Sentences with phrase «expedient political»
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In the letter, the company said that «succumbing to political pressure to do what is expedient» would fly «in the face of our fiduciary responsibility as stewards of the company for the benefit of shareholders.»
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Its too expedient and convenient to make God take sides in political debates.
Professor of political science at Columbia University Andrew J. Nathan is keen on the tenacity of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to survive and stay in power, by its selective responses to the demands of certain sectors of Chinese populace and expedient reforms and relatively democratic ways within the government — all are to him, indications of...
So you go on using violence, even if at first you had thought that violence would be only a temporary expedient, even if you have achieved thorough change in your own or the general political situation.
Like the true artist, the political leader must be «violent and willing to use power,» but without normal constraints — in Heidegger's words: «lonely, uncanny, without expedients without law and limit, without structure and order, because as creators, they themselves must lay the foundation for all this.»
Professor of political science at Columbia University Andrew J. Nathan is keen on the tenacity of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to survive and stay in power, by its selective responses to the demands of certain sectors of Chinese populace and expedient reforms and relatively democratic ways within the government — all are to him, indications of the «authoritarian resiliency» of the CCP.
The theologian's task has been to maintain that transcendence against all ideological pretensions and political expedients.
The APC chieftain, who emphasised that conflicts must happen in a political setting, however noted that it is expedient for such to be resolved by progressives, to protect and sustain the legacies of statesmen like the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
Announcing his plans to withdraw the policemen on private guard duty, the IGP said, «In view of the current security challenges in the country, it has become expedient for the Nigeria Police Force to streamline the deployment of its personnel attached to political and public office holders, aimed at enhancing effective and efficient policing of the country.
It quickly came to seem merely an electoral expedient, not a genuine contribution to a wider political and cultural debate.
He stated, «After due consideration of the current political situation in the country, it becomes highly expedient to convene a conversation of critical Northern Elders and Stakeholders to deliberate on the best way forward for the region.
Fact: Vince Tabone is a carpetbagger from Astoria who has lived in Northeast Queens for a mere 7 years and only moved here because it was political expedient for his sorry political career.
«Since the people of the South - East geo - political zone have been clamouring for a president of Igbo extraction at the national level, it has become expedient to adopt the same zoning principle at the state level».
After all, who can resist offerings of great wealth, power and privileges that accrue to those who go along with what is political convenient, economically expedient, religiously tolerated and socially agreeable.
The question for us to consider is whether we possess the political will and moral courage to do things other than continue down the politically convenient and economically expedient «primrose path» so adamantly and relentlessly pursued by too many leaders of the global economy.
When shooting the messenger for bringing unwelcome news becomes the self - delusional political expedient, it is no longer the integrity of science that is the main concern.
The climate issue was expedient to the political establishment and its agenda, much as the schedule of the War on Terror was established before dodgy dossiers were compiled.
We think the politics of environmentalism are prior to the science, but that it is expedient to the existing political establishment, as are any other forms of «the politics of fear».
We are talking about fundamental rights, not expedient means to a political end.
As government lawyers who help ground decision - making in the international rule of law we have a crucial role to play in ensuring that the short - term and expedient solution to any given problem — which may be legally arguable - is set in the wider political and legal context that protects the UK's longer - term interests in having a responsive but robust international legal system.