It focused instead on policies and practices that Mr. Fine maintained were poorly handled.
Family-owned houses that could no longer be maintained were, meanwhile, frequently sold to developers by non-resident Indians.
Explorations, he maintained, were the essence of music; they were his musical bread and wine.
The broad masses of the population, it maintained, were still loyal to the crown.
The Georgetown graduate and self-described former "spoiled brat" says the deepest friendships he made and maintained were with people in Libya.
In the weeks leading up to the Taliban's collapse, Northern Alliance troops often spoke of the hordes of foreign soldiers who they maintained were arrayed against them.
But after Gordon Brown's hour-long speech today, David Cameron put up a sparkling performance, castigating the chancellor for combining high levels of taxation with record borrowing, and for what Cameron maintained were poor results in public sector reform.
The looters, he maintained, were looking for gold, but, finding only gold-painted statues, threw them out, not realizing that they were valuable anyway; one piece, he said, was found in a trash can in Tahrir Square.
And they would get their wish, Clinton maintained, were it not for the cynical maneuverings of interest groups and operatives who deliberately contrive to invent and exaggerate conflicts and make people frustrated and distrustful".
The administration also blocked access to the steps of City Hall for what it maintained were security concerns, until a federal court ruled that the city was violating the constitutional right of assembly.
One sentence near the end summed up his message in boldface capital letters: "You are hereby ordered to cease and desist" saying unpleasant — and what the lawyer maintained were untrue — things about the developers he represents.
