Sentences with phrase «entrenched political»

They go on: «In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended the «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» [Wylie] recounted.»

To Metropolus, this means interest groups aligned against nuclear power (which is Sierra Club California's official position) should heed the Areva agreement as something to be taken seriously, despite the entrenched political reality.

Given the entrenched political power of the nuclear industry — as reflected in the Obama administration's continued support for huge subsidies for new nuclear, Fukushima be damned — it is possible that one or two new nuclear power plants may be built in the USA in the next decade or so.

Unfortunately, judging by the polarized and entrenched political discourse that prevails in the climate debate, from all sides, few seem to be buying it.

Maryland, which is a poster child for corruption, would be far better governed if the power was taken out of the hands of entrenched political interests, and given back to the people.

«You've got entrenched political interests protecting the status quo and a worsening fiscal situation.

They took on meaningful struggles against entrenched political interests whose agendas conflicted with the educational needs of children.

Still, «The Journey» feels timely, with its story of entrenched political foes finding common ground.

William Holden is the crusading newspaperman who attempts to help O'Brien, but even his efforts are compromised by deeply entrenched political corruption.

Gallo, himself a Democrat who won in 2011 in defiance of the committee's anointed candidate, has long accused the committee of serving entrenched political interests and trying to undermine his administration.

In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.

The ad hits it perfectly... an idea most people support that makes huge ecomonic sense is being stopped by big money and entrenched political interests... what a shock!!!

«I want to be Staten Island's Borough President because I understand how to use the position to advocate for Staten Island in a way that the entrenched political machinery has not been willing or able to do for the past 30 years.»

«I had this 29 - year - old political unknown who was introducing herself as willing to challenge an entrenched political incumbent,» recalled Ray Scollin, chairman of the Franklin County Republican Party, who found Stefanik on Twitter before meeting her in a Saranac Lake coffee shop last year.

«The nexus of big money, lack of enforcement, and some unscrupulous elected officials has entrenched a political system constantly beset by scandal.

First, these countries have produced highly entrenched political elites.

«While my heart beckons me forward, my head tells me my continued presence on the Conservative line would simply lead to the election of Andrew Cuomo, and the continuation of an entrenched political machine,» Lazio said.

this is the religion that supports and sustains firmly entrenched political power.

In contrast, decisions of legislatures and executive officials can be reversed by majority vote — a much easier process, notwithstanding inertia and entrenched political interests.

In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.

That in turn increases barriers to entry for startups, because entrenched political players look to «economic winners» for support to stay in power, argues Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at the public policy think tank New America.

Trump ran largely on the argument that his business background made him an outsider from an entrenched political class and would lead to him negotiate good deals for the American people.

The storm's elements include deeply entrenched political and religious differences in the Middle East, a hotly contested and coveted new global market, and a high - voltage movie star.

Both Attlee and Thatcher realised that entrenching political change depends on converting your opponents.

Not exact matches

In tandem with declining entrepreneurship, the U.S. has moved from a dynamic political system that supports pluralism to one that's fixed and supports entrenched interests.

That's all the more true for Liberals who are too old, or too entrenched in their family lives, to move back to Ottawa to become political staffers again.

He sees Wall Street bankers now entrenched as the new American oligarchy, subtle but surprisingly brazen in their manipulation of political actors and the levers of government power.

Martinelli's massive personal wealth, the campaign sales pitch went, made him the only outsider immune to influence and able to dismantle an entrenched and corrupt political establishment.

The unlikely local Congressional primary race between an entrenched Democratic star and a political neophyte has turned ugly in a hurry.

The government's ability to entrench prudent macroeconomic policies should improve further as the end of the political crisis comes closer.

By tapping into a political issue that is more accessible, Jones can persuade and entrench his followers.

James Nuechterlein portrays the debate within the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod as a political dispute: this is a struggle for power between moderates and «entrenched» hard - line ultraconservatives.

It is generally recognized that many blows struck against the pulpit come not because of its peculiar faults but because it is a part of a traditional and entrenched institution, and all such institutions, religious, political, or otherwise, are being called into question.

When a social group or political party embraces a position and maintains its commitment to it beyond a threshold of faddishness, when a cause becomes permanently entrenched within a group's self - understanding, a likely explanation turns to moral and philosophical grounds, not an embrace born and preserved out of expediency.

We all are appalled at what we see, but we tend to think of these people as «they're just crazies» and I think most muslims kind of thought that these extremists and political hacks would just somehow go away and only now are we seeing how entrenched they are becoming.

Yet — you knew there was going to be a yet — at a time when we are so often entrenched in our positions, when political positions have become intractable stances, when certitude is a modern hallmark, here comes Sandgren.

In her answer, Nestle points out that when we talk about food, entrenched financial and political interests are at stake:

«The current political scandals expose structural weaknesses in the system that need to be addressed, but not in ways that entrench the powerful and preclude a more nonpartisan process,» the party's release declared.

The hope among the NLD leadership is that economic and political life can be gradually opened over the next three years and that moderates will be entrenched enough by 2015 to allow the NLD's inevitable victory at the polls in that year's general election to be translated into some real political power.

They argue that this would free Palestinians of the political and economic restrictions imposed by the Oslo Accords while preventing Israel from using it as a cover to entrench its occupation.

(The question of how you would entrench a written constitution in the UK has some similar features: the practical political point must be that you legislate to create institutions with a referendum; we have a new convention that it would take a referendum to abolish (eg the Scottish Parliament).

Ill - defined reforms entrench disengagement with the politics of the centre and, by failing to fundamentally shift the balance of power, exhaust political capital running in short supply.

The entrenched dominance of the SNP as Scotland's political voice remains unchallenged when two MPs denied the whip during inquiries into alleged misdemeanours, Michelle Thomson and Natalie McGarry, make suspended Nationalists the second strongest grouping in country where Labour, the Libs and Cons boast a single MP each.

Frequently people think that there are only two ways address flexibility in a constitution: to legally entrench an entire document and to protect it with strong judicial oversight, or to have a political constitution and a sovereign parliament, which, in the words of A.V. Dicey, «has... the right to make or unmake any law whatever....»

Given the extent to which the mediation process further entrenched Kenya's political elite, the state of the TJRC is not particularly surprising.

The frustration, however, is that deeply entrenched caution continues to bedevil their efforts to make political progress.

The plea has ramifications in this political season: It gives Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, whose office has conducted the investigation, a major win as his gubernatorial campaign seeks to burnish his bona fides as a crusader against entrenched corruption.

She said the «rough and tumble» politics of Chicago was «nothing» compared with what she saw in the capital, pointing to Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell's upfront desire to see President Obama fail and the entrenched special interests with a «political and financial interest» in maintaining the status quo.

For instance, the federal legislature has, by these amendments entrenched extensive electoral reforms, including financial and administrative autonomy for INEC as well as freeing the electoral umpire from political manipulations.

Enugu and Ebonyi State chapters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Monday, insisted on entrenching zoning of political positions in Nigeria's constitution.