Word: bonae
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...punches are pulled: the attacks go beyond dismantling an opponent's record and take on a nasty tone of derision. Right now, these rhetorical bunker-busters are mainly directed across the aisle - at front-runners in the other party in order to bolster one's own partisan bona fides. At the last Democratic debate, Joe Biden said that Rudy Giuliani was "the most uninformed person on American foreign policy now running for President." And in a blisteringly partisan speech to the Young Republican National Convention in July, Mitt Romney first compared Hillary Clinton to Karl Marx, and then claimed that...
...assistant to Tom Ford, the Gucci Group's design czar. In 2004, when Ford departed, Pilati took over at the house of Saint Laurent. Early on, fashion editors left his runway shows disappointed, but more recently they have warmed to his designs and declared him a bona fide talent...
...constant calls for political candidates to prove their bona fides by condemning or denouncing something somebody else said or to renounce a person's support or to return her tainted money are a tiresome new tic in American politics. They're turning politics into a game of "Mother, May I?" Did you say "Here is my plan for health-care reform"? Uh-oh, you were supposed to say "I condemn MoveOn.org's comments on General Petraeus, and here is my plan for health-care reform...
...Tuesday's hearings also gave five presidential candidates (Biden, Clinton, Dodd, McCain and Obama) a chance to flex their commander-in-chief bona fides, not to mention a couple of also-rans (Kerry and Lieberman). "I think that the reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief," Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., told the witnesses. "Any of the metrics that have been referenced in your many hours of testimony, any fair reading of the advantages and disadvantages accruing post-surge, in my view, end up on the down side." But Senator John McCain, Republican...
...most logical step for Chu would have been to sign up as a coach for Harvard. The departures of assistants Claudia Asano, who was hired as the head coach at Union, and Michelle McAteer left plenty of room on the Crimson staff, and with Chu's credentials as a bona fide leader and one of the best players in school history, Stone was more than ready to welcome the two-time Olympian and former co-captain aboard...