Sentences with phrase «cunning political»

The revenge he has taken on the shadow Chancellor has confirmed the dark prince's rather exaggerated reputation as a master of the cunning political arts.

It provides unusually cunning political cover but this will eventually be blown away by the experience of the cuts.»

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We also predict that Greece's citizens will resist such impositions with all the cunning they have developed during centuries of foreign occupation and decades of rule by one of the most corrupt political castes in all of Europe.

And so, while being astonished by the character, you are forced to admire the sheer political cunning.

Pastor, the greatest disservice to a country and God is when cunning intellectuals like you use your talents acquired by the funding of ordinary people to lead them astray and take advantage of their hopelessness by preaching utopia, and taking advantage of their reverence to sway their votes for your preferred political party and system.

More broadly, it is not clear how Ms. Teachout, with limited executive and political experience, would be able to get any of her best ideas past the snarling self - interest of the Legislature, which respects only cunning and raw power.

These battles of the books changed political outcomes — mostly because cunning plans backfired.

They, too, must have at least peripheral familiarity with the tale of Machiavellian cunning and political intrigue, if not explicitly using that as a source text for technique and strategy during their respective reigns and rules in offices.

But in outing Haili, he is also provoking her powerful political allies, and he will need to draw on all of his journalistic cunning to come out of this investigation with his career - and his life - still intact.