Sentences with phrase «calculated political move»

Most Conflicted Christmas Miracle That We'll Take Anyway: Vladimir Putin's sudden decision to release the two imprisoned members of the protest art collective Pussy Riot before Christmas — and, more importantly, before the Winter Olympics in Sochi — even though their sentences were almost up anyway and it was a transparently calculated political move

Some gay rights groups viewed the vote as a calculated political move to ensure his election in predominantly Catholic, socially conservative southern Brooklyn.

His decision is in fact a shrewdly calculated political move to avoid Roman intervention.

Not exact matches

Some modern interpreters feel that every move of this uncommonly gifted man was calculated in terms of its political expediency in achieving his own ambitious ends.3 Certainly David was ambitious.

According to him, the decision was a political witch - hunting and a calculated move by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to «at all cost destroy legitimate» businesses being done by Ibrahim Mahama, a brother of the immediate past President of Ghana.

If the world is to move onto a sustainable path, we need economists who will calculate indirect costs and work with political leaders to incorporate them into market prices by restructuring taxes.