That assessment sounds like the now-familiar combination of pragmatism and patience that Mr. Obama has tried to make the hallmark of his approach to foreign policy.
After campaigning in 2005 on a bold — and unfulfilled — promise to cut property taxes 40percentt, he now says the state cannot afford any big-picture ideas, and could not name a high-profile issue that he would make the hallmark of his second term.
In the grip of that Emersonian conviction, one may or may not subscribe to the existence of a personal God, but it should not be the case that constitutional protection depends on a commitment to theism, for that would be to make the hallmark of religion something that is alien to the lives of many people.
Philosophically, Galileo has been used to exemplify many different themes, usually as a side bar to what the particular writer wished to make the hallmark of the scientific revolution or the nature of good science.
The title notwithstanding, it does not make for Hallmark-card copy.
He said: "The deal marks a major continuation of the tidy-up of the portfolio that Colao has made his hallmark".
The occasion was replete with the kind of religious and patriotic symbols that nationalist Bosnian Serb leaders made their hallmark during the 1992-1995 war.
Executed by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams, Julian and Sandy's quickfire Polari - that mixture of gypsy language, cockney backward slang, and thieves' cant - slotted right into the verbal surrealism that the Goons had made the hallmark of British comedy.
Mr. Bush delivered his latest pledge to work with Democrats at North Carolina's fourth annual state conference on improving achievement among minority and disadvantaged students, an issue he has made a hallmark of his presidential run.
