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This was a pretty ugly weekend. You've got to say that the rhetoric got turned up two or three notches with people talking about stealing an election,

What people want from Mr Blair is not more polished rhetoric about the future but practical solutions to the problems of the present.

With high costs to GM, Delphi and the UAW, a strike still looks unlikely, despite the potential for increased rhetoric over the next several weeks.

The public's frustration with the state of education is palpable. They see lots of rhetoric but little progress.

We are surprised that ? despite all of the rhetoric of good government and cleaning up politics ? the Legislature would consider removing the limits on corporate influence in local elections.

between the rhetoric here in Washington and the reality on the ground.

Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The west has been a particularly vigorous exponent of this credo; and there is no reason to believe that China, for example, will be any different. But behind the moral rhetoric invariably lies interest and ideology.

Did you want IBM to lower their rhetoric on Java?

Corporate customers want and are demanding that their vendors abandon divisive rhetoric and useless posturing and get on with the business of working together constructively,

Euro-zone data flow this morning will encourage further hawkish rhetoric from the ECB.

During the run up over the past few years, the tendency has been to look at these companies as a synchronized sector, but that's all changing now. In the next 18 months, underneath all the rhetoric that good markets will offset deteriorating ones, nearly everyone expects there's going to be casualties among home builders of various sizes. The every-man-for-himself era among big residential construction companies has arrived.

ISPs' rhetoric is increasingly strident about content from outside providers raising the costs of their networks. But I haven't seen hard data that suggests the volume of legitimate video is coming close to swamping ISP networks yet.

I've been to enough meetings and heard enough rhetoric that I believe they are not going to stop here.

The rhetoric will be stepped up on trade.

The rhetoric was not there in the way it has been in the past, but we're still looking at a hike in March.

The rhetoric over the fiscal stimulus package heated up this weekend, reducing the likelihood of passage, ... In what may become a famous remark, President Bush said that Congress would 'raise taxes over my dead body.'

The rhetoric over China is intensifying for a number of reasons.

The rhetoric is much different this time - this time they're really out to get each other.

The rhetoric has to really describe reality, or the public will recognize there is a discrepancy between the two.

The rhetoric from the meeting will be the most important catalyst,

The scripture that comes to my mind is 'Jesus wept,' ... Jesus weeps today for the loss of life in New Orleans and he weeps that his gospel is being hijacked by the rabid rhetoric of the religious right -- that is in its own way as destructive to our national fabric as Hurricane Katrina has been.

I want Cindy to have an understanding that we still have troops over there with boots on the ground, and all this negative rhetoric hurts them.

So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.

Our curriculum has become much more cafeteria-like. In classical times, education was regarded as generally rhetorical. Rhetoric is the unifying force. This is a return to that synthesis of rhetoric and discipline knowledge.

On this Veterans Day, the president had the opportunity to honor our troops, both those who have served and those who are currently serving, by laying out a clear strategy for success in the war in Iraq. Instead, the president resorted to his old playbook of discredited rhetoric about the War on Terror and political attacks as his own political fortunes and credibility diminish,

Officials could see how the tough rhetoric resonated in society during the gas war with Ukraine last week.

The names reflect the Australian character. We're fairly relaxed and down to earth. We have the ability not to take ourselves to seriously as an advantage. We're competitive in business and sporting arenas, but we also like to enjoy life and not get bogged down in the rhetoric of wine snobbery.

The more hawkish rhetoric we've had from the ECB and talk of the next move in interest rates being up is protecting the euro a little. The problem the market has is that it's tougher talk, but action is still some way away.

Dear Senate of the United States of America, I'm putting you on notice that ... if we cannot change you with our rhetoric and we cannot move you with our rhetoric, ... we will remove you out from office with our vote.

Competition and competitive rhetoric can be healthy. It's what drove the United States to pursue the Soviet Union into space, creating countless innovations along the way.

Companies understand that if their employees are sick, it's really expensive. So despite the rhetoric I hear, thank God employers are still in the health-care system.

Anti-gay rhetoric and campaign tactics are never acceptable. This amendment to the Code of Fair Campaign Practices simply seeks to establish a level playing field that all candidates would be able to follow. Candidates should focus on issues, not attacks on any group of people.

