Sentences with phrase «about scoring political»
It is about scoring political points on something that has no hope of actually making a difference in the real world.
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Michael Barbaro of the New York Times, for instance, had this to say about Trump's social marketing via Twitter: «Mr. Trump has mastered Twitter in a way no candidate for president ever has, unleashing and redefining its power as a tool of political promotion, distraction, score - settling and attack — and turning a 140 - character task that other candidates farm out to young staff members into a centerpiece of his campaign.»
Today much of our debate about marriage comes from a similar hope to score political points.
I'm talking about something more fundamental: YouCut is dishonest, the cynical act of a leadership that's put the scoring of short - term political points ahead of developing a coherent plan to govern.
Dr. Nkpah said: «After a study of the approach, loud pronouncements and long delays adopted by the government on the globally celebrated implementation, the Ogoni people are not persuaded about the sincerity of the President Muhammadu Buhari - led federal government whose earlier promises were designed to score cheap political points.»
Without explaining his reasons for that score, a grudging Agyinasare, who attempted fighting off the question to escape political tagging, told Bola Ray on Starr Chat on Wednesday that: ``... I'd give him about seven [on a scale of one to 10].»
The NDC's General Secretary who's not enthused about Nana Addo's claims described the NPP's address as merely a propaganda exercise to score cheap political points.
In a statement, he assailed «Mr. DiNapoli and his surrogates (for trying) to score political points by making irresponsible and erroneous accusations about my future investment strategies for the state pension fund.
«I take your point about the inherent fun of party political point scoring, especially if the party I adhere to has scored the point, but it is essentially trivial by nature and, if endlessly repeated, deeply dispiriting and, for the majority of the public who aren't blindly loyal party tribalists, ultimately alienating.»
The shadow business secretary said he would not engage in political point scoring about Liberal Democrat U-turns.
Loosely (extremely loosely), the media is hugely left - wing (leaving aside the point I agree with that left / right is a highly imprecise and largely meaningful term); and therefore anything the media says about the right - including calling Nazism «right» - is aimed not at some universal truth but at scoring political points against their opponents.
A sense that Westminster has become so much about point - scoring, positioning and political dividing - lines that people and their real - life problems are completely left out.
Moralising about how easy it is to see sexually explicit images online might score political points, but there is a better route to policy
A debate rages on whether President Reagan did or didn't have Alzheimer's disease during his time in office.With what we have learned in the last decade about the disease, the question is relatively meaningless, except perhaps to score political points.The simple answer: of course he did.The newest technology — consisting of imaging and spinal taps — shows that the disease process begins its relentless course as many as 15 years before a firm diagnosis.
Naomi Watts and Sean Penn star in Fair Game, the latest film about Iraq — and the third so far to have been scored by John Powell, though this one is largely to do with political rather than military matters.
Egypt, Tunisia and Libya have in time scored very well on MDGs figures when it comes to education, but on the other side, the political climate of fear and lack of accountability ended up siphoning opportunities that the young people, with formal education and skills could have benefited from but Mo - Ibrahim - Foundation (November, 2012) is worthing thinking about; -
«Urge school and political leaders to make sure they are analyzing gains, not just raw scores,» Shearon said, «then forget about the scores!
Rather than provide the best means for confronting «difficult truths about the inequality of America's political economy,» such a pedagogy produces the swindle of «blaming inequalities on individuals and groups with low test scores.»
Just as we should be humble about using test scores to identify quality schools, we should be humble about knowing the ideal political or regulatory strategy.
Research findings, anecdotes, and test scores can inform the debate about whether a particular school reform has worked or not worked, or whether it is a «good» approach or a «bad» one, but the decision to continue or abandon that approach will always be political in nature.
The claims about religious extremism were driven by «the settling of political scores» and disgruntled former staff, the trust argues.
If you read up on New York you'll find stories of adjustments and political back - and - forth about the tests, the scores, pass rates and cutoffs, etc..
There's plenty of room for argument over what to do about climate change, but cheap political point scoring of the «you didn't vote for the ETS so you don't want action on climate change» is not helpful.
Indeed we're more likely to establish good quality data if people accept it's actually going to be used for something, as opposed to just scoring points in a political shouting match which is more about justifying climate alarm than it is about informing policy.
Because when Judith wrote a post about Kahan's study, she skipped right over the main finding of the study (that views on climate change are associated with political ideology / world view), and wrote about the relatively insignificant finding from the study — that «skeptics» tended to score slightly higher on an assessment of «scientific literacy.»
The world's first feature - length musical about political philosophy will showcase a script steeped in drama, humour and romance — with a musical score that covers everything from rap battles to power ballads.