religion, get religion, religious, bunk, debunk, canvassing, assiduity. Turnout Is a Focus in a Closely Divided Race

Turnout Is a Focus in a Closely Divided Race

Democrats in battleground states have built a tightly structured get-out-the-vote operation, while Republicans have relied more on outside groups for canvassing.

And a much-publicized discovery that ocean acidification alters fish behavior turned out to be bunk.

It is extremely hard to change people's minds on polarised issues. But a study reported in the magazine "Science" found that one canvassing technique had convinced people to change their minds about gay marriage. There was only one problem: the study was bunk. Yet if it is so hard to convince people to change their minds about gay marriage, why are people changing their minds about gay marriage?tp://econ.st/1IQZDzW


Not persuaded
IT IS almost impossible to change people's opinions on divisive political issues by arguing with them. This is rather depressing for opinion journalists and others...
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"The internet’s enthusiasm for a vigorous debunking now frequently spills over into what you might call the pseudo-debunk. Sometimes, this involves cynically claiming you’re debunking when you’re really just disagreeing – thereby implying that your opinion is more than mere opinion; it’s “the facts”. More common is the debunking of claims subtly different from those originally made. You may have learned, in recent months, that you can’t actually become a world-class expert in anything you like, merely by putting in 10,000 hours of practice. But do you realize that nobody really said that in the first place?"




'Detoxing' has been debunked. Maybe it's time to debunk that


Oliver Burkeman: We live in an age when disagreeing with something too...


THEGUARDIAN.COM|由 OLIVER BURKEMAN 上傳religion ： (1) 宗教；宗教信仰；宗教生活：指人類與神明之間的交往。宗教乃世人對天主表示尊敬和崇拜的美德，具體來說，宗教是信仰、恭敬天主的團體。自然律要人恭敬天主；天主更透過舊約和新約命人恭敬天主。 (2) 欽敬；修道生活。

religion

(rĭ-lĭj'ən)
n.

1. 1. Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe.
   2. A personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship.
2. The life or condition of a person in a religious order.
3. A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader.
4. A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.

[Middle English religioun, from Old French religion, from Latin religiō, religiōn-, perhaps from religāre, to tie fast. See rely.]

OED

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French religion; Latin religiōn-, religiō.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman religioun, religiun, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French religion (French religion ) system of beliefs and practices based on belief in, or acknowledgement of, some superhuman power or powers, also any particular such system (both first half of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman, originally in commune religion , translating post-classical Latin catholica religio ; the figurative use in sense 4b is apparently not paralleled in French until later (c1810)), monastery (c1130 in Anglo-Norman), religious house (1139 in Anglo-Norman), action or conduct indicating belief in, obedience to, and reverence for a god, gods, or similar superhuman power, piety, devotion (c1145), state of life bound by religious vows (c1150), scrupulousness, conscientiousness (c1210), religious order (end of the 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), (specifically) Protestantism (1533 in ceulx de la religion the Protestants, lit. ‘those of the religion’) and its etymon classical Latin religiōn-, religiō supernatural feeling of constraint, usually having the force of a prohibition or impediment, that which is prohibited, taboo, positive obligation, rule, impediment to action proceeding from religious awe or conscience, scruple, manifestation of divine sanction, religious fear, awe, religious feeling, superstition, quality evoking awe or reverence, sanctity, religious observance, religious practice, ritual, particular system of religious observance, cult, conscientiousness, in post-classical Latin also monastic community (8th cent.), religious order, rule observed by a religious order (12th cent.) < re- re- prefix + a second element of uncertain origin; by Cicero connected with relegere to read over again (see relection n.), so that the supposed original sense of ‘religion’ would have been ‘painstaking observance of rites’, but by later authors (especially by early Christian writers) with religāre religate v., ‘religion’ being taken as ‘that which ties believers to God’. Each view finds supporters among modern scholars.

