Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Corker wrote in an e-mailed statement. “I interpreted this as meaning that the Queen’s Head was able to attract a diverse cross-section of students.” Pub Manager Scott C. Smider ’01 said many attendees echoed this sentiment throughout the night. “It was pretty sweet to hear and I have to agree with it. The mood overall was just awesome,” Smider said. “This is something my classmates were saying we needed years ago and we wished it could?...
...Party member Sanchez agrees that Bayrou centrists can be drafted to push Royal past Sarkozy into the Elysee. But even if that fails, Sanchez echoes a sentiment heard all down the Rue Solferino Sunday night. "At least this time, voters have a clear choice between two contrasting programs," Sanchez notes. "The next president won't win on default...
...Over the past year Japan's neighborhood has become more dangerous. North Korea conducted missile and nuclear tests; China's defense spending increased nearly 18% to $45 billion. Yet there has been no obvious shift in public sentiment favoring the unshackling of the military. A poll by the Yomiuri Shimbun last month found that 46% of Japanese supported constitutional change. That's slightly higher than the 39% who said they were opposed to change, but it was nine points down from 2006, making this the third consecutive year of declining support...
...stump, Rudd's key words are fairness, flexibility and prosperity. Like former Labor leader Mark Latham, he embodies the point where Labor's social project meets its "economic escalator." Go back to Rudd's maiden speech. It's the education revolution, comrade. The other great wave of sentiment that Labor is riding is shaped more by fear than hope. For Ruddites, it's climate change time. Rudd's approach on global warming is to flay Howard for being a skeptic; any government action taken, Labor claims, is insincere, inadequate or too late. Rudd is on a climate-change crusade...
...worse, in a Shi'ite-dominated Iraq, many Sunnis are willing to tacitly or actively support violence by Sunni militants and terrorists. So, the militants have the popular support that is the lifeblood of any insurgency because it allows fighters to camouflage themselves in the civilian population. Political sentiment in the Sunni communities leaves the U.S. military and the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi government forces largely unable to procure the intelligence required to isolate and destroy their hidden tormentors in Baghdad...