Sentences with phrase «as a political statement»

The one - house budgets are viewed more as political statements from the two parties than actual policy.

Worse, the statements are being treated as a political statement rather than a carefully considered position based on research.

The one house budgets are viewed more as political statements from the two parties, more than actual policy.

«In the context of the Vietnam War, the possibility of participating in this exhibition at one's own risk can read as a political statement on the nature of the freedom and limitations imposed by the state and (art) institution.»

And it undeniably plays differently in the wake of worker strikes today for «A Day Without Immigrants» and greater divides between the working class and the President of the United States than when the film premiered at Toronto last year (which is not meant as a political statement, just a fact, and not an alternative one).

Artist Tyree Guyton's luridly decorated abandoned houses, the subject of an HBO documentary, started as a political statement and a cry in the wilderness in his withered neighborhood.

The NFL rejected the ad and said the program was not a place for anything that could be viewed as a political statement.

I never started nursing as a political statement.

Hirschhorn previously worked in a group of political graphic artists in 1980s Paris which influenced his use of common materials as a political statement.

Rather than simply documenting these models, the archive stands as a political statement proposing a reformation towards autonomous communal patterns and forms of survival and resistance.

Juxtaposing violence and beauty as a political statement.

Setting aside the near - impossibility of supreme courts contradicting themselves, laws which have been struck down may well remain in the statutes, unenforceable but serving as a political statement.

I wish to apologize for my misguided attempt to mark a moment in history by humour in the courtroom following the surprising result in the United States election... [It] was not intended in any way as a political statement or endorsement of any political views and in particular the views and comments of Donald Trump.

«It's a delay on the original goals that they imposed on themselves of having the treaty done in a few months, but many of us understood that as a political statement rather than something feasible,» said Carlos Vejar, a lawyer at Holland & Knight in Mexico City who was part of the Mexican economy ministry's negotiating team for more than two decades.

According to the guidelines of the League of Women Voters which moderates debates nationwide, submitted questions that read as political statements or allegations will be rephrased by the moderator toward issue - based questions, to allow for appropriate discussion of the underlying topic.

DRAR says the move is «not meant as a political statement».

The inclusion of the two New Yorkers — who chair the policy and communications centers — underlines the reality that all presidential budget proposals are designed more as political statements than an actual realistic budget that the Congress will consider and pass.

More troubling, a few customers, dismayed by what they viewed as a political statement, withdrew their business.

But as a political statement or personal drama, The Ghost Writer is nearly invisible.

It doesn't work on a purely aesthetic level or as a political statement, and the combination of the two goes together about as well as a mid-level Coens comedy and a morality play about racism masquerading as a thesis.

I would assume this was as a political statement.

Manages to be not especially insightful while also being prescient about the future of news as «infotainment», it works a lot better as a tragic romantic comedy that as a political statement.

And talking about uncertainty is viewed as a political statement

For example, Laurie Schram is thinking about money: as a political statement, that is.

It stays on the books and legislators may decide not to repeal it as a political statement.