Compare Old Occitan religio (late 12th cent., earliest in sense ‘religious order’), Catalan religió (13th cent.), Spanish religión (end of the 12th cent.), Portuguese religião (13th cent.), Italian religione (second half of the 13th cent.). The Latin word was also borrowed into other Germanic languages: compare Middle Dutch, Dutch †religioen state of life bound by religious vows, religie system of faith and worship, belief in superhuman powers, etc., Middle Low German religiōn, religie, German Religion (early 16th cent.), Swedish religion (1539), Danish religion (16th cent.).

religion ： (1) 宗教；宗教信仰；宗教生活：指人類與神明之間的交往。宗教乃世人對天主表示尊敬和崇拜的美德，具體來說，宗教是信仰、恭敬天主的團體。自然律要人恭敬天主；天主更透過舊約和新約命人恭敬天主。 (2) 欽敬；修道生活。

religion, jewish ：猶太宗教：指猶太民族對唯一真神上主（雅威）天主的信仰、禮儀朝拜以及遵守法律的生活態度。由始祖亞巴郎開始，組成了一個敬拜唯一天主的民族，再由梅瑟正式立法。

religion , natural ：自然宗教：指以自然為中心的宗教，認為宇宙實體含有靈性的生命和力量，是神臨現的處所，而應以宗教情緒相待。亞洲的自然宗教雖傾向於多神崇拜，但經常也混合著至上神的信仰。又稱原始宗教。

religion, popular ：民間宗教：指民間基層的信仰，是一種對生命的目標及其終極意義的直覺性之理解，表達在（優良）習俗、傳統及民間活動中。又稱通俗信仰或常民信仰，其特色是： (1) 沒有教主， (2) 沒有入教儀式， (3) 沒有教團， (4) 教義是儒、釋、道、巫四部份的混合：儒的祖先崇拜、釋的經典、道的儀式、巫的法術融合而成。是道地的民族性傳統宗教。

religion from Abraham ：源自亞巴郎的宗教：包括猶太教、回教、天主教、東正教、基督新教等與亞巴郎的信仰多少有些關連的宗教。其他的宗教像印度教、佛教、自然宗教等則與亞巴郎的信仰並無交集，故稱之為非源自亞巴郎的宗教 religion non from Abraham 。

religiosity ： (1) 宗教情緒。 (2) 外表虔誠。

religious ： (1) 宗教（性）的；虔誠的。 (2) 修道的；修會的；會士；修士；修女。

religious act ：宗教行為：指人對自己存在中的超越奧秘的表達，使人對自己的存在作全面、深入的探索，進而把人領到神面前。

Religious, Sacred Congregation of ：修會聖部：羅馬教廷部會之一， 1586 年由教宗思道五世（ Sixtus V ）成立，幾經改組；主管有關修會及度共同生活之教會團體（ religious Institutes ）之行政、紀律、學術研究、財產、特權等。 1967 年 8 月教宗保祿六世（ Paul VI ）改名為修會及俗世部（ Sacred Congregation of Religious and Secular Institutes ）。今改為奉獻生活及使徒團體部 Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life 。

religious congregation ：修會；獻身生活團體：男女教友獻身教會，矢發貧窮（神貧）、貞潔、服從三願，度共同獻身生活之團體。此類團體系天主教體制內之社團，各修會之工作和服務的方式或物件雖有所不同，但均有同一之信仰，並非教派；也都與教宗保持共融。

religious house ：會院；會館：修會人士共同居住之處所。

religious institute ： (1) 教會事業。 (2) 教會獻身生活團體。 (3) 修會團體（機關）。

religious liberty ：宗教自由；信仰自由：宗教自由乃天賦人權之一，任何權力，都不能強迫任何人，在宗教信仰上，違反其良心行事。人有權依其本人意願抉擇自己的宗教信仰，因為每人受其天性的驅使，負有道德責任去追求真理，尤其是有關宗教的真理，而人除非享有心理自由，便不能完成此一責任（參閱梵二：信仰自由宣言）。但宗教自由並不表示各宗教皆為真宗教。

