The party rhetoric holds that freedom to discuss Greek identity dates from Papandreou's election.
Since then, a novel political situation has seen voters go feral – abandoning party rhetoric, holding meetings, researching, expecting a democratic vote to effect genuine change.
Ratchet down the rhetoric, hold off on a vote and buy the new president some time to build the understanding and the consensus they will need to prevent Detroit from becoming No-Mo-town.
Over the last twenty years, with "small government" rhetoric holding sway in Washington, few new federal housing units have been built and waiting lists have grown.
Rhetoric like, "there are no homosexual members of the church," is the type of rhetoric I held onto fiercely for years as I tried to rid myself of attraction to men, to the detriment of my mental health.
Political rhetoric was held to a minimum, but the words we did hear sounded true.
First, political parties and the presidential candidates, who bear the primary responsibility for preventing violence, need to tone down their rhetoric and hold their supporters accountable.
By loudly espousing extreme rhetoric, yet holding untenable beliefs, they have run virtually unchallenged by the Republican leadership, aided by irresponsible radio talk-show hosts and right-wing pundits.
Morozov identifies in Johnson's book a strain of popular rhetoric which holds that the Internet is a model of decentralization, horizontalism, and leaderlessness, and that the world would be improved by applying these features to other domains.
Those applications signal a sharp difference between the president's political rhetoric — which holds that low-skilled foreign workers drive down wages for native-born Americans — and the actions of Trump's own businesses.
