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We shall have to wait and see if the changes of Margaret Thatcher's political fortunes are reflected in the language as spoken in Britain, for one might be tempted to infer that the assertiveness of her tenure was partly responsible for the demise of the subjunctive in contrary-to-fact constructions--at least in those perceived by her to be contrary to what she perceived as fact.
The NYT , in its front page Reno piece, says she has just completed "one of the most humiliating weeks in her tenure."
Albright's U.N. tenure is best remembered for two things: her sandbagging of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and her proclamation that Cuba's shooting down of planes flown by anti-Castro exiles took "not cojones " but "cowardice."
As I have discussed, my predecessors did a tremendous amount to ensure that GAO had the capacity and capabilities to serve the Congress and prepare for the future during their tenure.
On the one hand, his lawyers said, Lincoln, not Johnson, had appointed Stanton, and so the Tenure of Office Act didn't apply; on the other hand, they claimed, Johnson had deliberately flouted the law to test it in the Supreme Court.