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All in all, President Obama's well-intentioned efforts to jump-start the peace process have backfired, not so much because he favors one side over the other, but because of the ham-handedness of his negotiation strategy.
Alan Dershowitz: President Obama Has Right Goals on Israeli-Palestinian peace, But Wrong Strategy Alan Dershowitz 2011
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Unlike SOPA, however, which reveled in its own ham-handedness, ACTA is a more complex creature.
Edward J. Black: Keeping SOPA Measures Out of Trade Agreements ACTA, TPP Edward J. Black 2012
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With its abandonment of Calvert Cliffs III, Constellation has also reaffirmed its well-deserved reputation for political ham-handedness.
Constellation's fallout with French firm unfortunately the new business as usual Steven Pearlstein 2010
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In that spirit, China's new Confucius Peace Prize is especially revealing in its ham-handedness.
China Putin 2011
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Unlike SOPA, however, which reveled in its own ham-handedness, ACTA is a more complex creature.
Edward J. Black: Keeping SOPA Measures Out of Trade Agreements ACTA, TPP Edward J. Black 2012
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All in all, President Obama's well-intentioned efforts to jump-start the peace process have backfired, not so much because he favors one side over the other, but because of the ham-handedness of his negotiation strategy.
Alan Dershowitz: President Obama Has Right Goals on Israeli-Palestinian peace, But Wrong Strategy Alan Dershowitz 2011
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Still, the Romanoff revelation has shined a spotlight on what even former Obama campaign officials say is ham-handedness on the part of a team once considered to be smooth political operators.
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They expected the worst and, in their ignorance or ham-handedness, often provoked the natives into fulfilling their expectations.
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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They expected the worst and, in their ignorance or ham-handedness, often provoked the natives into fulfilling their expectations.
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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The one recent effort by the President to pressure Congress to move forward with jobs-related spending came in a letter sent on a Saturday evening that was met with derision on the Hill for its ham-handedness.
Mayberry Machiavellis: Obama Political Team Handcuffing Recovery 2010
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