"It's tough to come up with wording that precisely portrays proposals that themselves haven't been clearly defined," Gary Langer, director of polling at ABC News, wrote on his blog in August while noting the differences in the polls.
Precisely by portraying Jesus as rejecting the Law of Moses, in much of Christian interpretation, and substituting his own law that's Christian anti-Semitism.
The obvious objection to such ways of explaining the idea of crimes as public wrongs or harms is that, precisely by portraying crimes as wrongs done to 'the public', they distort their character as wrongs that merit criminalization.
On Sunday, Mr. Saakashvili repeated the criticism, but he added that the show had frightened people precisely because it portrayed a realistic future for Georgia if Russia had its way.
Students in my class who openly proclaimed that Christianity is the most valid religion, as some of you did last class, portrayed precisely what religious bigotry is.
This is precisely how the Nazis portrayed it.
It has gained support precisely by attacking globalization -- portrayed as the death of national culture -- and the high unemployment said to stem from untrammeled market forces and immigration.
And Hulu has "Becoming Bond," an unusual biopic of George Lazenby, who portrayed James Bond precisely once, in the 1969 film "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". Contrary to a lot of current conventional wisdom, "Service" was not just a hit but is also still highly rated by Bond mavens — Mr. Lazenby wasn't divested of the role but walked away from it.
Both candidates, a survey of voters in today's Republican primary suggested, were seen as reformers, but when they were pitted against one another, Mr. Bush was seen as the more effective one -- precisely as he had portrayed himself in a late blitz of television commercials here.
He has five tracks and a mega ramp in his backyard, and this is precisely this scenario that is portrayed in the game.
If unconventionally portrayed -- or, perhaps, precisely because so portrayed -- the world of antiquity comes remarkably alive here.
