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The clue to what is politically effective is to be found not so much in verifiable good or bad effects flowing from political acts as in whether the incumbent can continue indefinitely to convey the impression of knowing what is to be done (Edelman 1964, 76-77, emph. added).
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Swarthmore College Bulletin, Jan 2009. [emph. added]
January 27th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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In her first paragraph, the CDC released data about HIV infection rates among "sexually active gay and bisexual men in America" (emph. mine).
Alex Blaze: Media Outlets Fumble With CDC Data on MSM HIV Rates Alex Blaze 2010
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For Converse ([1964] 2006, 7, emph. original), “what is important is that the elites familiar with the total shapes of these belief systems have experienced them as logically constrained clusters of ideas.”
Notes on Critical Review's Converse issue, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In her first paragraph, the CDC released data about HIV infection rates among "sexually active gay and bisexual men in America" (emph. mine).
Alex Blaze: Media Outlets Fumble With CDC Data on MSM HIV Rates Alex Blaze 2010
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Not complex, but failure to comply is capable of jeopardizing the marital status. my emph
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Leaving out the ample historic references the gist is this emph. added:
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If these thugs were finally brought to justice, Afghan women and men would prove quite capable of helping ourselves. (emph. added)
Rethink Afghanistan: Debunking the Myths About Women's Rights in Afghanistan 2009
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Andrew McCarthy howled that it was "an obstructive tactic that unabashedly nullifies majority rule" and spluttered (emph. in orig.) the filibuster was not used at all throughout much of the Senate's history.
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The below exchange (via Media Matters) is from her October 8 appearance on CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch (emph, mine):
Larisa Alexandrovna: Ann Coulter Thinks That Jews Need to be Perfected by Becoming Christians 2008
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