None of this is what any politician might regard as heavy lifting.

If it had been used more often, politicians and broadcasters alike would have regarded that as evidence not of the system's success but of its failure.

Most politicians and policy makers still regard the abandonment of anti-drug laws as dangerous apostasy.

Some black politicians regard the redistricting battle as a critical juncture for the blacks in Dallas.

This year, nobody has any idea how politicians or the public will regard the loser.

A traditional politician would have regarded the meager cost savings from the closings as not worth a fight.

But government, business, politicians, the bureaucracy and the unions regard themselves as members of a national economics team, not adversaries.

Even if it did happen, it would necessarily be at the cost of governments' decision-making freedom and of what national politicians regard as priorities.

Many politicians now regard the law as a mistake.

A: In the way many politicians regard the inner-city poor as subhuman.