Our polarized politics and buffet-style media menu — in which anyone with a strongly held position can validate it with the touch of a remote control or mouse — guarantee persistent, even sharpening, divisions on greenhouse gases.
To reinforce this strongly held position, here is a pungent mix of Truffaut, Godard and Rohmer, with no additional seasoning required.
Republicans say that while Mr. Bush wants to reach across party lines when he can, he never intended to give up his strongly held positions.
Despite that, "The Quest" makes it clear that energy policy is not on the right course anywhere in the world and that everyone — on the left and the right, in the developed and the developing world — needs to rethink strongly held positions.
This is only exacerbated by the reinforcement of existing perceptions fostered by the echo chamber effect that directs us to validate strongly held positions on the issues of the day.
Kahan and his fellow researchers suggest that many of our most strongly held positions, while dressed in the garb of independent critical thinking, rationality and science, are actually rooted, irrationally, in the tribal-like beliefs of our fellow ideological travelers, our extended families who give form to our cultural identities.
Chase had to reduce a series of strongly held Japanese positions.
The result was a "slaughterpen", as the Second Maryland and the Third North Carolina regiments courageously charged a well-defended position strongly held by three brigades, a few reaching within twenty paces of the enemy lines.
The position was strongly held by greatly superior numbers of Germans, Austrians and Ottomans, supported by well-placed artillery, but the garrison was seen burning stores and evacuating camps.
In both fights, the North Koreans opened with a direct frontal attack to hold the US division's elements in combat, and then the bulk of the North Korean force enveloped the American left flank and established strongly held roadblocks behind the front positions and forced the Americans in them to retreat from the untenable positions.
The language is emotive and, at times, frankly manipulative, as is often the case when positions are strongly held.