religious life ： (1) 宗教生活。 (2) 修會生活；獻身生活。

religious name ：會名：修士、修女入會時所取之名。參閱 Christian name 。

religious order ：修會：由教會批准矢發三願，度共同獻身生活之教會團體。 Order 廣義地說指一切修會，狹義地說僅指古代修會，如本篤會、思定會、方濟會、道明會等。

religious rule ：會規；會典：修會或獻身生活團體共同遵守之規則。

religious spirit ： (1) 宗教精神。 (2) 修會精神；獻身生活精神。

religious superior ：修會會長；修會院長；修會上司。

religious vocation ：修會聖召；獻身生活聖召：內心受到天主的召喚去參加修會，而度獻身的生活。

religious vows ：聖願；修會聖願；獻身生活聖願：參加修會之人員所矢發的貧窮（神貧）、貞潔、服從三誓願。

idiom:
get religion Informal.

1. To become religious or devout.
2. To resolve to end one's immoral behavior.

[名]

1 [U]宗教

believe in religion
宗教を信じる.

2 宗派, 宗旨, …教；宗教団体, 宗団, 宗徒, 信徒

the Buddhist ［the Christian］ religion
仏教［キリスト教］

practice a religion
（ある）宗派の教えを実践する.

3 [U]宗教心, 信仰心；修道［信仰］生活

one's name in religion
修道名

enter (into) religion
修道院にはいる, 修道者になる.

4 礼拝, 勤行(ごんぎょう).

5 良心にかかわる重大事；主義, 信条

make it a religion to see ［＝make a religion of seeing］ the doctor once a week
週1回必ず医者に診察してもらう

Making money is his religion.
金もうけが彼の生きがいだ.

get religion

((略式))信仰に目覚める, 宗教に走る；((米略式))（ある事を）非常に誠実［真剣］に行う.



湯恩比的說法有沒走樣？religion 即"絆"。
對人類而言，遠比物質更重要的，乃是養成我與他人之間互相忠實，彼此協助的心。
在這些方面給予協助、指導的，就是宗教--* religion的原意。

* religious

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, from Latin religiosus, from religio 'reverence, obligation'(see religion**).

** religion

Origin

Middle English (originally in the sense 'life under monastic vows'): from Old French, or from Latin religio(n-) 'obligation, bond, reverence', perhaps based on Latin religare 'to bind'.

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Etymology[edit]

From Anglo-Norman religiun, from Old French religion, from Latin religiō ‎(“scrupulousness”, “pious misgivings”, “superstition”, “conscientiousness”, “sanctity”, “an object of veneration”, “cult-observance”, “reverence”). Most likely from the Indo-European root h₂leg with the meanings preserved in Latin "dīligěre" and "lěgěre", i.e. to read repeatedly or to have something solely in mind.

Would Jesus be in favour of the death penalty? American Christians are unsure

Religion and the death penalty

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canvassing - definition of canvassing by The Free Dictionary
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v. can·vassed, can·vass·ing, can·vass·es. v.tr. 1. To examine carefully or discuss thoroughly; scrutinize: "The evidence had been repeatedly canvassed in ...

陳音頤的論文(中外文學2000/8 pp.158-87) 對D. H. Lawrence的口語 bunk(胡說....) 的翻譯，是不恰當的:

"the Indian bunk is not Indian's invention. It is ours."印地安的謊言和神話不是印地安人發明的.....
"repudiation of our white bunk." 打破了我們白人的神話


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bunk² (bŭngk)
n.
Empty talk; nonsense.

[Short for BUNKUM.]

Nonsense:anyone with a brain cell would never believe such bunk

bunk

((英俗))[動](他)…を欠席［欠勤］する((off)).

━━(自)逃げ出す；学校をサボる((off)).

bunk it

((俗))逃げる, 逃亡する；（授業などを）サボる.

