As he waited for a press conference to conclude inside, Rasiej demonstrated an appealing mixture of bravado (Gotbaum "won't appear with me in public — the contrast is too great") and defeatism ("She's got the Times endorsement locked up").
But as party chiefs survey the headlines around the globe they would be hard pressed not to conclude that banning India's Daughter has been far more damaging to India's reputation abroad than an open discussion of the issues raised by the film would ever have been.
Then the press stepped in to conclude the "build 'em up, knock 'em down" cycle.
Referring to the cliffhanger nature of the rule, Dan W. Reicher, the departing assistant secretary of energy for efficiency and renewable energy, said, "We pressed very hard to conclude this standard at the end of the administration, because of the enormous energy savings it promises, and because of the risk that it might linger in the next administration".
51 52 Given our findings that the popular press has been consistently endorsing supplementation, it seems reasonable to conclude the popular press is, at least in part, helping to fuel the demand for vitamin D supplements and to the confusion about its value.
None of this however is to conclude that press freedom in Britain, hard won over 300 years ago, should be jeopardised.
Mr. Vail: I'm sorry that's going to have to conclude our press conference today, thank you very much.
The fact that, despite this, there was no actual increase in the number of cases led one of its staff to conclude: 'The extra press attention causes anxiety.
When Lloyd Blankfein, the investment bank's chief executive, said he was "doing God's work", it was said tongue-in-cheek, not, as it would have been easy to conclude from the press reports, as a serious theological observation.
It's the kind of substanceless fawning that leads some to conclude that the press is soft on Obama.
