Sentences with phrase «cynical attempts by»

The comments were viewed by senior party figures as a cynical attempt by Farron to distance himself from the leadership ahead of a post-election move for the crown.

«Let's call this push for increased influence in schooling for what it is: a cynical attempt by the church to «stop the rot» and boost its numbers both through the evangelising of children and through the quite shameful practice of requiring parents to sit on pews simply to ensure their children can get a place at a local school.

Labour's Angela Eagle described the plan as a cynical attempt by a government with an overall majority of just 12 to use procedural trickery to manufacture a very much larger one by knocking the SNP out of select votes.

Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif issued a statement criticizing the Democratic agreement, questioning whether it's a cynical attempt by Cuomo and IDC members to ward off primary challenges.

This is a cynical attempt by Labour politicians to brush evidence about underperformance and failure in the Welsh NHS under the carpet.

«This is nothing more than another desperate and cynical attempt by TransCanada to build their dirty pipeline someday if they get a climate denier in the White House in 2017,» said Tiernan Sittenfeld of the League of Conservation Voters.

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Brad Gerstner, CEO of Altimeter Capital, called United's proposal «a cynical attempt to preserve power by this entrenched board,» in a statement on Tuesday.

The «awful» scene of the blood eagle in season two was not a cynical attempt to shock the audience: It was about the character's attempt to enter Valhalla by not showing his pain and suffering.

Square CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey is attempting to get cynical SMEs jazzed about a credit card processing system by getting satisfied entrepreneurs to promote the system to each other......

I am forced to believe that your participation in the program is a cynical move on your part to improve your image in the international community, an image which is constantly marred by your unethical marketing of breastmilk substitutes and other widely publicized immoral acts (ie your recent attempts to exploit the impoverished Ethiopian government).

We are still mulling over what he wrote, but we are struck by how cynical it was for the governor to begin his statement with a long attack on CUNY and an attempt to create a false equivalence between CUNY's problems and the -LSB-...]

We are still mulling over what he wrote, but we are struck by how cynical it was for the governor to begin his statement with a long attack on CUNY and an attempt to create a false equivalence between CUNY's problems and the $ 800m bid rigging scandal centered around SUNY Polytechnic, SUNY Research Foundation, and state controlled non-profits controlled by his administration.

His most cynical and telling move last year was to charter a special state commission to investigate corruption in Albany, vesting it with independent subpoena powers, and then blocking attempts by that very commission to look into donors and activities that led back to his own administration.

But it's not a party at all — it's just a cynical attempt to knock out a huge piece of the progressive infrastructure by stealing votes away from the WFP.»

Did consumers see this as a cynical marketing attempt by Sony to tell their audience «this is cool»?

Rob Astorino's attempt to exploit confusion about the Common Core by creating a «Stop Common Core» ballot line takes brazen, cynical pandering to a new low.

The corporation claims the product is» sweetened by natural sources» and uses the colour green in the livery of the Life cans, the colour universally evocative of health and environmental awareness, in an arguably cynical attempt to associate the product with those same notions of health and well - being.

But what is the hope for democracy when attempts at serious discussion of pressing issues are blocked by cynical parliamentary maneuvers?

Fight for the Future characterized AT&T's move a «cynical attempt at misinformation» and said «zero real Net neutrality supporters are fooled» by the open letter.