Like all bills of rights, it was deliberately crafted as a "higher law", to which all other law and policy must conform "where possible".
Speaking in Washington on Wednesday, Gary Samore, Mr. Obama's top adviser on unconventional weapons, said the wording of the nuclear review was "deliberately crafted" to exclude Iran and North Korea from the security guarantee, creating an incentive for both countries to come into compliance with the treaty.
For three years, the Justice Department and civil rights groups were united against Texas' 2011 voter ID law, arguing that the law — thought to be the strictest in the nation — not only kept black and Latino people from voting, but was deliberately crafted by state lawmakers to do so.
Speaking about the law and the possibility that it runs afoul of the First Amendment, he said: "This doesn't do that, and it's deliberately crafted not to do that.
While some are deliberately crafted pieces of prose (the transcripts of formal speeches, or the carefully turned words of great writers), many more are artless (the letters, recollections, or diaries of ordinary people), and no less potent or evocative for that.
David Sherborne, speaking on behalf of the claimants, also said MGN's comments were "deliberately crafted".
In fact, it's made in what critics derisively refer to as the International Style that is, wines that are deliberately crafted to appeal to the international wine market, paying scant attention to the traditions of the regions in which they are made.
Though mainstream cultural narratives often fail those relegated to the fringes of our societies, artists like Leslie Foster are deliberately crafting content that, as Foster and the artists with whom he's collaborated call it, "isn't for you".
The end goal for most New Year's resolutions is living a better life, and I'd like to suggest the key to a better life is not cutting out something you love doing; rather, it's deliberately crafting a balanced life you enjoy.
That's a GOP Congress that's been carefully and deliberately crafted as a firewall against a Democratic president.
This is a deliberately crafted environment that serves special interests powerfully, ultimately preserving their hegemony over government and control of the public's agenda.
