That has now changed, at least at the level of rhetoric.

Yes, a startling statistic, combined with some hyperbolic prose, will make us sit up and pay attention.

Bush s us and them rhetoric clearly defines an other and positions it as a cohesive enemy.

What European leaders may want most from the Fund are easy loans and strong rhetorical support.

Today, the proverbial shoe is on the other foot. Long known for its rhetorical faith in South South cooperation, India has begun putting its money where its mouth used to be.

Moreover, Bush s exaggerated rhetoric was often at odds with his practice, giving rise to charges of hypocrisy.

The Kouchner Conversion

Turkey s Transformation

Underneath this ceremonial role, he was really modest and really introverted so much so that when he delivered these sermons, he had trouble making eye contact with the very same congregation that he had been speaking to for 62 years.

Why Did Putin Turn?

A Trans Atlantic Transition

Rumors become the truth

Sadat gained a privileged place in history and achieved immortality the moment he fled from the comfortable prison of inertia, and from the pantomime solidarity and hollow rhetorical cohesion of Arab summits.

With little beyond rhetorical support from their supposed friends in the West, the people of Aleppo had pushed out the Assad dictatorship in July 2012 and pushed out Daesh (ISIS) extremists in January 2014.

Paddy Ashdown The global power shift

Tipping Points to Asia s Future

Now, attention has now turned to food.

His attention then turned to the north.

Amir converted from Islam to Christianity in 1931.

What is most frightening about all this is not the American anti missile project or Putin s rhetorical muscle flexing, but rather the increasingly dramatic European weakness that the episode has exposed.

Organizational skills the ability to attract and inspire an effective inner circle of followers can compensate for rhetorical deficiencies, just as effective public rhetoric can partly compensate for low organizational skills.

It will adapt. It will adapt to its environment it's a durable mutation.

James Surowiecki When social media became news

A Watershed Doctrine for America

How do you take what you're dreaming of and make it happen?

China is at a turning point.

The would be perpetrators also became the primary victims.

But the energy transformation must begin now.

This enthusiasm for reform marks a paradigm shift.

It merely shifted from left to right.

Controls to prevent the supply of weapons to terrorists

In fairness, no UN Secretary General has paid greater homage to the ideals of the human rights movement, or attempted, at least rhetorically, to associate the UN with those ideals, than Kofi Annan. Rhetoric is not reality, of course, and the UN s declarations have often seemed far removed from its daily practice.

The very survival of Western civilization is at stake. Is it really so surprising that certain people might mistake this rhetoric for a call to arms?

Not only was his rhetorical style effective, but after inflammatory comments by his pastor threatened to derail his campaign, he produced one of the best speeches on race in America since the days of King.

And in the end it turned into a real device.

It is now a wizened and humiliated husk of a party.

Suddenly, this didn t seem quite right.

There has also been another significant shift in Asian attitudes.

Today, however, the eurozone s attention has shifted to growth.

Somewhere along the line, Asef became a double agent.

A more democratic Iraq has become a more violent Iraq.

A world that has returned to an animalistic state.

What once felt to me like dignified theatre seems more and more like dangerous farce.

The northern section of the island has been turned into an industrial area.

It has since been transformed into the Gaudí Museum.