The right-wing Tea Party types realized years ago what progressive activists and groups are much less likely to face -- that namby-pamby "lobbying" gets much weaker results than identifying crucial issues and making clear a willingness to mount primary challenges.
Instead, we should make clear a willingness to sit with any leadership willing to negotiate a bilateral agreement.
Still, in looking to a Bush administration that has made clear a willingness to allow timber, mining and energy interests more latitude in operating on public lands, none among the Democrats were willing to predict that they and Ms. Norton would always see eye to eye.
I recommend doing this without an agenda and expecting nothing in return, but if you do plan on making an ask, a willingness to return the favor will probably earn you more than the deed itself; you might end up building a fruitful, lasting relationship.
For Gilbert, adopting a convention is making manifest a willingness to promote a certain fiat.
Mr. Obama has been clear in making a distinction between his willingness to talk "not just to countries we like, but those we don't," as he puts it, and Hamas and other political movements similar to it.
It also eliminated a ban on the reclassification of documents and information already released; reversed a Carter provision that forbade the classification of a document after a request for it had been made; reversed a willingness to resolve doubts in favor of declassification; and curtailed declassification-review practices in the National Archives and other executive agencies and departments.
Bartelstein said a sign-and-trade deal was another option, but that would require Lee to have leverage (in the form of a big offer) and the Knicks to have a willingness to make a deal, which is doubtful.
The sheer scale of Saturday's attack pointed to Al Shabaab's increasing sophistication in bomb-making, a willingness and ability to cause mass civilian casualties, and the failure of the internationally backed government to provide basic security.
Both China and India, which have long resisted emissions targets, have recently signalled a willingness to make a deal.
Mentoring organizations say the main qualifications for volunteers are a willingness to make a time commitment and build a bond with a young person.
