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It was neither a tactful nor an elegant phrase, and she later apologized for her remark.
The problem is that many of these deplorable voters are also relatively uneducated, which makes Clinton’s remark look snobbish.
When Prime Minister Tony Blair described the next election as a fistfight in which the “flyweight” Cameron would be carried out and the “heavyweight” Brown victorious after a short bout, he got much applause from his supporters in the House of Commons, but the remark went down badly with voters.
Orwell’s Big Brother would not have been amused by this remark.
Policymakers in France loved to quote a remark by the French poet Paul Valéry, who in the middle of the chaos of the Great Depression had written that “Europe visibly aspires to be governed by an American committee.”
Especially in the US, a man can lose his job for making an “inappropriate” sexual remark, marriages collapse because of a one-night stand, and any form of sex with children is an absolute taboo.
It seemed like every remark of mine was taken out of context in the press and blown up into a political controversy.
But the response to Rosen’s remark underscored the relative absence of the usual heightened scrutiny of the political wife’s hair and clothes, profession and cookie recipe.
Khamenei recently stated that “we should threaten [the West and Israel] in response to their threats,” which prompted Armed Forces Deputy Chief of Staff Brigadier General Mohammad Baqeri to conclude that Khamenei’s remark meant “revising [Iran’s] defense strategy.”
Hasnain made his remark to the New Scientist in 1999, only five years after the retreat had reached its peak and only two to three years after the slowdown began – far too soon to say that the trend had changed.
The IPCC’s use of his remark may have been rash, but was not misleading because in 2003-2004, the year before it finalized its fourth report, the changed trend would have been barely perceptibleWhat the 2009 report for the Indian Ministry of Forests and Environment actually says is that the average retreat of glaciers, approximately five meters per year since the 1840’s, when records began to be kept, accelerated sharply between the 1950’s and 1990’s.
The irony of this remark is that in the Philippines, a country of more than 100 million people, of whom four out of five are Roman Catholic, it is precisely the Church that has been the ideological colonizer.
Meldrum’s remark reflects a widespread view of those who are overweight.
An off-the-cuff remark, perhaps, but it shows how foreign trade and investment are seen as the yardsticks for evaluating developing countries.
“Crippling sanctions,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton once said, though she quickly retracted that impromptu remark.
Recall former UK justice minister Michael Gove’s remark in the midst of the Brexit debate: “people in this country have had enough of experts.”
The third remark that I shall make is certainly not new: it is necessary to "debureaucratize" and "deformalize" all of the UN bodies, institutions and procedures and achieve, thusly, substantial cuts in the organization's budget.
But the remark had a more serious purpose and was evidently intended to expose a fundamental flaw in my argument.
Einstein’s remark about having “blundered” is as misleading as the idea that he is “right after all.”
Though Putin barely implied that the dog’s superiority indicates Russia’s domination over the US, his remark appears to be in line with his general message: don’t you ever dare to doubt our high status.
Greta Thunberg, Donald Trump, and the Future of CapitalismATHENS – Steven Mnuchin, US President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary, outraged liberal commentators at this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos with a snide remark directed at teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg.
I, too, could not contain myself after Mnuchin’s Davos remark.
British Prime Minister Theresa May duly issued a statement rebuking Tusk for his remark.
Dudley’s most provocative remark was that “there’s even an argument that the election itself falls within the Fed’s purview.”
Trump’s Mercantilist MessCAMBRIDGE – When US President Donald Trump quipped in March 2018 that “trade wars are good, and easy to win,” many dismissed his remark as a mostly harmless rhetorical flourish.
Every remark, even the most trivial, which showed that those who judged it saw even but a small part of what he himself saw in it, moved him deeply.
Little as he valued Golenishchev's capacity to understand art, unimportant as was his remark about the truth of Pilate's official expression while what was important remained unmentioned, and offensive as this trivial (it might have seemed to him) remark before anything had been said about what was most important Mikhaylov was delighted with it.
The fact that this opinion was but one of a million of other opinions which – as Mikhaylov well knew – would all have been just did not for him detract from the importance of Golenishchev's remark.
He took a liking for Golenishchev because of that remark, and his depression changed suddenly into delight.
Vronsky and Anna were talking in the hushed voice in which – partly not to offend the artist, and partly not to utter aloud a stupid remark such as is so easily made when speaking about art – people generally talk at picture exhibitions.
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