Because he was writing novels when the form was so new, an argument can be made that Defoe's casting of fiction as fact was simply a daring experiment within an emerging genre.
So we are back to uncertainty casting a pall over business investment and growth in Japan, uncertainty made more ominous by the fact that there is no apparent end or solution to its cause.
Republican critics made no claim they can defeat the bill in committee and concentrated instead on casting doubt on assertions that it will secure the U.S.-Mexican border before it allows immigrants illegally in the United States to take their first steps toward legal status.