Word: portrayal
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While the two candidates agree on a number of issues, generally favoring a liberal social agenda, each has tried to portray himself as significantly different from the other...
...Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) to Peninsula to the executive board of the Harvard Republican Club, have launched a vocal campaign against what they describe as a single, univocal campus left. Concentrating their attacks on gay rights and women's rights, these groups have sought to portray themselves as embattled crusaders for morality in a spiritual wasteland...
...risking heresy, there will be nothing scary. An orodromeus scratches its jaw with a hind leg, and a maiasaur sits like a huge, impassive camel. In a corner a pterosaur stands on the ground, looking like an Audubon heron in a fun-house mirror. "I wanted the exhibits to portray animals," says Horner, "not just single events of aggression...
...week long, however, China and the Soviet Union, either of which could have vetoed the measure, resisted a precipitate decision. Beijing considered abstaining, because it likes to portray itself as a champion of the Third World against the superpowers and of the Arabs against Israel. Yet China wanted to support the West in order to help repair its image, shattered by last year's anti-democracy massacre in Beijing. In the end, China voted with the majority...
...portray the accuracy of the fact that I have been advancing David Souter's interests, on my own, without his consent, for 20 years. I wanted my colleagues to know very accurately that he was very close to me, because I would hope to have some credibility with my colleagues...