Sentences with phrase «opportunism does»

«I can tell you, having sat on the opposition benches for the past nine years, that opportunism does not work.»

Tory divisions remain in the memory, Labour opportunism does not: In one sense, comparisons with Maastricht — which Ed Miliband was keen to make — are deeply flawed.

Opportunism doesn't mean thinking small.

Not exact matches

I do not call us pragmatists (for I belong to this group) only because that then connotes a certain opportunism that I deny.

Getting ridiculous on here — not only do we demand transfers but they also have to «picture perfect» and dripping with ambition, with no hint of opportunism and completed on a date that is not too early to smack of desperation nor too late to suggest panic — and ideally we have to take a world class player from a club that doesn't want them to leave.

Your Grace, Even in those post-Peel wilderness years, Derby and Disraeli did get enough short goes in power as to never quite be out for 10 years - with Disraeli often demonstrating what now seems a rather Cameronesque flexibility.They did have one major «legacy» achievement - in the 1867 reform act - if created rather more from political opportunism than any particular principle on the franchise question.

«That's what you can't believe; you can't believe it when somebody has done one thing their entire political life and now, because of opportunism, they want your vote and they're telling you what you want to hear,» Lazio said.

«Nick Herbert rebuts Labour opportunism on police numbers Main The lady wasn't for turning because she didn't try to do too much»

But how do considerations of fairness affect voter responses to government opportunism?

Rodriguez - Kennedy views the ad as political opportunism and said DeMaio does not have a track record of advocating for gay rights.

By standing on this issue alone, and not as a Conservative he will have cross party appeal to all that love liberty and, to be fair, hating them to their miserable yellow core as I do, I have to say well done the the Lib Dems - for once they seem to be putting what principles they have before naked opportunism.

If he does not, that may constitute evidence of hypocrisy or political opportunism.

In the end, as Tony Blair observed about Michael Howard, if you do they anyway sense your opportunism and it is counter-productive.

Having regard to institutional fairness will send the message that the court will not approve a settlement if through misadventure, incompetence, opportunism, lassitude, or fatigue the Representative Plaintiff and Class Counsel do not achieve a settlement that is truly fair, reasonable, and in the best interests of class members.