For someone of the all-too-common opinion that a strong defense is the cause of war, a favorite trick is to advance a wholesale revision of strategy, so that he may accomplish his depredations while looking like a reformer.
In conclusion, the participants expressed their commonopinion about the necessity to organize the Third Meeting within the VII Hydrological Congress (October 2013) for evaluation of their involvement to the IHP-VII (2008-2013) and plan the activities for IHP-VIII (2014-2019).
Former Justice Secretary Jack Straw also agreed that the plans would make "significant changes", particularly the plans to replace the common law defence of "fair comment" with "honest opinion".
Flynn asked them to rate themselves and their co-workers on the frequency they performed common office favors, such as helping with problem solving, providing a second opinion or sharing an especially heavy workload.
Justice Antonin Scalia's majority opinion said that citizens were guaranteed a right to keep firearms that were in common use in their homes for self-defense, but that the government could pass reasonable regulations concerning firearms and ammunition.
Anyone who scans much online technology journalism will know that snarky opinion pieces and cheap reviews - offered to readers for nothing - are its common currency so asking for cash to support heavyweight reporting seemed optimistic to say the least.