Sentences with phrase «further political agendas»

Do law reform commissions provide governments with camouflage, allowing them to further their political agendas with a veneer of impartiality?»

No one who reads this space regularly would be surprised to hear that the big utility companies employ front groups to further their political agendas in the states in which they operate.

The claims that students are «crisis actors» paid to take advantage of the tragedy to further political agendas have spread on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube.

The unBelief Blog is a CNN prop to attack Christianity and further a political agenda.

It's just you democraps are liars and swindlers when you use these groups of people to further your political agenda.

What quote that Obama has said has convinced you that you're «sick of him using (the Sky) God to further his political agenda?

So you are saying God would want us to use him to further a political agenda?

Many of those during conventions even told me privately that they don't really believe anymore, and that it was about furthering political agendas, «to get many folks to think the way we think» so that we may establish a true Christian Nation with BIBLICAL LAWS.

Do we seize on these events to further our political agenda?

The candidates you are putting up, you are expecting them to work for you, cater to your own interests and to try to further your political agenda.

Either senior figures in Ukip have become so engrossed with their politics that they are incapable of human decency, or there is a party strategy of utilising highly upsetting events to further its political agenda.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox blasted Cuomo's tour as a gimmick intended to further his political agenda «at the grave expense of New York's economy.»

«What Gov. Cuomo is doing is an unprecedented and underhanded maneuver to further his political agenda and it unfair to the children of New York,» Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R - Geneva) said.

You suggest that activists saw climate change as a «golden opportunity to further a political agenda: reining in corporations, regulating free markets and imposing environmental legislation», and that these have prematurely politicised the science and caused «pushback» from the other side.

One of the reasons we're struggling to deal with it is that some activists saw it as a golden opportunity to further their political agenda: reining in corporations, regulating free markets and imposing environmental legislation.

The same goes for furthering your political agenda or recruiting participants for your pyramid scheme.

She added that the inspectorate was independent and «was not about furthering any political agenda».

She added that Ofsted was an independent body and «was not about furthering any political agenda».

But keep in mind; this is exactly what we experienced with President Obama's secretary of education and the president himself — the promise to listen yet their actions only furthered the political agenda of the ruling elite.

«Ofsted does not have a preferred model for schools; we are independent and are not about furthering any political agenda,» its statement continues.

Furthermore, I can not support a system that seeks to supplant common sense for politics, and the economic advantage of a few, mainly publishers, to further the political agenda of our incompetent lawmakers.

Like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), they setout to prove their hypothesis, to further their political agenda.

Those who call it air pollution are trying to present carbon dioxide as something it is not, in order to further a political agenda.»

In his own words he admits to using Climate'Science» to further a political agenda:

«I have zero problem with the Heartland docs being released, with the caveat that if personal information relating to some individuals should have been redacted, as I think that the activities of organisations which attempt to influence public policy should be open to scrutiny in general, and especially where they are pushing misinformation on scientific issues to further a political agenda.

If it is a victory for anything, it is a victory for fear - mongery: exactly what critics (many in the Observer) of Bush (and, for that matter, Tony Blair — «dodgy dossier and sexed - up documents) criticised Bush for — for his War on Terror: the use of fear to further his political agenda.

South Carolina governor says that the walkout is shameful attempt by the left wing to use students to further their political agenda,» Boldrick says.

That finding is not enough for an article, and so it has been paraded out as the ostensible reason for a write up whose larger purpose is to further a political agenda.

Not exact matches

Spencer later credited Nietzsche with inspiring him to pursue his far - right political agenda.

From there, growth has never been far from the agenda at Vox Media, which now operates eight niche media brands, including Polygon for gamers, Vox for political newshounds, and Racked for fashionistas.

The president has responded harshly toward Republican congresspeople whom he considers insufficiently supportive of his agenda, even going so far as to meet with their primary challengers, while a pro-Trump political action committee at one point purchased, then withdrew, campaign ads against a senator who was wavering on the Senate GOP's health - care bill.

To see Plato through fourth - century Athenian eyes as just another young aristocrat, his dialogues a way to attract a following by which to further his own political agenda or feather his nest financially, is to strip away the later accretions of canonicity and to see him for what he was rather than for what the Western world has made of him.

Third, abortion advocates, without any doubt, are attempting to further their agenda by using international meetings that have little if any political oversight by, or democratic accountability to, the electorates of the nations attending those meetings.

Plenty of old testament laws are considered applicable when it's convenient or furthers someone's political agenda.

Little or no notice was taken nor any mention made of the fact that, in pursuit of the gaffe, the media had allowed themselves to be used» to put it charitably» by people with a political agenda that was obviously furthered by blackening the reputation of an innocent man.

This is an example of taking «the Lord thy God in vain» — a politician using their «faith» and God's name to further their personal, political agenda.

Identity provides the perfect religious frame for the far right's political agenda.

You're dreaming if you believe the American people will allow any political candidate to use this recession to further their own religious agenda.

When Buffalo Grove «s new village president steps into office April 15, he wo n`t have far to look for a political agenda.

Like the title of his recent book, My Scotland, Our Britain, and his post-referendum agenda for further devolution to Scotland and broader constitutional reform, Brown's vision has offered no place for or political recognition for England as a nation.

Miller told the commissioner that Paladino's acts were a «calculated judgment» to further the Buffalo businessman's own «political agenda» and that Paladino believes he is a «law unto himself.»

This group of legislators is very pro-tenant and not necessarily known for its enthusiastic support of New York City real estate development... The assumption that each and every political donation is made solely to further a business agenda is unsupported by the facts.»

White said he drew a distinction between appointments that were straight political payoffs and those that furthered the city's goals and the mayor's agenda.

But the mayor also said that his outburst last year, in which he accused the governor of shortchanging his political agenda out of a desire for «revenge,» was far from spontaneous, calling the diatribe the result of more than a year's worth of mounting tensions and slights by the governor against de Blasio.

And so far at least, his agenda seems robust - not marked by the endless political calculation for which Andrew is famous.

On further inspection this division has existed within the Labour Party since its inception and when electoral reform has appeared on the political agenda in the twentieth and twenty - first centuries, it has prompted debate within the party.

And we are going to ensure that Governor Cuomo's harmful political agenda is kept far away from the work that we do every day to help our students.

Obama has committed to raising money for fellow Democrats, agreed to help recruit viable candidates, and launched a political nonprofit group dedicated to furthering his agenda and that of his congressional allies.

In a letter sent to the City's Campaign Finance Board Wednesday, NYC Deserves Better and Tusk argue that the millions of dollars the Campaign for One New York has already spent were «used to further [de Blasio's] political agenda,» and therefore «should count toward the board's 2017 Citywide election spending limits.»

«However, because of pending deadlines for parties to formally place alternate candidates on the ballot, I simply am not willing to take a chance that Ken LaValle and his incompetent political agenda would run unopposed for a second straight election should my further appeals fail.»