In remarks after winning the primary, Mr. Coats made clear that he intended to strike very conservative themes on spending, the scope of government and national security while trying to tie Mr. Ellsworth to President Obama and the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi.
Conservatives have coalesced behind tea party themes of reducing spending and cutting the federal deficit, creating a political powerhouse that has championed those causes on Capitol Hill.
The film's themes of regret, spent passion and misdirected desire show the influence of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey's ambassador to the international festival circuit, but its creative energy resides in the way it captures nature.
Hundreds of "theme camps" spend months organizing and tens of thousands of dollars to create elaborate structures, bedecked vehicles and multimedia performances.
The theme of knowing teachers have spent time looking at work is something all the students I spoke to appreciated.
They were also introduced to the theme of climate change and spent an afternoon discussing its effects on their own lives.
Spend, spend, spend - or perhaps more accurately cut, cut, spend - has been the theme of the political week with Chancellor George Osborne setting out his spending plans for the financial year which starts six weeks before the next election (ie in 91 weeks).
The virtually lily-white audience cheered as Romney and Ryan punched the same familiar coded themes: out-of-control spending and bloated government.
Obama's State of the Union speech, his aides said, "was an opportune moment to pivot to themes of restraining government spending".
After a period out of office, Nikephoros was then appointed strategos either of Charsianon or of the Thracesian Theme, spending his remaining years, until his death around 900, fighting against the Arabs.
