That's not a fair presentation of the policy here, but it is how the political rhetoric shapes up.
Has the government and media's ramping up of the rhetoric shaped your perception of the scale of the crisis?
It was a rhetoric shaped by the liberation movements of the 70s, with a characteristic emphasis on freedom, choice and the illegitimacy of social restrictions on nature.
YouTube-style montages and mash-ups have been an excellent tool for seeing and showing how rhetoric takes shape.
The anti-immigrant rhetoric that shaped Trump's campaign now shapes his political priorities from a discriminatory Muslim ban to increased criminalization, detention, and deportation of vulnerable immigrants.
The others — Cantor, Ryan, and McCarthy — are all pretty much what you'd consider movement conservatives, who didn't have to re-invent themselves for the Tea Party… but they certainly accommodated themselves to the Tea Party moment, in terms of rhetoric, and shaping the GOP message.
Using our voices and votes, we also have to push back against the misogyny, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and anti-immigrant rhetoric that shaped the 2016 election.
Acknowledging its debt to Stephen O Murray and Will Roscoe's sociology book Boy-Wives and Female Husbands, the play considers how rhetoric and language shape thinking around homosexuality. "Somebody says," is a constant refrain.
But the serious meaning of rhetoric is language shaped to persuade, and the quoted passage with short declarative sentences certainly means to persuade.