━━[名]((次の句で))

do a bunk

((英略式))（そうしてはいけないのに）急いで立ち去る, 逃げる.

bunk (BED)

bunk bed

（特に子供用の）2段ベッド.

debunk McJob

Line breaks: de¦bunk

Pronunciation: /diːˈbʌŋk /

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

1Expose the falseness or hollowness of (an idea or belief):she debunks all the usual rubbish about acting

1.1 Reduce the inflated reputation of (someone):

comedy takes delight in debunking heroes

 assiduity
 音節as・si・du・i・ty 発音記号/`æsəd(j)úːəṭi｜‐djúː‐/

【名詞】

1

【不可算名詞】 勉励，勤勉，精励.

用例

with assiduity 精出して, せっせと.

2

【可算名詞】 [通例複数形で] いろいろな配慮，心づかい，尽力.

Great and constant diligence and attention.
Synonyms:	concentration
Usage:	Nell immediately applied herself with great assiduity to the decoration and preparation of the room.

canvass.Republicans have relied more on outside groups for canvassing.

Turnout Is a Focus in a Closely Divided Race

Democrats in battleground states have built a tightly structured get-out-the-vote operation, while Republicans have relied more on outside groups for canvassing.

If you’re just looking, great art doesn’t cost a dime. Four art critics of The New York Times have canvassed the prime gallery neighborhoods to offer a field report.

canvass

(kăn'vəs)
v., -vassed, -vass·ing, -vass·es. v.tr.

1. To examine carefully or discuss thoroughly; scrutinize: “The evidence had been repeatedly canvassed in American courts” (Anthony Lewis).
2. 1. To go through (a region) or go to (persons) to solicit votes or orders.
   2. To conduct a survey of (public opinion); poll.

v.intr.

1. To make a thorough examination or conduct a detailed discussion.
2. To solicit voters, orders, or opinions.

n.

1. An examination or discussion.
2. A solicitation of votes or orders.
3. A survey of public opinion.

[From obsolete canvass, to toss in a canvas sheet as punishment, from CANVAS.]

canvasser can'vass·er n.

improper, misstep, endure, unendurably. Enduring the Unendurable. adulteration, Intel grappled with missteps for years

If it is endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.

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The company grappled with missteps for years while developing a microprocessor code-named Sapphire Rapids. It comes out on Tuesday.

Sometimes Scarlett found it hard to dissemble her feelings, for she still thought Aunt Pitty the silliest of old ladies and her vagueness and vaporings irritated her unendurably.



As outbreak became a global problem, China has sought to repair the damage to its reputation caused by its early missteps, observers say.As outbreak has transitioned into a global problem, Beijing has sought to repair the damage to its reputation caused by its early missteps, observers say.





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The most dangerous three-word phrase in business: “Everyone does it.”

Volkswagen’s deception is a warning to every company

Suddenly, behaviour that was common practice is judged to be improper...

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The action, announced by the European Food Safety Authority and the European Commission, significantly expands the potential geographic reach of a milk adulteration scandal in China to now include a range of foods sold around the world. The Europeans said cookies, toffees and chocolates were the major concerns.



Still, Intel has also continued to benefit from the missteps of its chief rival, Advanced Micro Devices, which for the past year and a half has endured product delays, technical problems and high costs related to its acquisition of the graphics chip maker ATI Technologies.

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The meaning of UNENDURABLE is too unpleasant, painful, or difficult to accept or endure : not endurable : unbearable. 

improper

ɪmˈprɒpə/

adjective

1. not in accordance with accepted standards, especially of morality or honesty.

   "the improper use of public funds"

   • lacking in modesty or decency.

     "an improper suggestion"

endure (EXPERIENCE)
verb [T]
to suffer something difficult, unpleasant or painful:
We had to endure a nine-hour delay at the airport.
She's already had to endure three painful operations on her leg.

endurable
adjective

endurance
noun [U]
the ability to keep doing something difficult, unpleasant or painful for a long time:
Running a marathon is a test of human endurance.
The pain was bad beyond endurance.

misstep

(mĭs-stĕp') 

n.

