Sentences with phrase «alternative political point»

It's just an alternative political point of view.

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Germany held regional elections in three states this week and for political analysts the major talking point was the success of the far - right, anti-immigration party the Alternative for Germany, known as the AfD.

They are therefore acting, while the government retains relatively strong public support, to try to eliminate any points within the party leadership or structures — no matter how seemingly insignificant at this moment in time — around which opposition could coalesce into an alternative political perspective within the party.

CSEA has offered the governor numerous alternatives to save even more money but the governor is only interested in ideas that inflict pain on the work force to make a political point.

Political leaders can be crucial in showing people different paths and alternatives to violent confrontation, the researchers point out.

Such political pressures might be addressed by establishing alternative examinations or by setting multiple cut points on one examination.

The problem with this «end justifies the means» argument — where the means involved is the abhorrent use of a pejorative descriptor to devalue the arguers of alternative points of view rather than their arguments at the political and social level — is that it is as close to absolute evil in social and public discourse as it is possible to get.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»