And basically to distract, I think, attention from that and to change the subject.
Failed leaders whine, complain, blame others and then change the subject to something where they have no accountability.
And as Clinton, Kerry, Gates and Hamilton all make clear, the administration's policy for dealing with those dangers is to change the subject and hope the American public won't notice or mind.
Obama's basic belief that Israel's strength and size are to blame for all the violence and radicalism in the Arab world is not subject to change regardless of how clearly and continuously events on the ground prove it wrong.
And when they walked in Moyad quickly flipped the papers over so that they couldn't be seen, and instructed everyone to change the subject, which obviously, if you were talking about charitable matters, he wouldn't have had to do.
They are also probably a precipitating factor in the kind of provocative statements and diversionary tactics that the Iranians have used to try to change the subject from the fact that they will not abide by their international obligations, and that is why they are the subject of this kind of pressure and this kind of isolation.
So I suspect that at some point in the not too distant future, we'll see him and his aides trying to change the subject on to something - away from the Clintons on to something more Obama-specific.
And when moderator Gwen Ifill asked about consumers who face debt or difficulties with their mortgages, she actually asked to change the subject and went back to another answer on energy exploration, which had been fully covered minutes before.
The easiest way to regain ground may be to change the subject and to go slow on reform.
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The change meant that spouses and dependent children weren't subject to the new reporting requirements.
He took every opportunity to change the subject to economics and the woes of the average American.
Last week the Federal Reserve laid out the ground rules for its 2013 Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) and revealed a significant change for the 19 banks subject to the test.
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But if America's recovery continues to falter, the dominant issue in next year's election is going to be the economy, making it easier for Mr Romney to change the subject from Romneycare and religion to a subject where he has a stronger story to tell.
However these limits, and the amount you can invest in a pension annually, are subject to change at the whim of the government.
"The branch has been identified as one that could potentially be partnered with a retailer between the autumn of this year and spring of 2015, with any change being subject to a six week public consultation to gather the views of the local community, " said a spokesperson for the Post Office.
He sees himself as an objective scholar and in the earlier parts of this autobiography, which loosely takes the form of a diary, with entries signed Milton or Rose, he holds to the view that serious scholars in a scientific subject like economics are similarly objective and change their views in line with the evidence.
Second, demographics are destiny and even the Solid South is subject to change.
Of course, none of this is final, and it's all subject to change, but its was certainly nice to actually use the OS to launch and play a game -- now all we need is a real device with a final OS and we'll be able to form some real impressions.
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The new guidelines also say that "to avoid creating unrealistic expectations" it should be made clear where policy has been finalised and will not be subject to change as a result of the consultation.
Again, we haven't heard word one from Activision, and with over four months until this supposed date, things are likely subject to change (assuming these even came from the publisher in the first place, and weren't just magically pulled out of a large, black cap with frilly edges).
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That's part of every campaign, and it's often the result of one side trying to change the subject when they're losing the debate on the substantive policy issues that matter most to the American people.
The president has played to the crowd politically, but the principles underlying his policies are opaque and continually subject to change.
He has written an interesting treatise on the subject (having had a change of heart) and proposed, as other tax and legal scholars, that IRC 107 is unconstitutional.
The credit scored high because it did two things that TPC analysts felt were essential to economic stimulus: it raised take-home pay quickly via a change in the withholding tables (subject to some controversy) and it did so for people who would spend it.
They cannot change the subject to defence without raising the question of Iraq and the growing rows among leading Republicans over what to do about it (James Baker, secretary of state under George Bush senior and head of a group of wise men known as the Iraq Study Group, all but argued this week that the invasion was a mistake).
No doubt that will change the practice of the subject, just as astronomy, physics and genetics changed when they became big.
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There has been a lot of talk among politicians and experts in emergency preparedness about changing FEMA. I want to talk about it as an expert on profoundly changing complex organizations, a subject I've written about in my books Leading Change and The Heart of Change.
That more verticals are subject to technology overhaul is exciting, and the causal roots of this change are manifold.
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