One Republican senator, speaking anonymously to Politico, summed up the week: "The Administration made it difficult for some Republicans to try to publicly support anything".
The administration was right to express concerns about the stolen parliamentary election — drawing verbal attacks on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — and to try to publicly shame the Kremlin on Syria.
Whenever the dog farts, or I burp, I try to publicly and loudly blame Eve -- Eve!
"By trying to publicly apologize now, he is just trying to save face," Mr. Martin said.
But in recent days, she seems to have tried to publicly distance herself from the M23 — although still not from Mr. Kagame.
We need to blow this charade wide open by trying to publicly show Iranians, Israelis and Palestinians that they really do have options that their leaders don't want them to see.
This seems to put Augusta in its own crosshairs, which is much different from how the issue was framed in 2003 when Burk tried to publicly pressure the club for its male-only practices.
The Department for Transport has also tried to publicly dispel some of the "myths" surrounding the project, such as the Institute of Directors' claim that once the second phase, which takes the railway in a Y-shaped route to Manchester and Leeds, is completed, the total bill could reach £80bn.
The attention the use of a body double has gotten after The Smoking Gun report made sense because the potential for a gotcha moment was high, he said: "It's a classic case of Jennifer, or any celebrity, who comes from a lower-middle class background, who tries to publicly identify with the class they come from".
It's hard to see why Blanchett should have tried to publicly humiliate a bloke who was, it seems, merely trying to do his job, but then this is not the first time the Australian actor has displayed a somewhat conflicted attitude towards the nexus between Hollywood and the fashion-celebrity industrial complex.
When I put this question to Michael Stipe in 2007, he said: "We always tried to publicly acknowledge that we were just a part of something much bigger that was happening [in the 80s], and maybe not even the best part … The fact that we've carried on doesn't make us a great band.
