larger, troubling trends in higher education -- among them excessive spending by colleges and universities, which drives up tuition, and declining government support for public universities as state and local governments face budget crises.
In June, the Financial Services Agency disciplined UFJ for trying to conceal the extent of its bad loan problem from inspectors by doctoring or concealing documents describing the condition of some of its largest troubled borrowers.