1. A misplaced or awkward step.
2. An instance of wrong or improper conduct; a blunder.

intr.v., -stepped, -step·ping, -steps.
To make a mistake.

a・dul・ter・ate

━━ vt. 混ぜ物をする, 質を悪くする.
a・dul・ter・ant　━━ n., a. 混ぜ物（に用いる）.
a・dul・ter・a・tion　━━ n.
a・dul・ter・a・tor　━━ n. 粗悪品製造者.
a・dul・ter・ine
, 　━━ a. 混ぜ物をした; 違法の; 不義の.

adulterate

(ə-dŭl'tə-rāt')
tr.v., -at·ed, -at·ing, -ates.
To make impure by adding extraneous, improper, or inferior ingredients.
adj. (-tər-ĭt)

1. Spurious; adulterated.
2. Adulterous.

[Latin adulterāre, adulterāt-, to pollute.]

adulteration a·dul'ter·a'tion n.
adulterator a·dul'ter·a'tor n.

SYNONYMS adulterate, debase, doctor, load. These verbs mean to make impure or inferior by adding foreign substances to something: adulterate coffee with ground acorns; silver debased with copper; doctored the wine with water; rag paper loaded with wood fiber.

wellerism, facetious, on the rise, reconfigured. I promise I don’t mean this in a facetious way: Why did you write “Consider the Turkey”? It’s a small book.

I promise I don’t mean this in a facetious way: Why did you write “Consider the Turkey”? It’s a small book. There aren’t really new arguments in it. Could that time have been better spent doing something else? 

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wellerism
(WEH-luh-ri-zuhm)

noun
An expression involving a familiar proverb or quotation and its facetious sequel. It usually comprises three parts: statement, speaker, situation.
Examples:
"Everyone to his own liking," the old woman said when she kissed her cow.
"We'll have to rehearse that," said the undertaker as the coffin fell out of the car.

Etymology
After Sam Weller and his father, characters known for such utterances in Charles Dickens's novel Pickwick Papers (1837).

Usage
"All of the Shavian proverbs and most of the wellerisms have been recorded in a literary context ... Anyhow, 'So far so good,' as the boy said when he had finished the first pot of his mother's jam." — W F H Nicolaisen; The Proverbial Bernard Shaw; Folklore (London, UK); 1998.
(© Wordsmith.org)

facetious[fa・ce・tious]

• 発音記号[fəsíːʃəs]
• 
  

[形]本気でない；こっけいな, おかしな, おどけた, 軽薄な.

facetious, jocular maxim, standpoint, nonbeliever, samizdat, louche

I promise I don’t mean this in a facetious way: Why did you write “Consider the Turkey”? It’s a small book. There aren’t really new arguments in it. Could that time have been better spent doing something else? 

Are the poor and“The Lady Eve” may be Preston Sturges’s most beloved film. Henry Fonda plays Charles (Hopsie) Pike, a lanky heir to an ale fortune who dabbles as a snake expert. While travelling on a cruise ship, Hopsie falls for a con woman named Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck). After realizing that Jean has been deceiving him, he sulks off to his Connecticut manor, where he encounters Jean again, though this time she has disguised herself as Lady Eve Sidwich, a louche aristocrat. The zany setup involves several layers of self-deception—a theme Sturges explores in many of his films. Read more about the master of the screwball comedy: http://nyer.cm/vo2JqB0 marginalized the most severely impacted by epidemics?

Here we go back to what I said earlier, that epidemics each have their own personalities. Some choose only particular groups disproportionately. Some, if I could be facetious, are more democratic; they affect everyone in a society. So it’s not true to say that the single key to epidemic disease is poverty.

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On Eve of Sentencing, a Show of Solidarity

By MELENA RYZIK 4 minutes ago

On Thursday, a samizdat kind of crowd turned out in New York in support of a Russian punk group whose three young members have been jailed in Moscow since March.

 . Losing My Religion: Critical Thinking May Weaken Faith
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Most of the world's population believes in God, or gods, but alongside them there are also hundreds of millions of nonbelievers. What makes one a believer or not?


