Sentences with phrase «flouted political»

The candidate who flouted political correctness won.

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When it was all over, the tally of alleged wrongdoing cited here today, assigned to one party or another, included unpaid taxes (NDP), abusing election laws (Conservatives), improperly taking money from charities (Liberals), improperly claimed expenses (Liberals), illegal campaign debts (Liberals), illegal political donations (NDP), flouting Hill security (NDP), a potentially illegal cheque (Conservatives), secrecy (Conservatives) and sabotaging the committee to select the parliamentary budget officer (Conservatives).

Much to the delight of his supporters, he's spooked media and political elites all over the world with his anti-globalist pledges on trade and immigration and his calculated flouting of PC conventions.

Unfortunately, that has been flouted, generating reactions like that of Imran Khan, a former Pakistan cricket celebrity and current head of a new political [Justice] party in Pakistan: «No country has the right to be judge, jury and executioner....

If so many millions are flouting the law, Prohibition style, is there really a political will for harsh enforcement?

His sermon was part of a national campaign by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal organization that has organized Pulpit Freedom Sunday since 2008, encouraging pastors to flout the Johnson Amendment with political endorsements from the pulpit.

In his first year, Cuomo shepherded through the legalization of same - sex marriage, flouted protesters who had dubbed him «Governor One Percent» by passing tax reforms that increase taxes on the rich, and laid the political groundwork for a brand new convention center to be built in one of New York City's outer boroughs — all largely outside of the public eye.

Ayariga says he does not fathom why his APC, which started operation not long ago, could strive to fulfill all the requirement of the law in relation to the operation of a political party while the so - called bigger parties will flout such a key aspect of the law.

A Manhattan judge Tuesday issued a stunning rebuke to City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito — finding that she flouted two laws and even the state constitution in a behind - the - scenes power struggle with a political foe.

It warned that they should desist from flouting the law of the land and stop wasting the common patrimony of the people of the state on political jamboree at a time when the INEC had not permitted political rallies in the state.

«Through enhanced enforcement and increased penalties for political consultants who flout the law, this new legislation will root out bad actors and shine a spotlight on the sordid influence of dark money in politics,» Cuomo said.

Ironically reviewed by our own Martin McDonagh it may be «an original comedy, bolstered by an elite group of actors, who clearly dedicate themselves to their respective roles» but the flouting of political correctness meant the brilliance was missed by many.

Socialist Alternative is a political organization closely tied to Sawant that is flouting the national and state political accountability systems without any transparency or external scrutiny.

[47] While there is not an explicitly partisan or anti-capitalist edge to this type of work, it is structurally a political act in its flouting of laws, embrace of punk - rock and hip - hop aesthetics, and function as a means of populist or direct to the masses expression.

With All Eyes on Keystone, Another Tar Sands Pipeline Just Crossed the Border «The Keystone XL pipeline may be in political limbo, but that hasn't stopped another Canadian company from quietly pressing ahead on a pipeline project that will ramp up the volume of tar sands oil transported through the U.S.. What's more, the company, Enbridge, is making those changes without a permit, and environmental groups say it is flouting the law.

We have seen lots of allegations and snippets of evidence of grotesquely misleading, cherry - picked, bullying tactics aimed at confirming a narrative in support of a political agenda, that flout the age old tenets of the scientific method.