Mr Talat has invested so much political capital in his settlement talks that, if he gets no deal, even more voters may turn against him.
The longer it takes a business leader or a section manager, for example, to acknowledge his or her mistake, the more likely the undecided folks will turn against him or her.
Mr Clinton would have to bungle things badly to turn people against him if this is all Mr Starr can produce.
Too proud to court public opinion, he goes through the motions, but when his enemies turn the crowd against him, his fury only makes matters worse and the general is banished from Rome.
Since the financial industry is at the heart of Thailand's economic problems, and as Mr Tarrin helped design the plan to sell assets to foreigners, a two-day mud-slinging match could turn many voters against him.
He admits that every time he steps in front of a lectern, it could turn into another count against him in his court-martial.
Even if few of them will now switch to support Mr Lazio, far fewer will feel provoked to turn out to vote against him.
The character has to be someone who's actions horrify us, but whose enthusiasm and ability to make the system do his bidding turn him into the hero against our will.
Still the odds are stacked against him, which in turn represents a broader problem facing those who seek dramatic change in India.
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Eventually, he will probably follow Mr Morales in trying to turn Mr Sanchez's business experience against him: one of his Laredo banks failed in the 1980s savings-and-loan scandal, and he was investigated for laundering drug money.
This is a shocking turn of events for Nicholas, considering the traction two indictments levied against him in federal court in 2008 got with the media.
Already in a relaxed mood, Torre jokingly said that Jeter was still holding a grudge against him for something that had innocuously occurred in a game at the turn of the 21st century.
That deal, in turn, only came after his failure to respond to the court led to a default judgment against him.
Despite the fact that the charges against him were dropped Tuesday, Gates said he plans to use the attention and turn his intellectual heft and stature to the issue of racial profiling.
It was in this context that Detective James McLaughlin, sex-crimes investigator for the Keene police department, would turn his attention to the priest and play a key role in the effort to build a case against him.
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