Sentences with phrase «escalating political»

Exhaustive work and escalating political commitment will be needed if the civilization - saving potential of the Paris climate agreement is to be realized.

Monday's rally for Stewart - Cousins came after a week of escalating political tensions in Albany and racial tensions in Charlottesville, and just hours before President Trump returned to his Midtown home.

On April 8, Kinder Morgan Canada held an unusual Sunday conference call to announce an immediate halt to all non-essential spending on the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline, threatening to pull the plug on the project completely unless the escalating political conflicts over the pipeline could be resolved by May 31.

So why would Kinder Morgan executives be issuing misleading press releases and rushing to market while facing escalating political risk?

Turkey's main stock market fell the most in more than a year Monday as investors dumped the country's currency amid an escalating political standoff following the arrest of a Turkish national at the U.S. consulate in Instanbul.

One, Kinder Morgan Canada's President is lying in order to puff his IPO, counter the escalating political risk facing his proposal, and mislead investors about the timing of when construction will begin; or

Former New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito is taking a full time job with the Latino Victory Fund — a PAC aimed at increasing Latino representation in local, state and federal government — in a move that could further escalate her political profile beyond the five boroughs.

When her big firm boss (Sam Waterston) tries to strong arm her into working with the NRA to quash the proposed gun - control legislation... encouraging her to «get women excited about guns»... she quickly takes her competitive nature (and most of her staff) to the opposition, resulting in escalated political warfare.

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Turkey told the Netherlands on Sunday that it would retaliate in the «harshest ways» after Turkish ministers were barred from speaking in Rotterdam, as a row over Ankara's political campaigning among Turkish immigrants escalated.

In a legal filing on Monday, ETP asked a judge to grant the permit, saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in its decision, responded to «political pressure and an escalating campaign of violence and disorder waged by protesters» against the project.

Back in August — with the Greek debt crisis escalating and U.S. political gridlock on budget policy frightening investors everywhere — Flaherty was pressed by NDP finance critic Peggy Nash to consider pumping some federal cash into the vulnerable Canadian economy.

While the regime seems likely to remain stable in 2018, the struggle for power and assets among the political elite will continue to escalate, and economic and foreign policy challenges create long - term uncertainty.

It remains to be seen whether tough trade talks between Trump and Chinese president Xi will reap rewards, and political tensions with North Korea have escalated.

At the same time, constitutional scholars from all points on the political spectrum acknowledge an escalating irrationality in the constitutional conversation.

It'll be interesting to see if those political leaders who admire Rand continue to talk openly about her philosophy as the 2012 presidential campaign escalates.

In Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, for example, some local Pentecostals have been used by U.S. neo-conservative and fundamentalist groups to escalate and / or control the political tensions of the region.

Under present conditions, the intense consciousness raising about the «rightness» of personal choices that worked so well in the early days of the women's movement will end up escalating the divisive finger - pointing that stands in the way of political reform.

National, regional, and local cleavages within and between union - wide political parties will also escalate and solidify.

What I am criticising, and will continue to criticise, is the escalating inability of the middle - class left to talk to or about anyone who is NOT middle class and middle - aged as if they are human beings, to really listen to their needs and thoughts and strategies and accept that they too have political ideas which are just as important as yours.

If three of four upstanding British citizens can be brainwashed into voluntarily committing armed robbery in two weeks of «motivational therapy» sessions, then what has been the impact of years and years of escalating invective on the American political sphere?

Political tensions have escalated since in the municipality since the appointment of Hajia Aishatu.

It however escalated to Okehi and Adavi local government areas on Sunday during which hoodlums unleashed mayhem on political rivals in the areas.

Johnson has used his political standing to escalate his row with the government over its aviation strategy, warning that further inaction could lead to «economic catastrophe».

The institutional tension between the NYC mayor and the governor has escalated since Cuomo took office last January, a development due in part to the stark differences in style and political ideology.

The letter set off political repercussions that escalated — in a way Miner surely never anticipated — into criminal charges and a full - blown legal battle that continues today between the mayor and Onondaga County prosecutors.

For the many congressional Democrats in the region who haven't taken a stance on President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, political pressure has intensified as the White House courts their support and the pact's opponents escalate their lobbying efforts.

