The perverse at heart will seek out the ambiguities, trying to create discord by pinning down meanings of their own.

Instead, they are valiantly pinning their hopes on the old decolonization nationalist strategy, nowadays even resorting to such Stalinist tools as staged show trials.

Typically, a person shows his support for ex convicts by pinning a yellow ribbon on his shirt during the annual campaign held in September.

Austin tried to capitalize on this by pinning The Rock, but Kurt Angle, a Team Alliance member, revealed his true allegiance by hitting Austin in the head with a title belt.

But Iran s rulers apparently don t want to learn from history. Instead, they are valiantly pinning their hopes on the old decolonization nationalist strategy, nowadays even resorting to such Stalinist tools as staged show trials.

The ruling elite, whose public face at present is the attractive, mild mannered, Oxford educated prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, is pinning all the troubles on one man, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, exiled abroad and a fugitive from Thai justice.

The EU is pinning its hopes on one mechanism to reduce Greek debt loans from the European Financial Stability Facility that would allow Greece to buy its own debt at a discount in the secondary market. But, while allowing the EFSF to finance buybacks is a step forward, a slew of theoretical and empirical research, generated by developing countries efforts to buy back their debt in the 1980 s and 1990 s, has shown that it is far from a cure all.