They pledged to make a new call to public service a hallmark of the next presidency.
Bo Xilai, who governed the region's 30m people, 5m of them in Chongqing city, made big spending on public works his hallmark.
But they cannot be expected to lead on solving a problem created by politicians who are happy to impose cuts without thinking seriously about the necessary breadth and depth of public services – the hallmark of a fair and decent society – and what it takes to fund them.
In virtually every case, reformers emerged following weak leaders -- like Fiorello La Guardia, who took control after corruption raked the city; Mr. Koch, who helped lead the city out of the 1970's fiscal crisis; and Rudolph W. Giuliani, who made public safety the hallmark of his tenure following years of out-of-control crime.
"This will go down in history as one of those hallmark public health efforts," says Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy in Twin Cities, Minnesota, who wasn't involved in the study.
Islamic State has made public killings a hallmark of its rule in much of the territory it controls across Iraq and Syria.
Patriarchal Western societies tend to disdain crying, particularly in public, as a hallmark of femininity and therefore an indication of weakness.
The irony here that, in an alleged democracy, the private sphere is expected to be subsumed beneath the public – the very hallmark of fascism – should not be lost on us.
We base our definition on the notion of collective responsibility for health, the hallmark of public health action: public health is the "collaborative actions to improve population-wide health and reduce health inequalities".
How would the Mexican public feel if its hallmark company was acquired by Americans?
