His tone on the issues reflects the populist resentment that currently works so well for the right wing and marries it to an often scoffing bewilderment that things are so screwy.
The issues reflected the types of concerns voiced informally by students in the first cohort and were presented in the form of questions: (Q1) meeting their future spouses/partners, (Q2) finding two jobs in the same location, (Q3) the impact on their careers of taking parental leave, and (Q4) having time to spend with children.
Intense lobbying has surrounded the issue, reflecting the importance of patents to the American economy.
Viewpoints on the issue reflect our viewpoint of the world and interests more than the deal itself.
The issue reflects the growing sensitivity of China's trade surplus in the United States and its robust economic growth, which some critics say is coming at the expense of American jobs.
The issue reflects the administration's ideological fault lines, and in recent months Mr. Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, has stepped in, as one senior aide said, "to make sure there was not a public food fight on this one".
The issue reflected the prejudices of Californians who feared that Japanese immigrants (a thousand arrivals monthly) would depress wages and gain control of most of the good farming land.
The president's decision to elevate the issue reflected more of a political strategy than a legislative one since the White House has no plan to actually push a bill this year through a Congress already consumed by other issues.
And the tentativeness among Democrats on the issue reflects a basic uncertainty about how resentment of illegal immigration could affect not only the legislative contests set for next fall, but next month's town and county elections across the state.
Who are you two to be God?' " The issue reflects Mr. Bush's penchant for holding to views whose implications some might find offensive, while doing all he can to avoid giving any offense.
