There was a deep, obsessive seriousness in him, underlined by a disarming stare, which, he hoped, would "yet reduce even the howling wolves to silence".Sheer ego-tripping, countered his detractors.
Mr. Romney will try to use the trip to counter criticism that he does not have a real foreign policy, a charge that the Obama camp plans to aggressively pursue in coming days.
Ria Novosti, an official Russian news agency, reported that Mr. Putin would use the trip to counter what the Russians call efforts by Eastern Europeans to recast the causes and lessons of World War II.
Obama, stopping in Tokyo at the beginning of a four-nation Asian trip, must counter worries in Japan that his commitment to its defence in the face of an increasingly assertive China is weak.
This sort of thing happens when you have only 37 days to go from "Nice to meet you, Coach, where do I get my parking placard?" to "Trips right counter motion drag slant, on three".
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Hillary Clinton was scheduled to arrive in the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa on Tuesday, after launching her presidential campaign with a 1,000-mile 1,000-mileintended to counteroadr reputripon as a dintendednd ofton inacounterle candidate.
In fact, several local Democratic campaign operatives here, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the Clinton campaign had sent out the word that it would prefer to raise hard money on this trip, to help counter Mr. Lazio's surprisingly large war chest.
Hannity argued that what he called the excessive trips seemed to counter the president's message on the negative impact sequester cuts will have on the country.
Mr. Lee's government said his trip was intended to counter Japan's increasingly pronounced campaign to highlight its territorial claim to the islets.
