"Last year we not only did a straw poll but also had a national poll we announced simultaneously, " said Al Cardenas, chairman of the American Conservative Union, the organization that puts on the conference.
No custom isotopes and lead syringes here, and squeamish readers can skip this part: In completely medieval fashion, a nasogastric tube is inserted through the nose, while the patient (read, victim) drinks water through a straw to ensure that the tube does not wind up in a lung.
It's not like one of those cruises where you come back with a straw hat and forget about it.
"As far as 'Syria next on the list', we made clear that it is not, " Straw told reporters in Bahrain, his first stop in a tour that will take him to Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Dame Ruth chaired a recent inquiry into drugs law which recommended that cannabis be downgraded from a class B to a class C drug, though she said Mr Straw did not appear ready to do so.
This is not because some puppet-master is pulling strings to fudge the data (a straw man rebuttal if there ever was one).
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By then war with Iraq may have intervened, but even that, Mr Straw insisted this week, would not be enough to deflect the holding of a euro referendum.
Recently, Jack Straw - then foreign secretary - said that a return to these islands was not "practical".
Activist factions can disproportionately dominate a straw poll, caucus or even a closed partisan primary, but they are not remotely representative of the general electorate.
Earlier this year, ECB chief executive Tim Lamb said he had received a letter from Foreign secretary Jack Straw which was "tantamount to an instruction" not to tour Zimbabwe in November.
Any threat to Chile's stability and its future as a democracy, or Britain's own national interest, says Mr Straw, does not outweigh Britain's obligation to extradite.
Thankfully, I had not dug myself into a financial hole while I was drifting and fooling around during my 20s, chasing straw people of all kinds.
If Krugman wants to create a straw man alternative to Obama Care, he should look at the status quo, not at what Romney may or may not do as President.
The former Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw said on Thursday it was "a matter of great regret" that he did not do more during his time in office to investigate the claims of the Hillsborough campaigners, while arguing that it was the Conservative Thatcher government which had created a "culture of impunity" within the police.
The lawsuit alleges that as early as 2010, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had identified brothers Otilio and Ranferi Osorio and Kelvin Morrison as straw purchasers for Mexican cartels, but did not act to stop them from purchasing more weapons, a pair of which ultimately found their way to the crime scene in Mexico.
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Interestingly, a letter from Mr Straw among the 450, 000 pages scrutinised by the independent panel suggests he was not immune to that culture.
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