Sentences with phrase «while political games»

«It is deeply concerning that while these political games are played out, little thought is given to the devastating impact that today's sweeping statements have on the children and young people, the hardworking and dedicated staff in these schools, and the parents and local communities.

«While that political game plays out at our nation's Capitol, we thought we would stick to where we are right now to catch our breath.»

«While that political game plays out at our nation's capitol, we thought we would stick to where we are right now to catch our breath.»

Not exact matches

It also exposes the fact that when it comes to the national game not only are our political masters grossly unfair, favouring some clubs while penalising the vast majority, but there is also a huge question of whether football has lost its moral compass.

He's going to use NY as a political football, doing cosmetic changes to show he's a tough fiscal manager while being careful not to offend the unions too much, make - nice with the environmentalists, and generally use the Pataki game plan for setting the national stage.

In a tweet, IDC spokeswoman Candice Giove wrote, «While the @NYSenDems continue to play political games, the @IDC4NY continues to fight for #raisetheage.»

Looking back to Venezuela's reality of the 1990s, when AD and COPEI closed the ways for new leaders while launching candidates that had been in the game for decades, reminds us that a rigid political system may induce voters to choose outsider candidates.

Instead, political parties are forced to play a longer game while shrewd politicians begin to stock up on integrity for the inevitable moments when their judgement goes astray.

Maziarz, one of the top members of the Republican Senate, stunned the local and state political world when he announced in 2012 while at the top of his game that he would not run for re-election.

While one may not be able to vouch for the President Muhammadu Buhari administration's total aversion for political expeditions and conquests, Obiano has proved to be a deft politician who knows how to play his game.

While representing President Buhari at the launching of the revised National Counter Terrorism Strategy (NACTEST), Professor Osinbajo repeated the blame - games, the feature of the administration by claiming that the escalation of war on terror was the handiwork of corrupt military officers and political leaders in the previous administration.

«While some members of Congress are content to play political games at the expense of their constituents, I'm proud to join members of the New York Congressional Delegation in support of this legislation, which provides much - needed property tax relief while protecting New York's healthcare system,» Cuomo While some members of Congress are content to play political games at the expense of their constituents, I'm proud to join members of the New York Congressional Delegation in support of this legislation, which provides much - needed property tax relief while protecting New York's healthcare system,» Cuomo while protecting New York's healthcare system,» Cuomo said.

Talk is cheap, especially when it's hot air, so while partisan Democrats play political games in Albany, Senator Funke will be busy standing up for Monroe and Ontario counties.»

Maziarz, a senior member of the Senate's GOP hierarchy, stunned the local and state political world in 2014 when he announced he would not seek re-election while at the top of his game.

While those serving on the committees have the power to select winners and losers in the race for grants, the real power to direct research is political and is wielded by the bureaucrats who create the programmes, allocate budgets, appoint the committees and impose the rules of the funding game.

Although there are some gameplay moments if gamers aren't especially careful with expenditures early in the game when some dark clouds of boredom while waiting for some moola to multiply in the national vaults can rain on a sunny day of tropical island ruling, those who enjoy SimCity or Civilization - style resource management gameplay with a heavy dose of political behind - closed - doors wheeling and dealing will enjoy an excursion to Tropico in its latest rendition.

Although the various conflicts are efficiently played out in Brian Rudnick's script and director Alex Ranarivelo employs some astute period touches while garnering game performances from his cast, it's ultimately the parallels with the current socio - political climate that obviously resonate.

While co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine) wring tension and suspense from the same - day build - up to the match, the match itself — captured by grainy, fuzzy TV cameras with the occasional, ground - level insert — and the immediate aftermath (symbolic and figurative, more than real or long - lasting), it's in the months - long lead - up to the match, following Billie Jean King (Emma Stone, never better) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) where Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

While the ethics of using human beings as pawns in political games is the central theme of the story, the execution is less than astute.

Brown (Under a Flaming Sky, 2006) takes enough time to profile the principals in this story while using the 1936 games and Hitler's heavy financial and political investment in them to pull the narrative along.

While I can't say it's one of the best games I've played all year it's certainly going to find an appreciative audience who love its theme and political bickering, provided of course that said audience is not made up of people who hold grudges because New Angeles has the potential to break up more families than Monopoly.

While Final Fantasy VII and Square's subsequent games were an assertion of the value of developing and designing a game with a story at the center of the experience, and using that story to assert ideas about politics economics, and philosophy, Dragon Quarter was a statement in return that similarly intelligent engagements of political ideas could be built into games of minimal narrative that still focused primarily on gamers» engagement with mechanics.

The game lets you experience today's social and political upheavals while learning that you can shape reality itself through sheer force of belief.

Levine's last game, you see, used high - end literature as source material and immersed players in a world that posed political, philosophical and social questions, while bombarding the player with bullets and boss battles.

On the first floor, Ceal Floyer's wall of speakers blaring the engaged signal of a failed telephone call, Line Busy (UK)(2011), is both a minimal work of art and a note of restrained humour; Cory Arcangel's hacked computer game screens, MIG 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds (2005), could be either political statement or benign dreamscape; while Allora & Calzadilla's Solar Catastrophe (2012) is a hard - edged abstraction made from solar panels, as well as an ironic admission of the wreckage left behind by this renewable energy source.

Perfect for playing drinking games in style while watching this week's political festivities.

While the talking proceeds, governments that are new to the nuclear game are concluding that they may have to build their own fuel supply systems that are less dependent on suppliers with their own political agendas.

While the AGW debate is real, CAGW is a complex shell game; it's been propagandized as a distraction to unite citizens behind a concept, the goal is political empowerment, ultimately global fascism for many elites on the Left who are yanking the reigns.

«While a lot of games contain very sophisticated political and social critiques, politicians are only now becoming aware of how people are engaging with these mediums,» he said.

While many decry reforms like these — especially the one relating to banks — as nothing more than Washington, D.C., political game - playing and Wall Street favors, each in its own right highlights the larger problem with business method patents: instead of spurring innovation (as the patent system is intended to do), they often harm businesses by imposing additional costs (in the form of licenses or litigation), which in turn harms the consumer, as well as the economy at large.

A brief foray into the cultural realm will demonstrate how the unpleasant emotion of fear can be turned into the excitement of horror movies, gothic literature, and thrill - seeking games while, on the negative side of things, forming a part of ethno - racial prejudice and political oppression.

It's Part of a Political Game — while the Labor Party voted against the Preamble in Parliament, they will not campaign against it.

So while the Ontario and Federal governments play a dangerous game of economic Russian roulette and await their political fate, homebuyers may be finding their homownership dream more distant than ever.