But reality doesn t match official rhetoric.

He was not alone in this rhetoric.

Emily won first prize in the speech contest.

What Syria needs is not rhetoric or charisma it needs action.

I have always been skeptical about the rhetoric of a common foreign policy for the EU.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has accused US Vice President Michael Pence of using Cold War era rhetoric

How can you possibly expect a country such as, say, France to accept being voted down by its EU partners on vital foreign and security policy issues?

In their rhetoric, President Dmitri Medvedev and his technocrats embrace this vision.

From their rhetoric and regulatory policies, it would appear that most governments have ended up in the third, fence sitting camp.

America wants to dominate the world exactly the allegations made in traditional anti Semitic rhetoric about the Jews.

Governor Sarah Palin strode onto the national stage, rhetorical guns blazing.

But, contrary to populist rhetoric, it is not just rich, well connected bondholders who get bailed out.

Today s Israeli leaders, however, in their rhetoric and behavior, often sound more like the old European anti Semites.

In Egypt, Mubarak turned his back on the lofty rhetoric of Gamal Abdel Nasser s revolution and its grand strategic designs.

It remains far from clear, however, whether the shift in rhetoric and policy will move the planet any closer to embracing the best response.

Arab rhetoric often takes the colonial experiences of Algeria and South Africa as models for their conflict with Zionism.

In fact, the obsession with Syria's sectarian rivalries provides destabilizing external forces with the oxygen that their inflammatory rhetoric requires.

Some people in Russia traditional leftists and corrupt bureaucrats afraid of a more open system indulge in anti American rhetoric.

Indeed, the goal of regional co operation could be perverted if empty political rhetoric is allowed to dominate sound policy making.

Likewise, the Tea Party, which showed no interest in racist language or iconography at its outset, increasingly injects such demagoguery into its messages.

Like Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry Truman before him, Bush turned to the rhetoric of democracy to rally his followers in a time of crisis.

But the primary objective for intervention would remain unequivocally humanitarian, and as such would be much less susceptible to anti Western blowback than any other mission.

Unlike most candidates, Obama maintained this transformational rhetoric even after it secured him his victory in the 2008 campaign.

But a democratically elected government should be judged on its politics, not on the rhetoric of a populist politician, however vulgar and repulsive.

Anyone making such comparisons might seem to have fallen victim to the irrational political rhetoric that is already pervading America s presidential election campaign.

But while shifts in US rhetoric may be collateral benefits of the current military campaign, the Israel related explanation of organized hatred falls short. There were no Palestinians among the September 11th terrorists, and the Islamic world's solidarity with the Palestinian cause is in any case largely rhetorical and tactical.

But while shifts in US rhetoric may be collateral benefits of the current military campaign, the Israel related explanation of organized hatred falls short.

The intentions of the 14 were the noblest imaginable that the Union should be safeguarded against the xenophobia manifested in the rhetoric of the leader of the Austrian Freedom Party, Mr. Jörg Haider. When Austrian conservatives in January started negotiations with Haider s party on a new coalition to take power after many years of complacent conservative socialist governments, alarm bells rang across Europe.

The intentions of the 14 were the noblest imaginable that the Union should be safeguarded against the xenophobia manifested in the rhetoric of the leader of the Austrian Freedom Party, Mr. Jörg Haider.

Lately, however, Moscow has reportedly increased weapons transfers into the separatist enclaves and it has been peddling a rhetorical line about the ceasefire being functionally dead.

Now we must lead a nation in which thanks to the cynical ploys and hate filled rhetoric of a discredited regime some sections seem to be set against the democracy we seek to build.

This is a radical departure from Hamas rhetoric, which has always portrayed the Camp David agreement between Israel and Egypt as a betrayal of the Islamic world. It remains to be seen whether Abu Marzouk s view is merely a tactic intended to encourage the Obama administration to reach out to Hamas, or whether the war convinced Hamas that the two state solution is the only viable option to settle the conflict with Israel.

The unfortunate paradox in Georgia and elsewhere in the post Soviet world is that self serving pro Western rhetoric has often led democratic values to be sacrificed in favor of a new dictatorship.

This is a radical departure from Hamas rhetoric, which has always portrayed the Camp David agreement between Israel and Egypt as a betrayal of the Islamic world.

CAMBRIDGE Some critics complain that US President Barack Obama campaigned on inspirational rhetoric and an ambition to bend the arc of history, but then turned out to be a transactional and pragmatic leader once in office.

Of course, unlike Wikipedia, the three websites that were striking on July 2 do in fact host a lot of pirated content (along with many public domain works a la Project Gutenberg), which lends a certain ironic air to their rhetoric.

North Korea has tempered its rhetoric and behavior, but the Kim regime has given no indication that it is willing to give up the nuclear weapons program that it regards as vital to its security and prestige.

What comes next is uncertain.

In their rhetoric, President Dmitri Medvedev and his technocrats embrace this vision.