But at Mr McConnell's own victory party, his Kentuckian colleague in the Senate, Rand Paul, offered a different vision, vowing: "We will send the president bill after bill until he wearies of it," including moves to repeal every "vestige" of Obamacare, the president's flagship health law.Americans have sent Mr Obama a loud warning and given Republicans a governing majority in Congress.
The oil boss still bears a vestige of the agitator of 15 years ago.
Though Keynes saw quite clearly that the English aristocratic class seldom made the best use of its leisure, it's hard not to see his bias against commerce and consumption as a vestige of aristocratic ideology about the inherent degradation of market activity.
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FOR two decades, since a short war with Moldova ended in 1992, the self-declared republic of Transdniestria has been an unreconstructed vestige of the Soviet Union, a narrow slash of land stuck in a time warp.
And the "paramilitary" incident is the perfect excuse for a crackdown".This is a country in which the last vestige of the rule of law has vanished," said Rafael Marín, an opposition legislator, after an attempted raid this week on his house, ordered by a military judge.
He is scrapping the Planning Commission, a vestige of centralised economic thinking.
The grotesque reluctance of the ruling junta to allow foreigners to help the desperate Burmese has shredded whatever vestige of respect it enjoyed internationally.
Any vestige of the previous government's anti-corruption drive, for example, has been abandoned.
The vestige of a legal basis for such a process is in the ICC's statute.
Despite the many stains on his reputation locking up opponents, rampant cronyism, not to mention his occasional, infelicitous use of prison slang Viktor Yanukovych retained, until recently, the vestige of respectability that the presidency of a nation of 46m confers.
