In the past, Koch has complained of what he has characterized as her negative attitude.
Lieber, who had consistently decried the "namby-pamby" views of warfare he ascribed to many Enlightenment jurists, embraced (as did Lincoln) what John Witt has characterized as "tough humanitarianism".
Since Monday, Mr. Bradley's estranged wife, Fumiko Bradley, has been on the witness stand, describing what she has characterized as months of abuse.
The Obama administration has tried to distinguish its efforts in Afghanistan from what it has characterized as the Bush administration's overly ambitious goals to build a democratic government in Iraq.
Even as he defends his Police Department daily from what he has characterized as bashing, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani is facing increasingly vocal criticism of his style and tactics on law enforcement matters from an unlikely quarter: police officers.
In the past year she has become more prominent as the founder of a new nonprofit activist group, Liberty Central, which is dedicated to opposing what she has characterized as the leftist "tyranny" of the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats.
The Obama campaign has, for several weeks now, tried to connect Mr. Romney and what it has characterized as a trigger-happy willingness to go to war, a critique that could be damaging if it manages to stick, since Americans have grown war-weary after a decade of combat.
He contrasted Mr. Biden's courteous attitude with what he has characterized as the bad manners of some members of Congress who have threatened to end trade benefits for Ecuador's exports to the United States if the country decides to give refuge to Mr. Snowden.
While this is understood by top executives like Mr. Seidenberg and others, there is a clear need for leaders from outside the Fortune 500 to similarly ratchet up their efforts to have their voice heard and address what Mr. Seidenberg has characterized as "a growing disconnect between Washington and the business community".
Frustrated by what he has characterized as continued obstructionism by the Bloomberg administration, a federal judge on Wednesday appointed Robert M. Morgenthau as a special master to oversee the city's adoption of practices aimed at increasing the number of black and Hispanic firefighters.
