Population stabilization advocates of the late 1960s and early 1970s are still derided as prophets of gloom and doom whose claims about environmental degradation and social costs have been “disproven.”
If one side gives up when it has maximum leverage, and the opposition says only that it will keep fighting for its original position, it's more apt to use the term 'surrender' or 'fecklessness.'
No negotiating with those who take constitutional authority hostage
Obama's Pearl Harbor Day press conference: naive, incapable, or disingenuous?
More limits than we wish to know
Don't call tax cuts for wealthy 'compromise'
And then they’ll say we ratified their scheme
Who needs to reassure whom?
NYC student testing scandal: roots and reverberations