Hinting at potential skirmishes as the straw poll approaches, Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas criticized Mr. Romney as having shifted his position on abortion as he moved from being governor of Massachusetts to running for president.
AFTER wobbling a bit on Friday, equity markets are rallying again today, despite the threat of renewed western sanctions against Russia and the potential for the skirmishes in eastern Ukraine to turn into a full-scale war.
But as the crisis in Egypt has intensified this week, elevating foreign affairs above domestic political skirmishes, the potential Republican candidates and the party's leaders in Congress have, with only a few exceptions, had little to say.
Together, the pre-election legal skirmishes were a potential preview of the clashes that could emerge in as many as a half-dozen swing states over Tuesday's voting.
The two nations are involved in a skirmish, which has the potential to cause havoc with the price of rubber.
Administering the nearly four-million-word federal tax code involves so many arcane legalities, and is so fraught with potential to ignite Washington's partisan skirmishes or infuriate taxpayers, that much of the I.R.S. is run by lawyers.
But with concerns already circulating about the new format's potential to instead incite intra-party skirmishes, some spectators had begun to worry that the reform could backfire even more bizarrely in this contest.
And what lends this skirmish extra juice is the potential divergence between procedural and substantive justice.
So there is really nothing of significant consequence to this courtroom skirmish, though it does highlight the potential that a significant minority of Elan's shares could still remain outstanding after Royalty Pharma's acquisition.
The dancing itself held the potential for minor injuries and there were occasional skirmishes.
