The Labour Party, in particular, scored badly, crashing from 19 to 13 seats.It will not be easy for Mr Netanyahu either, despite the right-leaning block, led by Likud, gathering 65-66 seats.
But a mixture of cost, economic viability and continuing objections from the US military suggests the Foreign Office is leaning towards blocking their return.
Mr. Russert, who has already grilled all the contenders to exhaustion on past shows, chose to look ahead to Super Tuesday — relying on a flashy electronic map of primary states and their probable leanings blocked out in Jell-O shades of purple and orange and green.
John O'Malley points out that even earlier than the Isaiah is Raphael's inclusion of the figure of Heraclitus in the School of Athens, a brooding figure similar to Michelangelo's Jeremiah, but with the countenace of Michelangelo himself, and leaning on a block of marble.
By this time he was leaning over me, blocking my view of the ceiling fan.
Works by Still, the institution's Abstract Expressionist namesake, had begun arriving in the galleries a couple of days back, and now the 60 paintings that were going on view had been unpacked and propped on blocks, leaning against the walls.
"LET'S talk about the use of deadly force," Lenny Smittner Jr., the N.R.A.-certified instructor, said, leaning on a cinder-block wall pocked with 22-caliber bullet holes.
In a dark corner of the room, leaning against the cinder-block wall and silently watching the children play, sat a surviving fighter of the Palestinian resistance, in hiding.
It's impossible not to imagine this mad motherfucker leaning out of a tower block window, an AK in each hand, gleefully cutting down oncoming Russian troops.
Mr. Uglow always played the physical solidity of his efforts against their optical radiance, thickening his stretcher bars so that his paintings protruded farther from the wall, hanging his works close to the ground or even simply leaning them, set on tiny blocks, against a wall.
It means summoning up the courage, in such a place, to interrupt people while they are reading, to wake them while they are sleeping and to ask the more disagreeable among them why they seem to like blocking doors and leaning on poles.
