1.   Joyce managed to develop and moderate his style of vituperative public rhetoric.

2.   In public hardline rhetoric also seemed appropriate at a time when McCarthy and his communist witch-hunt were riding high.

3.   It was not long before the administration in practice became less dogmatic and less impulsive than its public rhetoric and even its diplomacy suggested.

4.   Behind the public rhetoric, however, the most pressing issue for both candidates is money.

5.   -- The notion that Americans are working more for less pay is firmly embedded in public rhetoric.

6.   Even at top levels of government, the tone of public rhetoric on environmental topics is much sharper and more urgent in Europe than in the United States.

7.   He responded by muting his public rhetoric for a time, abandoning his pledge to keep tongue-lashing Clinton.

8.   His performance is still uneven and his public rhetoric remains ambiguous, particularly when he is speaking to Arab audiences.

9.   Much of his public rhetoric suggests that Russia remains capable using its military to play a Soviet-era global role.

10.   Or the cut, which contradicted American public rhetoric, might have defied Washington.