Sentences with phrase «effort as a wedge»

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«The governor's approach is actually antithetical to the behind - the - scenes lobbying effort being waged by the gay marriage advocates, who were so concerned the GOP would use this potentially controversial topic as a wedge issue that they all - but refused to talk about it during the 2008 campaign, even as gay money poured into the Democrats» coffers and helped them win the majority.

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

What if there was a way to make just as much money selling something much smaller, with almost no physical effort and no heavy tanks or bulky stands to move around or wedge into customers» vehicles?

In these new works, she instead employs shapes such as spheres, wedges and cubes in an effort to blur the boundaries between subject and object.