Sentences with phrase «as a political force»

A devastating election result has led film critics to stress the importance of cinema as a political force but is it an overly optimistic notion?

It has never achieved sufficient numbers to count as a political force.

What makes us such a success as a political force is also driving our success in areas that have little to do with politics.

NYCLASS emerged as a political force in last year's mayoral race when the group launched a successful independent expenditure against its bête noire, former Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

This came on the heels of Brexit, the U.S. three - ring circus, the reemergence of the far right as a political force throughout Europe — ominous reminders that the rule of law is fragile and under assault.

«He feared the rising tide of Islam as a political force and as a potential force to mobilize against him.»

The practical liberalism of FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society has lately appeared to be moribund as a political force.

Deliberately, I have emphasised the intellectual as well as the political force of neoliberalism, in other words, its energy and its theoretical intransigence, its dynamism that at the moment is not exhausted.

♦ Sylvie Kauffmann writes in the opinion pages of the New York Times about the surprising emergence of Catholicism in France as a political force.

But no longer seen as a political force, the Vatican now exercises more weight in the assemblies of the world than the medieval sovereign ever did.

Burke was well ahead of his time in drawing attention to the importance of precedence as a political force» (S 85f.).

And the rise of libertarianism (small «l») as a political force gave such people an outlet both for running for office and for voting as Libertarians (big «L») instead of Republicans, when they find that Republican party became too attached to Religious Right's social conservatism agenda.

«Should we fail in this effort our credibility as a political force will be brought into question.

Chartism was at its most potent as a political force when it was socially most inclusive.

And that doesn't include an explosion of late advertising funded by last - minute checks from mega-donors like Las Vegas casino owner Sheldon Adelson and Chicago media mogul Fred Eychaner, whose emergence as political forces may be the enduring legacy of 2012.

By the end of the Second World War anarchism as a political force was effectively dead.

Just as time is already running out for Cameron and Clegg, so Miliband's real arrival as a political force may prove closer than we all supposed.

Speaking in west London, former Richmond Lib Dem MP Sarah Olney said that the results show that the Lib Dem's are back as a political force in London.

If it had succeeded, the Labour party would have been extinguished as a political force.

The Blair strategy of the 1990s is defunct because the obvious partner in the centre went into coalition with the Tories and was destroyed as a political force.

Just as important, it began the mobilization of the community as a political force.

The former City trader and Ukip are widely regarded as the political forces which pressured a reluctant Cameron to U-turn and hold the referendum.

New York's GOP, which once fielded such potent vote getters as Al D'Amato and Rudy Giuliani, was eviscerated as a political force by Gov. George Pataki, whose tax - and - spend policies made Republicans indistinguishable from Democrats.

If I am right and this is the end of the LP as a political force in British politics I think it is self inflicted.

Since then, Scottish Labour has been absolutely decimated as a political force in Scotland and its poll ratings ahead of local elections in May are abysmal.

«1199 members are known as a political force, because of their tireless work to elect the candidates who support [our] issues regardless of party affiliation.

I realise that there are powerful figures within the party that would never allow this to happen, not least because they are also culpable but not to do so and to continue denial of illegal war will result in a slow death for Labour as a political force.

Unlike parents and other citizens, who are typically atomized and ineffectual as political forces, most school employees are represented by unions.

By demonstrating our competence as a political force, problem solver and a positive presence in our members lives, the FEA has become a vibrant organization with which members are proud to affiliate and who parents, the district and the town looks to as a partner in advancing our collective goals.

Also in town was the Society of the Cincinnati, an organization of Continental Army officers that some feared as a political force.

While the EU totters in the face of multifaceted crises (Brexit, the possible fragmentation of both the UK and Spain, a prolonged recession and currency crisis, the return of right - wing authoritarianism as a political force, a refugee crisis unparallel since 1945, a militaristic and expansionist Russia..)

Communism has been so thoroughly exposed in this country that it has been crippled as a political force.

Penn plays Milk as a goofy, gay nerd who wins folks over with his sincerity, his passion and his complete lack of self - consciousness and the film focuses less on Milk's triumphs than on his activism, how he shaped a movement and showed gay men and lesbian women all over the country that they could stand up for their rights as a political force.

, the former governor, as a political force, was unhorsed.

I actually suggested this a while back as the best way of absolutely knocking Labour for six and effectively taking them down as a political force, the Lib Dems should work on the centre - left and left while the Tories took over the Centre - right and right of the political spectrum, effectively squeezing Labour until their eyes popped.

Seeking to reassert itself as a political force following a year of internal turmoil, the AFL - CIO is launching a campaign aimed at bringing grassroots pressure to bear on Republicans in 10 statewide races.

But it is not New Labour's successes and failures in government that currently concern me: it is what happens to it as a political force.

Change was sought by engaging those who seemed to lose out in the status quo, to mobilise them as a political force, to seek a more equitable arrangement.