"In his rapt attention to his subjects' work and their influence upon him, the book also offers a hesitant and tangential retelling of Derrida's own life in French philosophical history. There are illuminating and playful anecdotes—how Lyotard led Derrida to begin using a word-processor; how Paul de Man talked knowledgeably of jazz with Derrida's son. Anyone who still thinks that Derrida is a facetious punster will find such resentful prejudice unable to survive a reading of this beautiful work."—Steven Poole, Guardian



There is no arguing with faith. As the comedian and outspoken nonbeliever Bill Maher travels the world, interviewing Christians, Jews and Muslims in the facetiously funny documentary “Religulous,” you begin to wonder if there might be two subspecies of humans.



So, looking at Beijing from the standpoint of one who hasn't lived here in more than 20 years, let me be the one to express a slightly facetious nostalgia for the way Beijing was in the late 1970s and early 1980s, just before the economic explosion began.




I look at him and am struck by the aura of louche glamour he carries — like a lounge lizard who reads Flaubert — daring you to cause ripples in his carefully arranged and well-defended image. It is a daunting presentation — Stoppard referred to his "unfortunate and relentless facetious streak" in a talk with the theater critic John Lahr that I went to the day before — and I begin to understand, even before I try to draw him out, why everything I have read about Stoppard seems to recycle the same anecdotes and quips.


White Bordeaux: Oft-Forgotten Bliss
By ERIC ASIMOV There are some serious, potentially profound dry whites from Bordeaux, which takes almost literally the jocular maxim that the first duty of wine is to be red.

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	"From a dynastic standpoint everything was to play for in 1714. Many urged the Pretender to consider that London was worth the abandonment of the mass"
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	"not easy to identify what, in the last analysis, was at issue from the British standpoint, even at two centuries' distance. By 1775 most of the aims of the post-war ... "

V.i.&t.	立足，立場 [li4zu2], [li4chang2]↓.
Words	19. 立足 [li4zu2], v. i., stand on one's own feet, (lit. & fig.) 立足點 n., standpoint.

 

 “Maybe agnostics and atheists will embrace [The Good Book]; maybe Christians will embrace it too as a valuable collection of insights. It might begin as a curiosity and then flourish or remain a cult favorite or just a curiosity. I suppose some might be offended byThe Good Book but they needn't be. You don't have to be a nonbeliever to find solace and wisdom in the distilled ideas presented here.” – Huffington Post on The Good Book

samizdat (SAH-miz-daht)

noun: An underground publishing system used to print and circulate banned literature clandestinely. Also, such literature.

Etymology
From Russian samizdat, from samo- (self) + izdatelstvo (publishing house), from izdat (to publish). Coined facetiously on the model of Gosizdat (State Publishing House).

Usage
"This remarkable little book (People Power Uli!) includes jokes, text messages, cartoons, and poems of the revolt. It is both funny and a valuable record of samizdat literature and Philippine popular culture." — Alastair Dingwall; Estrada's Fall From Grace; Far Eastern Economic Review (Hong Kong); Jan 17, 2002.

 facetious

(fə-sē'shəs)
adj.
Playfully jocular; humorous: facetious remarks.

[French facétieux, from facétie, jest, from Latin facētia, from facētus, witty.]

facetious 
adjective DISAPPROVING
not serious about a serious subject, in an attempt to be amusing or to appear clever:
facetious remarks
He's just being facetious.

ìì a. ひょうきんな, こっけいな.

faˇceˇtiousˇly　ìì ad.
faˇceˇtiousˇness　ìì n.

jocular 
adjective FORMAL
1 amusing or intended to cause amusement:
a jocular comment

2 describes someone who is happy and likes to make jokes:
Michael was in a very jocular mood at the party.maxim noun [C]
a brief statement of a general truth, principle or rule for behaviour


standpoint 
noun [C]
a set of beliefs and ideas from which opinions and decisions are formed:
"I have to put aside my emotions, " he says, "and consider it from a professional standpoint."