Sentences with phrase «as a political weapon»

The exceptional cases are when religion has not been used as a political weapon.

It has been an unprecedented election, with the introduction of hacking as a political weapon being just one of the reasons why.

«There are a lot of Christians who are using their faith as a political weapon»... insert hypocrite for Christian and that would be a more correct statement.

American energy abundance also strengthens our ability to export oil and natural gas to our allies, enhancing their security by lessening dependence on nations that use energy as a political weapon.

Economists and investors worry if there is a trade war, China could reduce its U.S. debt holdings as a political weapon against the Trump administration tariffs proposal.

Marx's critique of religion was replaced by the eighteenth century popular critique of religion, clergy, and church, evidently because it was more effective as a political weapon.

Similarly, people like the author of this article will pick apart single verses in the Bible as a political weapon — it goes both ways.

Bipartisanship as a political weapon, and the Republican counter - «strategy.»

Gossip, rumour and innuendo were definitely deployed by the Lib Dems as political weapons.

«The Ethics Committee is using their so - called ethics as a political weapon,» McLaughlin said.

Despite Gordon Brown's infamous attempt to use the threat of an election as a political weapon to destabilise the Conservatives in September 2007 (which backfired badly), a fixed - term Parliament was also shoe - horned into Labour's recent manifesto.

Wade accused Ahearn of using the grand jury as a political weapon, and he criticized the Times Union for pursuing the story.

The Turkish government is persecuting academics, using the court system as a political weapon, according to a report issued today by the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (IHRN) based in Washington, D.C.

Let us not forget our leadership's support for the Danielson Framework which has been utilized as a political weapon to control teacher pedagogy, execute vendettas, and terminate senior teachers to cut pension costs.

With Dora Garcia, she co curates I was a Male Yvonne de Carlo, an exhibition about comedy and satyre as political weapons for the MUSAC, in Castilla de Léon, Spain, June 2011 - january2012.

Post-Trump and post - #metoo, where digital culture has both exposed and produced polarizing inequalities, can Lorde's vocabulary of self - preservation help us reconnect with our bodies as a political weapon?

The same can not be said of the challenges on the left: an unyielding desire to tie everything to bigger government, and a willingness to use race and class as political weapons in order to pursue that desire.

She attacked the use of energy as a political weapon, echoing Europe's worries after repeated spats between Russia and gas transit country Ukraine hit EU supplies in recent years.

Those regressive distributional impacts have been used as a political weapon against virtually every energy tax ever proposed.

It's now clear to me that, while the belief persisted for many reasons (including the way faith is used as a political weapon), a major reason was that media, racists, and liberal elites alike tend to treat African American Christianity as a cultural, not a theological, phenomenon.

Not among those who use «religious faith» as a political weapon and sanctimoniously refer to themselves as the moral ones and the rest of us who do not agree with their ignorant and distorted view of things as immoral.

As one of these women said: «There are a lot of Christians who are using their faith as a political weapon, which it's never meant to be.»

«How we can grab so much money and now use it as political weapon to perpetuate and be kingmakers.

He accused the party he foundered of amassing so much wealth so as to use it as a political weapon to «perpetuate and be kingmakers.»

Even as they used it as a political weapon.

Unpleasant music has long been used during interrogations or as a political weapon, but now it could be tailored automatically to the individual's psychophysical reactions.

They wield it as a political weapon rather than a genuine scientific instrument.