The Bush rhetoric about democracy has little to do with Washington's actual policy goals in the Middle East.

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

The modified measures should deflate Microsoft's overblown rhetoric and apocalyptic predictions about the proposed remedies,

You see in this poll that when people are given the opportunity to think about and discuss the issues, they move forward. The real backlash has been against those who spew hatred, who are seeing their support for hatred erode and erode fast as their rhetoric becomes more inflammatory.

This is an exciting time in our growing civil rights movement for marriage equality. The Marriage Equality Matters campaign demonstrates the power of engaging the public and showing them the reality of marriage equality, rather than right-wing rhetoric and scare tactics. When it comes to opening hearts and minds to fairness and reaching the diverse communities who make up our American landscape seeing is, in fact, believing.

This is precisely the kind of insensitive, hurtful and ignorant rhetoric that Americans have grown tired of.

They were less forceful in their rhetoric and that shows a little light at the end of the tunnel, ... Clearly they're at a point where what they say is more important than what they do and that's playing itself out in the equity markets.

A lot of people would expect the rhetoric to heat up after Labor Day and in the final stretch. But my goodness, the first week of February? This year may be tougher than ever.

A lot of rhetoric without any action. That's what we have again here." ()

There was clearly a disappointment in the rhetoric from the Fed. It's just a buyers strike.

This is unfortunate rhetoric from politicians. We're a cyclical industry, earning a fair rate of return for everything we have to do to meet our energy needs, all the money we have to invest, all risk we have to take.

There's a serious disconnect between the rhetoric of the committee and the actions that have taken place today.

There seems to be a disconnect between the rhetoric in Washington about what this is all about and what we hear here.

It's just not that big a chunk of the budget. You've got to go where the money is. There's a lot of rhetoric about spending restraint, but there's been no serious effort to actually address the deficit. Part of the problem is there's no consensus on how to do it.

It's a war only because we've got the rhetoric of wartime.

It remains impossible to reconcile Sinn Fein's rhetoric for peace with the IRA's preparations for murder,

It is true that programs are going to be hunting for dollars. And it is true there are more programs than dollars. But the civilian leaders are doing nothing to bring the budget in line. Even though we are hearing a lot of rhetoric from the office of the Defense secretary, we see they are going along with what the services want. It shows who is running the Pentagon.

For far too long, they have shortchanged our kids. Empty legal rhetoric can't cover up the facts.

It's hard to reconcile the scientific principles of freedom of exploration, testing hypotheses and evaluating evidence with the tyrannical rhetoric coming from some scientific elites who want to squelch the teaching of intelligent design alongside evolutionary theory.

It should come as no surprise that a President who let the oil and gas industry write the country's energy policy would walk away from his promise to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. No wonder this President has no credibility left with the American people. Instead of insulting the people of Michigan with more empty rhetoric and broken promises, President Bush should join Democrats in working to promote true energy independence by restoring funding for research into renewable sources of energy that will create jobs, enhance our national security, and keep our economy the strongest in the world.

It's hard to find the right rhetoric because he's carrying the baggage of governance and his accountability for the lack of preparedness. It's not that empathy doesn't have some traction. It's just that when you're watching television and his empathy is pitted against anger, the anger wins.

It's unfortunate but not surprising that the government has filed a document filled with rhetoric in its attempt to defend a very extreme remedy proposal. Beyond the rhetoric, we do not believe there is any basis for these kinds of excessive actions which would significantly harm consumers, the high-tech industry, and the economy.

That fits the overall strategy in a speech like this. You don't wander into an area where you're going to have a hard time explaining the situation. You use rhetoric and topics that can portray you in a positive light.

Tax-and-spend rhetoric aside, California needs budget reform, because it's not a revenue problem, but a spending problem.

It must be unequivocally clear that such a heinous act is not desirable nor designed nor planned. We must use power to reduce tensions, reduce the rhetoric of our threats.

It seems as if the rhetoric is getting worse and worse. A lot of that has to do with the fact that there was no caps on spending.

I've grown tired of hearing rhetoric in Washington from the Bush administration, ... I'm going to see firsthand what's happening on the frontlines to combat terror.

