Indeed, the President's remarks reinforce what many financial market experts have begun to suspect -that the central bank and the White House agree on far more than they disagree about.

Mr. Brown's remarks reinforced the sense, widely held among Democrats, that Mr. Brown wants to hold the 1992 gathering in New York, the site of their 1976 and 1980 conventions.

But his remarks reinforced previous arguments by the police that modern terrorism inquiries need much more time, to permit the police to carry out complicated investigations that require advanced code-breaking and language skills across international frontiers.

The remark reinforced suspicions among some farmers that the government was seeking to shift part of the blame to questionable farming practices.

His negative remarks on Cameron vetoing the proposals by Sarkozy and Merkel simply reinforces the point that he's dangerously naive and/or stupid.

Still, Mr. Olmert's remarks reinforced the belief that he wants to relinquish additional Jewish settlements in the West Bank and would do so unilaterally.

His thoughtless remarks reinforce the erroneous suspicion that conservatives are racists.

Mr. Tang's remarks today reinforced reports circulating in Beijing that the Communist leadership has abandoned the military option and has returned to using the carrot.

Though Mr. Thomas declined to be specific about his own ideas, his remarks reinforced a view of other House Republican leaders that overhauling the tax code is a more compelling issue than Social Security.

Yet Mr. Greenspan's remarks reinforce a worry I've had for the past few months: that Fed officials will respond to continuing economic weakness not with action but with excuses.