Word: pulling
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...only beat BU by a little in dual racing so I think we knew they would be the crew to beat,” coxswain Kelly Evans said. “We were one seat down at the start, were even at the 1000, and started to pull ahead and were bow to stern at 500 to go, though I think they came back...
...Labour has had a failure since 1997, it's that we've let that trust and openness with the public go." Brown himself suggests an end to the culture of endless policy announcements and targets that defined and eventually undermined confidence in Blair's government. "You cannot just pull levers and expect things to happen," he says. "You've got to win public support." Indeed, Blair's failure to win public support for the war in Iraq proved a disastrous self-inflicted wound. As debate raged in 2003, Westminster watchers detected in Brown's unusually low profile a subtle criticism...
Whenever the subject of Romney's "Mormon problem" arises, a whole host of commentators offer the same solution: all Romney has to do is "pull a J.F.K.," they say, meaning he needs to make a game-changing speech of the kind Kennedy delivered in September 1960 to the growling Protestant ministers of greater Houston. Kennedy declared that he viewed the separation of church and state as sacred; his religious beliefs, he said, were his private affair. "But if the time should ever come," he vowed, "... when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national...
...Gordon Brown: That's not my aim, actually. You cannot do what people assume politics was about in the old days; you cannot just pull levers and expect things to happen. I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support...
...Just 14 seconds later, Mahler scored on a feed from freshman defensemen Billy Geist, giving Harvard a two-goal lead less than half a minute into the contest. Cohen would beat Dartmouth goalie Michael Novosel once more in the period, but the Big Green scored two late goals to pull within...