Consequently, Mr. Waxman argued, Congress should be allowed to define political advertising according to current political standards, and the bill did so.
"Whenever a covert agency is allowed to define the national interest, it ends up with more power than intended".
It can no longer be the case that only white voices are allowed to define what is and isn't racist.
If that way of campaigning had been allowed to define Euroscepticism, we would have lost catastrophically – and quite rightly and deservedly.
It has always seemed to me that the intolerant blowhards, like Pat Robertson, have been allowed to define the evangelical movement, which is in fact far broader than them.
The fact that some blustery old white men like to throw the odd quote from Horace into their after-dinner speeches shouldn't be allowed to define for everyone what knowing Latin is or can be".
Under the proposal, which is described in a draft letter to state health officials, states would be allowed to define an "unborn child" as eligible for medical coverage under the federal Children's Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP.
In giving voice to reservations about releasing more images of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is quoted as saying that the abuse and sexual humiliation captured in those images "ought not to be allowed to define us -- either in the eyes of the world or our own eyes" (front page, May 12).
Such nasty outbursts could be dismissed as so much ridiculous hysteria, were it not for the fact that the anti-abortion lobby, with its scare tactics, "prayer vigils" and wild accusations, has effectively been allowed to define the situation in Ireland, shifting the entire discourse on to moral grounds.
