Sentences with phrase «campaign rhetoric»

In each election cycle, the tone of campaign rhetoric seems to grow sharper and more personal.

In exchange, the incoming administration could ease up on regulation for businesses and cool campaign rhetoric on imposing tariffs.

For the past year, it certainly seemed like those policies were merely campaign rhetoric, but now they are closer to reality than ever before.

Some see her stance on trade as little more than typical campaign rhetoric.

It is a tired, divisive tactic that enables racist politicians to hide behind campaign rhetoric.

That year, Moskowitz ran on a platform of improving education options and opposing MTA fare hikes, and adopted campaign rhetoric about inequality reminiscent of de Blasio's 2013 bid.

But it turned out it was just empty campaign rhetoric as ever since getting elected Cuomo has done nothing but make excuses for why he will not fund CFE.»

Jews and Christians who are at all reflective about their religious convictions can not help but wince at the vulgar enlistment of those convictions in campaign rhetoric.

While the issue of education may have been largely missing from presidential campaign rhetoric, supplanted by language aimed at calming fears about the economy, many polls suggested it was still a top concern for voters.

KELOWNA — While Premier Clark will certainly drop some of her signature slogans and campaign rhetoric throughout her speech to party faithful today, chances are high she will avoid addressing a number of issues important to British Columbians: Making life...

Almost everything coming out of Fordham (and a great many other DC think - tanks and advocacy groups) feels more like political campaign rhetoric than serious intellectual inquiry.

The moment for change has arrived; and now is the time to discover who is a genuine Hero of Reform and who was just spouting empty campaign rhetoric.

In a break from the usual campaign rhetoric, at the CityLab conference, de Blasio and Lhota praised Bloomberg.

That year, Moskowitz ran on a platform of improving education options and opposing MTA fare hikes, and adopted campaign rhetoric about inequality reminiscent of de Blasio's 2013 bid.

On one side is the liberal intelligentsia, which keeps telling «us» how smart its members are and how dumb the rest of us are — especially those who fall for Republican campaign rhetoric.

National campaign rhetoric commonly projects a view of the federal government as a bureaucratic goliath that determines standards and overrides local control.

His fiery campaign rhetoric earned him a prime speaking slot at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

Advertisements by the pro-HST side, for example, offer up accountants testifying to the job - creating benefits of the harmonized federal - provincial levy over the alternative specified in the referendum question, a reintroduction of the 7 % provincial sales tax — hardly the sort of stirring campaign rhetoric likely to rally a silent majority to its side.

Trump's nativist campaign rhetoric was not wholly new to American political discourse.

In other words, Trump's executive order is a dramatic climb - down from his worst campaign rhetoric.

«There is a difference, and there has always been a difference, between what can be labelled campaign rhetoric and what the government wants to do.

FDR's normal campaign rhetoric was of economic warfare.

Come 2009, when lofty campaign rhetoric encountered the meat - grinder of the legislative process, the realities of governing would naturally come as a shock.

«While a massive reduction in Medicaid spending might make for intriguing campaign rhetoric, I firmly believe that a Governor has the responsibility to pursue real reforms that achieve significant savings without decimating New York's health care system and jeopardizing the lives of Medicaid recipients.»

His appointments already reflect a moderation of his demotic campaign rhetoric, and demonstrate that his actual governing style will likely be measured and cautious.

Davis» early campaign rhetoric suggests he'll largely target Corwin, who will appear on the GOP, Conservative Party and Independence Party ballot lines.

Public Advocate Letitia James said the executive orders «turned his dangerous campaign rhetoric into reality,» but swore that no executive action will change American values — which she said include supporting immigrants and denouncing racism and bigotry.

«This week, from this White House, we have heard the racist dog - whistles of campaign rhetoric morph into the clear and undeniable language of racism,» the letter states.

A new book from Syracuse author Hart Seely finds poetry in the sometimes rambling, often rabble - rousing campaign rhetoric of Republican 2016 front - runner Donald Trump.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner is criticizing campaign rhetoric used during one of last week's state Senate primaries.

NY - 19 candidates John Faso and Zephyr Teachout found few areas of agreement in their first debate of the general election cycle, trading barbs that followed familiar campaign rhetoric thus far.

The Democratic strategists say their research shows those two groups, in particular, are turned off by the GOP presidential nominee's caustic campaign rhetoric and could be persuaded to vote for Democratic candidates in down - ballot races.

This afternoon Melinda Katz celebrated an endorsement by the Uniformed Firefighters Association, but what many people may not have realized was that in fact, her opponent, Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. has been supporting first responders for longer than any of Melinda Katz's exaggerated campaign rhetoric would lead you to believe.

Federal government officials and international representatives she worked with adopted a closed - lip, wait - and - see attitude toward President - elect Donald Trump, whose campaign rhetoric on China, Mexico and other countries was often harsh and incendiary.

It's the kind of caustic, sneering campaign rhetoric that will continue to be a staple of Paladino's «mad as hell» campaign.

Mayor de Blasio's lawyers claim the Bloomberg administration's controversial charter school co-locations were thoroughly planned and proper — an amazing turnaround from de Blasio's campaign rhetoric last year.

As far as national standards, she will easily fudge her position to suit campaign rhetoric.

The discrepancy between campaign rhetoric and legislative change was highlighted by the House's plan on repealing the Affordable Care Act.

Despite the typically bombastic campaign rhetoric by Trump to the contrary, I don't believe bond investors as a group believe the federal government is significantly more likely to default under Trump than it would have been under Clinton.

Often times the starkest differences come to light in campaign rhetoric — when opponents vet one another, whether in debate or in the press.

Scott Stringer doesn't buy, and won't try to match, Eliot Spitzer's campaign rhetoric about how he'd transform the comptroller's office.

Editor's note: Brian T. Kaylor is assistant professor of communication studies at James Madison University and author of «Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in an Age of Confessional Politics.»

In an attempt to clear some of the fog of campaign rhetoric on how economists actually use the R word, and what it really signifies, I called Craig Alexander, the C. D. Howe Institute's vice president, economic analysis.

Malliotakis sought to turn Mayor de Blasio's own campaign rhetoric on him, saying de Blasio's «tale of two cities» is alive but is now a tale of «one city for [de Blasio's] donors and friends and another city for everybody else.»

KELOWNA — While Premier Clark will certainly drop some of her signature slogans and campaign rhetoric throughout her speech to party faithful today, chances are high she will avoid addressing a number of issues important to British Columbians:

US voters love their TV and movie action heroes, and post 9/11 political campaign rhetoric was awash with tropes about killing terrorists.