Sentences with phrase «cheap political points by»

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«To label all Muslims who promote and practice Sharia law as extremists is a dangerous precedent which will be strongly opposed by our community because the real reasons behind this new strategy are to score cheap political points on the back of the Muslim community.»

The report is perhaps the antics of mischief makers, who wish to score cheap political points against the Kano State governor, a statement by the president's spokesman, Femi Adesina disclosed.

Dr. Nkpah said: «After a study of the approach, loud pronouncements and long delays adopted by the government on the globally celebrated implementation, the Ogoni people are not persuaded about the sincerity of the President Muhammadu Buhari - led federal government whose earlier promises were designed to score cheap political points.»

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, commenting on the controversial Moreland Commission on anti corruption, which is now under federal investigation, says his opponent is wrongly trying to score «cheap political points» by pressing the issue.

I'm disgusted by Schneiderman supporters using 9/11 to get all sanctimonious and score (or attempt to score) a cheap political point.

Although Ekpo could not respond to the allegation because all calls to him were not responded to, the party's Publicity Secretary in the State, Iniobong Ememobong dismissed the allegation as «a plot by some mischief makers to gain cheap political point».

Just as some described it as a right step in the right direction, others have described it as a sheer attempt by the Buhari - led government to score cheap political points.

Following pledges by all three major parties to reform the Lords at the last general election, the Electoral Reform Society said parliamentarians had «squandered consensus, in the name of cheap point scoring and political games».

We have read a news story with a screaming headline: ACEP AGAINST SECOND KARPOWER published by the media, and after digesting the arguments put forward by the think - tank and noticing the half - truths therein, we firmly conclude, that ACEP is engaging in politics to score cheap political points for the NPP flagbearer, in this election.

; or maybe in a sense we do, but they could be of either the political / social or technological sort; the more the better, but just political / social could work okay (although that would work partly by boosting R&D to continue technological progress, but I'm not sure if that's necessarily breakthroughs (it wouldn't surprise me if someone got a zinc phosphide, CZTS, or pyrite solar cell to work economically at some point in the future, or used light - trapping to make c - Si cheaper and more efficient, or... — it would surprise me if it happenned tomorrow, but...).

The result of the foregoing does not excuse the findings of the Auditor General but do point out the damage that has been done to this publically owned institution that delivers relatively cheap power but has been used as a political football by successive Liberal energy ministers.

We can and should hope that BC's two mainstream parties begin to take global warming seriously, and that this rational approach (instead of parties merely trying to score cheap political points) in dealing with one of the most daunting challenges faced by us all spreads to other jurisdictions.

While it's too early to definitively handicap the electoral impact of a Republican call for carbon taxation (we have, after all, no political data points to go by), it's not too early to handicap the electoral impact of the position forwarded by most of the Republican presidential candidates today: pretending that climate change is an open scientific question while offering cheap fossil fuel as the holy grail of federal policy.