He even seemed to indicate in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News last week that he might support a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants.
Then, color-code a map of the United States to indicate in which states a juvenile offender is eligible for the death penalty.
This article was amended on 17 July 2014 to indicate in the third paragraph that the author spoke to Ahsan's brother.
He pointed out that the Irish had "pressed us to indicate in the communique that we would be making changes concerning the Ulster Defence Regiment".
But Mr Hussein seemed to indicate in an interview with CBS News this week that he might refuse.
Smith famously gave herself a cameo as a "feckless" visiting novelist, as though she wanted to indicate, in a generous spirit, that she was also poking fun at herself.
The matters he had written about continued to concern him but now became challenges for the novel he was working on: how to indicate in a story the viewpoint of Kierkegaard.
Such a moment, complete with a photo op, could help prevent such nasty partisan attacks and allow both candidates to indicate, in Mr. Cohen's words, that they "would come to Islam without prejudice".
But the World Anti-Doping Code, to which track and field adheres, also appears to indicate in its bylaws that the use of some stimulants can bring a two-year suspension.
She balances upside-down on a bucket, while jamming a foot in as well, to indicate, in physical terms, how women can be viewed as half a person.
