| In Delaware, officeholders had to attest to their belief in the Holy Trinity. |
| The speakers almost always are either outstanding legal minds or high-level officeholders. |
| New London may have proceeded in a bullheaded fashion, and ideally voters can evict officeholders who behave that way. |
| It will take more than the force of ideas to convince most Democratic officeholders to turn against the teachers unions. |
| Nevertheless, incumbent officeholders, candidates, and aspirants are pragmatic to a fault, and their main concern is with winning elections. |
| Cultural elites have been replaced by officeholders and politicos, ambitious men who are part of the village bourgeoisie. |
