In general, those males who had been undeterred by the presence of the paper attacked the newly presented competitor with vigour while those who had been intimidated by it seemed reluctant to attack the putative competitor if, indeed, they attacked him at all.

ECONOMIST: Animal personalities

This you contrast with the vigour with which the Prevention of Terrorism Act has been deployed against those Muslims held to be responsible for the arson attack (or possibly accident) that claimed 58 lives, mostly Hindu, earlier that year.

ECONOMIST: America's hard men

Yet to the horror of chafing nativists, the federal government seems disinclined to pursue with much vigour any illegal immigrants except those who have also committed other crimes.

ECONOMIST: The Supreme Court��s politics