A fight over the ice rink at Buffalo's Canalside involves state officials, the project's designer and a local construction company, and has escalated to lawsuits and accusations that political donations influenced the award of a state contract worth millions of dollars.

The battle escalated into all - out war last summer when, at the end of the legislative session, de Blasio blasted the governor as a «game - playing» bully more interested in political scheming and personal advancement than the city's well - being.

The political row surrounding London Mayor Ken Livingstone has escalated tonight, with the Conservatives calling on Tony Blair to impose party sanctions.

Another danger of such an approach of using military strikes to promote a political solution is that it will be very difficult to get the balance right between the threat of continuing and escalating military action against the regime and shifting the balance of power just enough to create incentives on both sides to negotiate.

Independent Political Report: Howie Hawkins: Cuomo's 5th Straight Austerity Budget Escalates His War on Public Education

The crisis rocking the apex Igbo socio - political body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, escalated on Sunday as the youth wing of the association, Ohanaeze Youth Council, announced the «suspension» of the President General, Chief Nnia Nwodo.

With just a week left until the vote, some expect the political jockeying to escalate, especially with some candidates» waging court battles for a spot on the ballot.

For Mr. Cuomo, the experience fueled a belief that he has voiced with escalating emphasis in recent months: Mr. de Blasio is more concerned with political rhetoric and talking points than practical results.

The national electoral council's vote counts in the past had been seen as reliable and generally accurate, but the widely mocked announcement appeared certain to escalate the polarization and political conflict paralyzing the country.

Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island and former chair of the Senate education committee, published his column in the middle of an escalating feud between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and de Blasio and months before the start of next Albany legislative session, which is sure to be dominated by political posturing in preparation for the 2016 elections when the entire legislature will be on the ballot.

Harsh political struggles on how best to move forward and escalating fiscal uncertainties aside, this plan enjoys substantial support and promises as much drama as the Apollo landings.

With that picture, and 2011's «Another Earth,» Marling's announced herself as a major voice in genre filmmaking, but for her follow - up with Batmanglij, it looks like they've opted for a more expansive, unsettling experience, with urban political statements cross-bred with an escalating sense of doom.

The Campaign gives us a view of an imaginary political arena that is only a few levels escalated from the absurdity of the current one.

Frustrated by continually escalating threats to the environment and by the deafness shown by political leaders, Josh (Jesse Eisenberg, «Now You See Me») an organic farmer who lives in an agricultural cooperative in Oregon, Dena (Dakota Fanning, «The Last of Robin Hood») a young college dropout with considerable family wealth, and Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard, «Green Lantern»), an ex-Marine with expert knowledge of explosives, decide to blow up a hydroelectric dam as a protest against the desecration of the environment.

The film kicks off with a quick timeline of the political maneuverings that led to, and escalated, the Vietnam War.

Working with - or, if necessary, against - the police, she must negotiate the local political minefields and navigate the backwoods of the Adirondacks to uncover the truth before events escalate further.

Political pressures escalated in Washington with several White House staff exits and new appointments made by President Trump.

The sculpture is given additional pertinence by the knowledge that Celmins» father was a builder of houses and the political backdrop in the 1960s included escalating protests against the Vietnam War.

Inspired by recent events, the watercolors, drawings, and collage works in the exhibition were made in the summer of 2017 in the wake of heightened political division and escalating racial violence across the country.

The escalating military overreach abroad, the corruption of political and financial elites at home, and the market - driven culture of mass distractions on the internet, TV, and radio push toward an inescapable imperial meltdown, in which chauvinistic nationalism, plutocratic policies and spectatorial cynicism run amok.

However, if they were part of a political movement that was influencing the gov» t to sell all its snow - blowers and sand trucks because this whole «winter is coming» thing is a hoax, I just might escalate the rhetoric!

The purpose IS as you said: to «extract the most reliable global warming signal», which is POSTULATED, not theorized, to exist, certify that it is caused by ACO2, and provide a laundry list of undesirable to catastrophic consequences which ARE befalling us (present tense) and which will continue and escalate unless political action is taken to drastically curb our use of fossil fuels.

Nisbet argues that «urgent calls to escalate the war against climate skeptics may lead scientists and their organizations into a dangerous trap, fueling further political disagreement while risking public trust in science».

With little appearing to have changed after Sunday's pipeline summit in Ottawa, the political dispute over Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Pipeline continues to escalate.