Depressingly, under the Obama administration the US will not lift a finger to support Syrian regime opponents.
And yet, Obama has refused to lift a finger against the mullahs.
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In fact, most folks never lift a finger to calibrate their displays, plug better speakers in, or place those speakers in actually advantageous spots.
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Indonesia's Suharto fell victim to the impersonal forces of the international economy--the United States didn't even lift a finger to ease him out the door.
Consequently, Beijing will not lift a finger to achieve that goal.
And it was utter madness to think that European military forces would lift a finger to prevent Hezbollah from reasserting full control over the border with Israel.
But try to get a dealer to return your call, an instructor to show up on time for your lesson or a hangar operator to lift a finger to help you.
Will they even be able to lift a finger?
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Nor did he lift a finger against John Stroger and his son Todd, who succeeded his father as president of Cook County's Board of Commissioners shortly before Stroger senior died last January.
Unfortunately, though, due to the timeline Obama has set, it is clear that before he will be ready to lift a finger against Iran, the mullocracy will have already become a nuclear power.
So what do we call Westerners who won't lift a finger against him but voluntarily embrace the destruction of their own way of life to avert what may very well be an imaginary crisis?
Few Brazilian men lift a finger at home.
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The fact is that the moral arguments used for intervening militarily on behalf of Gaddafi's opposition pale in comparison to the moral arguments for intervening in multiple conflicts where the Obama administration refuses to lift a finger.
"In our country, where there's so much red tape, nobody would even lift a finger without me signing a paper first, even if they have different opinions about who's in charge, " Medvedev told CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" in an exclusive interview airing Sunday.
From then on, any time the user clicks on a Web site, program or database that requires its own user ID and password, the software issues the proper credentials, all in the background, without the user having to lift a finger or remember a word.
To wit: The US is unwilling to lift a finger to defend itself against an act of information warfare which exposed to the world that the US is unwilling to lift a finger to protect itself and its allies from the most profound military threats endangering international security today.
Not only have Congressional Republicans failed to lift a finger to protect these small businesses and hard working Americans from this financial burden created by the failure of the rich and influential to do their share, the party has consistently blocked any and all efforts to correct this shameful reality.
For example, The Now Network doesn't lift a proverbial finger when a phone is ordered -- UPS takes care of plucking the right handset from its inventory and shipping it off to a customer.
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