By the same token, the yearning for government spending on "infrastructure" to stimulate economic activity creates an opening for the new president to push the kind of green projects that fit his call for a transition to alternative energy sources, including new kinds of mass-transit systems.

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By the same token, firms develop drugs for the global market, observes Alan Garber of Stanford, not just for the local one.

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By the same token, the odds have improved for Yasuo Fukuda, a grand old party man who belongs to the same faction as Mr Abe.

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By the same token, his St Malo initiative for an autonomous European defence capacity was in part a way to compensate for Britain's abstention from monetary union.

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By the same token, people need to prepare themselves for a downside they haven't experienced yet.

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By the same token, they might suggest that the case for more quantitative easing by the Bank of England is that much stronger.

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By the same token, he explains away his past support for a ban on assault weapons as a concession to local sensibilities, not to be repeated on the national stage.

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By the same token, when Newt Gingrich, another candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, suggested that illegal immigrants of good character and long standing should be allowed to stay, Mr Romney attacked him too.

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By the same token, I would say there are some grounds for that.

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