I've heard this rhetoric for a long time. In my district, I don't believe a Democratic opponent can win.

It will be interesting to see how she reconciles her rhetoric of 2004, when she said that the election (for governor) was all about experience, when in this race, she's at a decided experience disadvantage.

They want the rhetoric to end and they want to concentrate on what they do best.

They've really ratcheted up the rhetoric in the last few weeks with Snow and Greenspan weighing in.

This is less about Americans' addiction to oil than to Republican politicians' addiction to polls. The rhetoric is bracing but the proposals are mercifully trivial.

Not unexpectedly, pre-trial rhetoric has amounted to bullying and posturing in the media's eye, ... prominent reputation includes no apparent lack of shyness as far as communicating with the media and outside observers is concerned.

That's all good theory and rhetoric but this real-life circumstance here, it's green, it's thick and good to have and I'm not shifting.

Their rhetoric is that perhaps God's blessing has been removed and we can't expect to be protected.

Their rhetoric does not match the reality of what they have done.

The federal government has not matched their rhetoric with money.

The campaign is trying to erase the president's history and to show us a new president, when it comes to his look, his rhetoric and the team working with him.

I'm thinking the Fed will leave the rates unchanged, ... We've ramped up pretty higher into this meeting and my concern is the psychological letdown if the rhetoric remains strong.

inflamed rhetoric in the United States Senate is just not going to play well now.

If you peel back the layers of anti-reform rhetoric coming from some in the education establishment, it is clear that Americans continue to support the key principles of NCLB, and rightly so,

In the face of rising interest rates and all the rhetoric about slowing housing, the fact that Home Depot's results are accelerating is quite impressive.

Interesting rhetoric ... but the really big (weapons) modernization were left untouched.

Instead of providing new ideas or honest answers to the economic downturn we are facing, Bush and Cheney offered empty rhetoric and blamed others for the recession.

Instead of a State of the Union address, the president kicked off his re-election campaign. His speech was long on rhetoric and short on resources.

I hope so, ... It isn't as if we're looking for things to have extended debate on. We need to work together and I think this week has established that. But how can we work together when information is not supplied? So, I hope that we'll all slow down the rhetoric during the break.

Intimidation by extreme rhetoric and the threat of physical violence threatens judges as well as the Constitution itself,

If you want action on climate change and not spin and rhetoric only the Greens can deliver.

I suggest it may be very helpful to U.S. efforts to secure Venezuela's cooperation in our joint attack on drug interdiction if the rhetoric would be reduced,

I think national champions are absolute nonsense. This rhetoric is extremely dangerous.

Beijing has been accusing the U.S. of hegemony over the past few days. But that rhetoric is targeted at a domestic audience, not the Americans,

I don't know how much effect it has after things get started. Normally, and I use a little Bill Belichick philosophy here, after the game starts, all the hype and the rah-rah and the rhetoric goes out the window and now you play the game.

Cheney has a real history of questionable hunting behavior. He is apparently obsessed with hunting and is a regular patron of canned hunts. We don't like to see the Vice President of the U.S. providing pretty explicit endorsement of this practice, because canned hunting violates all the rhetoric that hunters use to justify themselves. Hunting is supposed to involve a fair chase with the animal having an opportunity to evade the hunter. But this eliminates the possibility of failure.

It's very short-sighted and even dangerous to be engaging in the kind of demagogic rhetoric that Donald has about Muslims.

I find it deeply disturbing that someone wanting to be president of the United States would talk the way Donald Trump talks, use the rhetoric, the demagoguery, the bigotry and the bluster and the bullying that he has demonstrated.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

We had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric.

Vision is not political rhetoric.

I am not a supporter of the rhetoric of, 'Dear, dear, the toys have got lead paint.' If I had a manufacturer in China that allowed that to happen, I'd fire them instantly.

I call on all parties to accept the verdict of the ballot box and to refrain from rhetoric which may fuel division in Ukraine.

I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.

I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.

We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Their biggest problem is developing some bipartisan way to deal with Iraq. They're still alternating between bipartisan rhetoric and impugning the patriotism of those who disagree with Bush. The daily bad news from Iraq doesn't help.

These frustrations have only gotten worse even as the rhetoric that 'democracy is coming' has increased.