Analysis of both district-level and aggregate time-series data from postwar House elections supports the thesis that strategic political elites play a pivotal role in translating national conditions into election results and therefore in holding members of Congress collectively accountable for the government's performance. More high-quality candidates run when prospects appear to favor their party; they also win significantly more votes and victories than other candidates in equivalent circumstances. Thus, strategic career decisions both reflect and enhance national partisan tides. The electoral importance of strategic politicians has grown over time in tandem with the trend toward candidate-centered electoral politics. This has rendered the effects of national forces less automatic, more contingent, thus threatening the capacity of elections to enforce some degree of collective responsibility.
An abstract strategy game is a strategy game in which the theme is not important to the experience of playing.Many of the world's classic board games, including chess, Go, checkers and draughts, xiangqi (Chinese chess), shogi (Japanese chess), Reversi (marketed as "Othello"), nine men's morris, and most mancala variants, fit into this category.As J. Mark Thompson wrote in his article "Defining the Abstract", play is sometimes said to resemble a series of puzzles the players pose to each other:1
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Get the Abstract mug.a concept the more simple-minded cannot wrap their arms around without lengthy explanation. a concept that is quite sound, but still is appearing to be "riding the rings of saturn"
a concept thought up by a twisted mind that isn't readily apparent...or by someone who has "blown their mind on LSD" (me) but had a fertile imagination to begin with!
like 'hyper-space' from the ancient video games!!
a concept thought up by a twisted mind that isn't readily apparent...or by someone who has "blown their mind on LSD" (me) but had a fertile imagination to begin with!
like 'hyper-space' from the ancient video games!!
jake flipped me a statement that was so hyper-abstract, i hit him in the head with a ball-peen hammer!!
those 'in the know' at urban dictionary rejected my concept because it was hyper-abstract (or hyper-stupid!)
those 'in the know' at urban dictionary rejected my concept because it was hyper-abstract (or hyper-stupid!)
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A skilless form of "art" in which people carelessly slap shitty brushstrokes and color together in a random fashion. Abstract expressionists would have you believe that there is some sort of deeper meaning to their "paintings" than just a ridiculous decadence of actual art (which there isn't).
People like Jackson Pollock and Hans Hofmann grew rich off of people who have no actual understanding of art through the use of abstract expressionism in their paintings.
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1. Please do not bring that abstract bitch with you to my house because their face upsets the children.
2. I know that Abstract Bitch is not trying to give me tips on taking selfies!
2. I know that Abstract Bitch is not trying to give me tips on taking selfies!
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Dr. Inventive is very abstractional in communicating his vision for new products and we transactional engineers don't know how to translate this into specific tasks as we don't know how to manage the uncertainty of his paradigm challenging approach to creating new products.
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