Sentences with phrase «cudgels in»

That bill would provide tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants and GOP candidates and incumbents have used the issue as a cudgel in battleground election campaigns for the Senate.

Because big, tangible, centralized actors like Google still have offices where they can be found, courts still hold a cudgel in their hands.

Not exact matches

But the encyclical's generalizations and «isolated passages» could too easily furnish partisans with cudgels with which to censure certain books and theologians, to say nothing of any number of merely half - baked ideas that were not mentioned in the encyclical itself.

Walcott is a great player but is unproven at the tip of the spear and may never be able to take up that cudgel due to either injury or ability, Giroud is a wonderful player but is far too inconsistent to do the clinical job we require and Im really sorry but Wellbeck will Never ever be that player in my opinion.

When Liverpool were smashing through European strongholds in the Champions League, taking a cudgel (and sometimes a Craig Bellamy golf club) from Milan to Barcelona, Rafa Benitez barely raised any eyebrow, as if any sense of public emotion would sabotage his carefully calculated tactical master plan.

They wield the phrase «babies die in hospital, too» like a cudgel, transforming their profound disappointment in the fact that hospitals can't yet save all babies into a bizarre conspiracy that hospitals are actually killing babies with «interventions.»

What I think Nigerians must cudgel themselves with is how the likes of this strange character emerge to have seats in what is supposed to be reserved for the most accomplished, responsible and patriotic senior citizens whose wealth of experience the country requires to change the conditions of the ordinary people.

Schneiderman's campaign has made choice a signature focus, using it as a cudgel with which to smash his GOP / Conservative opponent, Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who is personally pro-life, but insists he won't actively seek to change state law in this arena the way attorneys general have done in other states.

Geoff Berman, executive director of the state Democratic Party that is essentially controlled by Cuomo, used Saturday's vote as a cudgel against his fellow liberals in the WFP.

But Mr. Flanagan's remarks seemed to do little to quell the questions around the stipend deal, which Senate Democrats have seized on as a powerful cudgel to attack the Republicans and their partners in the Independent Democratic Conference, an eight - member breakaway group that helps the G.O.P. maintain leadership in the Senate.

In that vein, the Boehner memo sought to highlight the ongoing ethics questions surrounding New York Rep. Charlie Rangel — evidence that Republicans will seek to use Rangel's problems as a cudgel against House Democrats in the coming monthIn that vein, the Boehner memo sought to highlight the ongoing ethics questions surrounding New York Rep. Charlie Rangel — evidence that Republicans will seek to use Rangel's problems as a cudgel against House Democrats in the coming monthin the coming months.

Yet the debate has broadened in recent years with more mainstream groups taking up the cudgels.

Demographic quotas for charters in the name of equity are the latest policy cudgel of choice pushed by teachers union bosses in states all over the country.

The waiver expresses confidence that the same philosophy — paying attention to data but using it as a basis to improve, not as a cudgel to declare failure — would work in California.»

So there is potentially a real case to be made that the major publishers, whether in collusion with or coercion from Amazon, Apple, and others, kept independent booksellers from selling ebooks, and used DRM protection as a cudgel with which to do it.

The Bazelgeuse flew off and the Deviljho turned its focus to the newest monster, grabbing it in its jaws to use as a makeshift cudgel against us.

Which is why the transformation of the Tate franchise in recent years into a cudgel of human improvement has been so noticeable.

Zyk, Abakanowicz's colossal cudgel of a sculpture, is defined by the implied violence of its battering ram / unlit - torch form, which works in tandem with the raw and rugged natural materials of a felled tree trunk, steel and burlap.

In the hands of the ecomodernists, optimism isn't used as a torch to light the way forward, but rather as a cudgel with which to beat intellectual opponents into submission — because, especially in the United States, to be less than optimistic is to be, in a way, un-AmericaIn the hands of the ecomodernists, optimism isn't used as a torch to light the way forward, but rather as a cudgel with which to beat intellectual opponents into submission — because, especially in the United States, to be less than optimistic is to be, in a way, un-Americain the United States, to be less than optimistic is to be, in a way, un-Americain a way, un-American.

This leads to what Jonathan Rauch, a contributing editor at this magazine, calls the «offendedness sweepstakes,» in which opposing parties use claims of offense as cudgels.

But climate hawks are equally invested in the notion that China is racing ahead, since that serves as a cudgel with which to attack conservatives.

You appear to be well motivated, but verbally cudgeling folks with your views is not a way to succeed in getting them accepted.

I'd like to end with that, but before we get to that, we have a political climate right now that is toxic to, in many ways, talking about social justice and bandies about political correctness like a cudgel.

Subsequently, Advocate General Maduro in his Opinion of January 2008 took up the cudgels for the autonomy of the Union legal order and for the effective protection of fundamental rights.

Anand believes in developing the next generation of criminal lawyers to assume the mantle of counsel and take up the cudgels to preserve due process.

The result, these experts say, is tantamount to a nuclear weapons standoff: Companies with formidable patent portfolios can use them as cudgels against rivals, while those with fewer patents risk being eaten alive in court.