Sentences with phrase «about political agendas»

Data as a hammer is about political agendas, it's not about getting to better for kids.

I don't care about your title, I don't care about your ego, I don't care about your office, and I don't care about your political agenda.

They may not have known about the political agenda when they were inveigled into participating, but they had to know when the 1995 SPM was published because Benjamin Santer exploited the SPM bias by rewriting Chapter 8 of the 1995 Report in contradiction to what the members of his chapter team had agreed.

Part of that is about profits and part of it is about a political agenda.

Not exact matches

Corporate tax avoidance has risen to the top of the political agenda in Britain in recent years, following revelations about the complex tax structures used by big companies like Starbucks and Google.

«This is nothing political,» Pollack said about the gathering and the parallel agendas of those who turned out.

This is an excellent example of I was talking about when I mentioned political violence, which is a shared agenda between fundamentalists of any religion.

People get very very worked up about religious and political agendas.

But the beautiful thing about it, in terms of the «Party Party,» is because we don't have a specific political agenda, we get to contribute to the political atmosphere in a non-political way by making it partier — by improving our attitudes.

Sabio: Are you saying that the biblical writers wrote what they did only out of political or social agendas without any sincere attempt to talk about what they called God?

Absent from either argument is any question about whether the bishops ought to have an explicit political agenda at all.

Going back to the major political contests of 2009, beginning with the Governors» races in Virginia and New Jersey and to the Senate race in Massachusetts, the electorate has been asked the same question about Obama's agenda and has given the same response.

Many of those during conventions even told me privately that they don't really believe anymore, and that it was about furthering political agendas, «to get many folks to think the way we think» so that we may establish a true Christian Nation with BIBLICAL LAWS.

I have noticed lately that the political left, which most supports health care rationing (and which, ironically, yells the loudest about HMO care restrictions), argues disingenuously for the agenda through the time - tested tactic of blatant misdirection.

Every abortion practitioner knows that the overwhelming majority of abortions are carried out on social grounds andthe abortion lobby is unapologetic about its belief that abortion should be available «on demand and without apology», yet it uses rape survivors as an emotive smokescreen to cover its unsavoury agendas and exploits their suffering for political and ideological gain.

The company also claims to beat Hellmann's in taste tests; and Tetrick's overt political agenda — he recently penned an open letter to the 2016 presidential candidates about the food system — makes purchasing mayonnaise a lot more interesting than selecting sandwich spreads in decades past.

Their book provides careful and accurate if not cautious recommendations about infants and their caregivers that closely follow more balanced scientific findings and not simply, those that support their own personal philosophies or political agendas, a description accurately applied to more traditional medical authoritative associations.

The issue is taken off of the political agenda for a substantial period of time, allowing decisions to be made at the national level without being unsettled by constant doubts about Scotland's continuing membership of the Union.

Make no mistake about it, it is merely the mechanism used by schisters and con - artists to push their political agenda.

But what was revelatory about the Queen's Speech was what it didn't mention: it wholly ignored the seismic political shifts and horrific events which have brought renewed public engagement in politics and staunch opposition to an ideologically - driven political agenda of austerity and deregulation.

He talks about leveraging that power to drive a progressive agenda, from getting big business out of political lobbying to reining in «imperial CEOs.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio is asked about his ties to several controversial nonprofit groups that were set up to promote his political agenda, he often points to the city's Conflicts of Interest Board.

It is argued that the challenge is not just about Labour winning elections again, but that any political victory must be worth having, based on clear differences from a Tory agenda.

When New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is asked about his ties to several controversial nonprofit groups that were set up to promote his political agenda, he often points to the city's Conflicts of Interest Board.

Judging by the programme of the Conservative government, these issues will dominate the political agenda in the next five years and Labour should have something to say about them.

But then there are the accelerationists - political pyromaniacs whose agenda is chaos from which they may profit, a kind of «disaster socialism» to mirror the disaster capitalism Naomi Klein wrote about in The Shock Doctrine.

But in the end politics is about national interest, not personal political agendas.

With energy policy dominating the political agenda, it will be a breath of fresh air to hear from someone who knows what they're talking about.

It however has been high on the political agenda in recent decades, with continuing debates about when the technology should be phased out.

«In an era when our nation is increasingly concerned about the spread of fake news, it is unacceptable that a media conglomerate like Sinclair would force our trusted local news anchors to push a one - sided political agenda, valuing partisan politics over informing the American public,» Rhodes said.

McDiarmid, who also starred in Spooks, Sleepy Hollow and last year's blockbuster The Lost City of Z, has pointed to the parallels between 1968 and now with concerns about immigration high on the political agenda.

After two months in which Ed Miliband's focus on cost - of - living issues has dominated the political agenda, the Tories have finally managed to get us to talk about something else instead.

The Campaign For One New York, the 501 (c)(4) group de Blasio started to advance his political agenda at the start of his mayoralty, is refusing to comply with a subpoena sent in recent weeks by JCOPE seeking information about the group's donors.

He is doing nothing to counter the lies and misinformation being put out by the government and is in fact exacerbating them, either to suit whatever scheming, bizarre proto - Marxist political agenda he has dreamed up with Seumas Milne, or simply because he's an idiot and doesn't know what he's talking about.

It is a testament to the rough rollout of the Common Core agenda in New York, and perhaps even more so to the poor marketing of it, that there should be such unanimity of political opinion about it.

Lawyers for the Campaign for One New York, the defunct nonprofit that backed NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's political agenda, will comply with a broad new subpoena from JCOPE seeking information about the nonprofit's donors and activities, the mayor said.

However, Mr Prescott dismissed the claims as «press prattle on a political agenda», telling BBC One's Politics Show: «Yes of course I am satisfied with it [the inquiry], as much as I know about it.

Hein was about a month behind the curve on this one, rare for a political leader who usually sets the agenda.

Buhari's policy of using his own ethnic people as heads of security (agencies) of Nigeria and not talking about it means that he has a political agenda.

Answering a question from ITV News Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship the Prime Minister said «I think the Conservative party is delighted that we've got a renegotiation reform and referendum agenda, there's complete unity about that.»

The polling is about public attitudes to tax, an issue firmly back on the political agenda after a rethink by the Conservative Party.

«The governor has the money for the things that help his political agenda and his millionaire friends, but he just doesn't give a fig about working people.»

This is about something that's a lot larger than their own personal political agendas.

The Tories would say that our much - repeated line that the NHS is «not safe in their hands» became an accepted truth after the Labour spin - machine kept on repeating it (there is a «grid» where party political machines try to control the daily news agenda, which naturally can have the effect of making broadcasters want to talk about anything but the parties» news agenda).

Rather than do what New York City now does, which is to set its educational policy by a political agenda, the commission could look at the research about what really works in schools»

«What has become clear through this heavily litigated process is that listing the polar bear as a threatened species is not about protecting the polar bear but rather advancing a particular political agenda,» Sen. James Inhofe (R — Okla.) said in a statement.

Sargent warns that mistakes will become increasingly crucial as issues about occupational health and safety, environmental protection and international trading standards creep up the political and social agenda.

In some cases the conflict between the role of science and traditional knowledge has been difficult to resolve, and there is a worry that discourse about adaptation may be used selectively by powerful stakeholders to advance particular pathways and political agendas.»

Rooney Mara: I think one of great things about the film is that it's not a political film, it's not a film with an agenda, it's not preaching to the audience.

If this implies to you that the movie has anything resembling a political agenda about the billions of dollars our country wastes on nuclear weapons, think again; if anything this movie, like so many other American romps, leaves us with the impression that American nuclear weapons are essential to our well - being, for where would American action thrillers be without them?