small-bore

• “Clinton, helped by a solid economy, did enough to get re-elected, but it was a year largely characterized by small-bore initiatives like school uniforms and neighborhood curfews.”

  StarTribune.com rss feed

• “In the United States, KTM became a respected bike and team within the small-bore ranks several years ago.”

  The Huffington Post: Bayo Olukotun: Austrian Oranges Taste Like Success: Dungey Wins On a KTM

• “While the policy shift allows for a lift on travel and remittance restrictions and paves the way for greater telecommunications links with the island, some bloggers are concerned that the measure has not gone far enough (e.g.: the trade embargo still remains in place), rendering the new policy, in the words of The Cuban Triangle, “humanitarian, unsustainable, small-bore, a kind of inoculation, and a question mark.””

  Global Voices in English » Cuba, U.S.A.: Extending an Olive Branch?

• “But it means that it would be totally impossible for the leader to just come to the floor with a series of a few dozen small-bore proposals on a related topic and then let each one be voted on individuallly.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Stuffed

• “By all accounts, Ms. Palin became consumed with the complaints, no matter how small-bore — which many were — or where they came from.”

  Johnston says Palin lost his vote

• “Lowering the EB-5 threshold down to the Mexican level seems like a politically tractable, albeit small-bore, way to increase the volume of legal immigration to the United States.”

  Matthew Yglesias » EB-5 Visas

• “Obama advocates argue that he is temperamentally ill suited to such a strategy, both because he is more interested in broad change than small-bore tinkering and because it requires a level of deal-making that he has not appeared comfortable with.”

  The Washington Post: Obama may follow Clinton's model

• “And the Zazi case forcefully demonstrated that al-Qaeda was not waiting to launch “the big one,” but was in fact content to get any kind of terrorist operation going in the United States, even a relatively small-bore attack.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Longest War

• “Even Saddam Hussein had left the staunchly independent Sunni tribes of Anbar pretty much to their own devices—mostly small-bore smuggling rackets—and the tribes did not appreciate al-Qaeda muscling into their turf, nor did they subscribe to its vision of a Taliban-style utopia.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Longest War

• “And he can expect many reporters and editorial writers to chastise him for being bold rather than "pragmatic" small-bore agenda of a few tax credits and a bite-size infrastructure initiative.”

  The Huffington Post: Peter Dreier: Will Obama Cave Again To Business Pressure?

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