Far from assuming that the swing of the pendulum will in good time carry the Tories inexorably back to power, some of his party's leaders have privately written off their chances of victory in the next election.
Mr Netanyahu, with an eye to the middle-of-the-road voter, could conceivably swing the pendulum leftwards again in the months ahead, perhaps carrying out the next phase of withdrawal prescribed by Wye and softening his refusal to free more political prisoners.
Unfortunately, liberal defenders of unemployment benefits swing the pendulum too far in the other direction.
"We are part of the pendulum swing in America to artisan foods and drinks, " echoes Stranahan's Jess Graber.
If the economy continues to falter because we are not raising revenues and if we begin to see more and more homeless and hear more stories of the elderly dying for lack of medical care and nourishment, the pendulum hopefully will swing back .
That's partly because capital has taken such a large share of profits for so many years that the pendulum is bound to swing back and partly because, having just given trillions of dollars to the banks, politicians will be under pressure to put vast amounts of money into saving jobs.
Does this mean the pendulum will swing back to the days of the glassed-in mainframe computing center?
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The pendulum of anonymity has begun to swing toward new kinds of restraint.
Sober experts both inside and outside the administration realise that the economic good news cannot last forever, and that the pendulum of exponential calculation can easily swing back.
But now, Leinberger told CNN, it appears the pendulum is beginning to swing back in favor of the type of walkable community that existed long before the advent of the once fashionable suburbs in the 1940s.
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So the pendulum may swing back towards someone in the mould of Jacques Delors, the president from 1985 to 1994.
Analysts said winning Facebook would have helped swing the pendulum in the Big Board operator's favor in terms of recruiting future listings and potential transfers.
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