But a recent article in American Prospect disputes such assertions, arguing that the NRA's impact is marginal these days because it spreads itself thinly and tends to support Republican incumbents.
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In April he told a reporter with The American Prospect that he regretted the 2001 study and the effect it had on the gay community, and that he owed the community an apology.
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The most intriguing American prospect is Jack Sock.
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There is, however, little realistic prospect that American financial assistance will be forthcoming for Syria.
Maybe the prospect of American forces being pulled out will concentrate Iraqi minds.
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So this is a temporary stop on what I believe is the long-term, outstanding prospect for American growth and greatness.
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But the prospect of American bombers flying into action against the wishes of many council members and most of the Arab world is daunting.
Any misgivings in Washington about an agreement with South Korea have been more than matched on the streets of Seoul, where thousands have protested against the prospect of American beef imports.
The prospect that the American economy might grow faster than expected thanks to interest-rate cuts has also fuelled concern.
The prospect of an American withdrawal horrifies the British and the French, who did not relish their earlier experience of being in Bosnia without the Americans.
The prospect of an American strike diminished after America's intelligence services published their inconvenient finding last December that Iran had stopped trying to design a nuclear weapon in 2003.
These factors together with domestic political considerations were sufficient to prompt the Indians to proceed, despite the prospect of serious American economic sanctions, as well as international condemnation.
This would be a chilling prospect for the American people whose taxes are currently scheduled to go up on January 1st because of arrangements that were made back in 2001 and 2003 under the Bush tax cuts.
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However, I do not foresee a very strong dollar this year because the prospect of greater American mercantile pressure ahead of the presidential election should not be underestimated (the bill to impose quotas on steel imports was passed by Congress just before a large January trade deficit).
In the currency market, the prospect of a potential American default also remained the main consideration.
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American officials are talking up the prospect for success, although Chinese statements hardly justify their optimism.
Alarmed by the prospect of a new American imperium, European leaders will once again try to use the United Nations to rein in America.
It remains possible that the prospect of an early American departure will at the last minute concentrate minds in Baghdad and bring about some kind of Sunni-Shia accommodation.
The new data collection platforms right in front of us are much more likely to affect our lives than is the prospect of drones overhead surveilling American citizens.
Only those who manage to evade American coastguards to reach the shore, a difficult prospect on a raft, are given automatic asylum.
The prospect of a showdown with a new American administration, which fills rightist Israelis with trepidation and at least some leftist ones with hope, has arisen every four years since the occupation began after the 1967 war.
Of perhaps greatest immediate concern to the American people, however, is the assistance now in prospect from European and other sources to Fidel Castro's bid to complete two Soviet-designed and irretrievably flawed VVER-440 nuclear reactors.
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Lehman Brothers seems to have decided that the prospect for German shares is better than it is for American ones.
Then there were others who were dislodged from political apathy by the prospect of casting a historic ballot for the first African-American president.
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Never once during those episodes has the United States defaulted on interest payments on the national debt nor has it had to suspend or reduce Social Security payments, although the prospect of both calamities occurring is always used to scare the American public into supporting an unconditional increase in the debt limit fairly quickly after the debt ceiling is reached.
Ray Haynes and led by Casey Institute Chair Roger W. Robinson, Jr. illuminated for members of the California state legislature's Joint Legislative Audit Committee (JLAC) a distressing prospect: Many millions of dollars in CalPERS' and other American investment portfolios are being unwittingly invested in companies engaged in behavior inconsistent with this country's fundamental human rights precepts and national security interests.
Anger has been heightened by the prospect of affording these terrorists the panoply of constitutional rights enjoyed by American citizens so that they might use our civilian courts as platforms for waging political warfare against us.
An even more troubling prospect arises from a bid Hutchison Whampoa and two partners (one an American company called Savi Technology) are making to win U.S. government contracts to enhance security at American ports.
Thanks to the prospect of swift inter-government cooperation and to the remarkable generosity of the American people, affected communities will chart a sound path toward recovery.
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