Vladimir Zhirinovsky's ultra-nationalist Liberal Democrats are, like their leader, notoriously extreme in rhetoric but highly pragmatic in practice.
Since at least 2008, many in government and industry have indulged in rhetoric that has allowed for this situation.
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Suitably for the party that is the traditional home of the green-minded, the Liberal Democrats have cornered the market in rhetoric.
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At least in rhetoric, the Tories stood for rolling back the state, while Labour was associated with nationalisation and trade union rule.
In other words, Huck, who bashes big businesses and stock market punters in rhetoric and small businesses in his policy positions, has left himself with no natural business support whatsoever.
"I think there's no question that he's a pragmatic politician, and I think he has seen the need to be bipartisan at least in rhetoric and maybe in practice, but I wouldn't over-emphasise this, in that the US is a very different kind of political system, " says James Cronin, a professor of history at Boston College.
Mr Trimble, leader of the largest unionist party, has been less apocalyptic in his rhetoric, but just as reluctant to engage in genuine negotiations with nationalists.
And does he think there might need to be some sort of detente in some of the rhetoric in the campaign?
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Our continued willingness to ensnare ourselves in the rhetoric of peace processes demonstrates how little we have progressed in the past decade.
And it is disconcerting when religious and ethnic parochialism is apparent in reformasi rhetoric.
The substance of the pricing debate gets carried away in the rhetoric of politics.
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Venezuela has come up a number of times in Republican rhetoric during the U.S. race.
Philanthropists could be forgiven for thinking that they have been transformed, in ministerial rhetoric, from heroes to tax-dodgers.
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Now the contradictions: Najib has leaned to the reformist side of the governing bloc, particularly in his rhetoric.
That's why in his rhetoric, and that of his allies, Social Security is no longer an issue but a crisis.
After all, the Arab dictators it faced were equally unflinching -- in their rhetoric, at least, even if their actions often failed to match.
According to Joseph LaVorgna, Chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank, a recent in Fed rhetoric has significantly impacted market perceptions of near-to-medium term monetary policy.
Of course, the Morales performance did not end in mere rhetoric.
Mr Halliday steers an informed path between the myth of pervasive external control, trumpeted in fundamentalist rhetoric and anti-imperialist literature, and the illusion of a ring-fenced Middle Eastern independence.
Demonising his opponent's ideas, appropriating the popular aspects of them and couching the overall policy in populist rhetoric is a coherent strategy, and one Mr Gore excels at: remember his demolition of Bill Bradley's health-care plans.
"It's because Tony Blair's philosophy and politics and rhetoric was coming across so clearly, that Labour did not respect and value pensioners, and the 75p from wretched Gordon Brown was just a confirmation of what pensioners were already picking up, in the rhetoric that Labour was choosing to employ, " said Mr Willetts.
What we do know is that Israel, an otherwise familiar player in Palestinian political rhetoric, was largely a bit-part player in these elections.
If he does, and if People Before Profit's Eamonn McCann builds on past results in Foyle it could have an impact on the level of rhetoric in the hitherto rather uninspiring Stormont chamber.
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Both combatants are extremists, prone to violence and heated rhetoric in support of their causes.
The concept of fairness, so engrained in current political rhetoric, is given its own civic bullet-point.
The strident rhetoric in ACC could further divide the electorate and the government on climate change.
To be sure, there will be more posturing and empty rhetoric in evidence in the Senate this week.
First, political rhetoric in general has indeed become more polar between Democrats and Republicans in recent years.
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