Sentences with phrase «gives political points»

Firing him would give political points to Congress which could lead to impeachment.

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Political analyst Boban Stojanovic believes the publicity given to convicted war criminals is a ploy by the ruling party to «gain some political points» ahead of Political analyst Boban Stojanovic believes the publicity given to convicted war criminals is a ploy by the ruling party to «gain some political points» ahead of political points» ahead of the vote.

At some point Kudlow, likely for political expedience given the political «winds» of the country in the early 1980's, became a Republican.

Right now in our political environment and in the news (that's why you wrote this article) mentioning Islam gives you brownie points and throwing Islam under the bus triples those points.

It is considered a bit of a faux pas to point this out, but what we are talking about in part is a Democratic president, a largely Democratic professional administrative class in Washington, and an IRS whose workers belong to a union whose political action committee gave roughly 95 % of its political contributions last year to Democrats.

Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern of political self - delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept on doggedly voting D.

The impossibility of stamping «determinate sentencing» as good or bad in any given political climate points up the fact that reform measures ultimately depend on an informed, caring and articulate minority of citizens who can influence public opinion.

Some do try to give representation to differing points of view on both scholarly and political issues, but this is rather rare.

His main point: it looks like interest - group politics, and thus gives license for bad liberal and statist - Republican tax policy incentives when the political winds shift.

Western society, while still giving lip - service to religion, has evolved past the point where (for most people anyways) a satire or insult about jebus, the pope, or any other religious or political figure is reason enough to drawn down and start shooting.

By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faiths.

Given this context, one point of entry into this liturgy's field of analysis is by way of the «political» modality.

Canadians at one point in Ontario were thinking about having a Canadian Revolution, but, luckily, the British political leaders learned from their horrible failing in their treatment of Americans and they gave Canada a lot of political and economic rights — more than they gave the Americans, and they then gave us our own country.

An account of evil can be given from many points of view — medical, psychological, and political — but an account of the evil called sin implies belief in man's spiritual freedom and therefore in his guilt.

«Political leaders do not want to give a speech, cut a ribbon, or pose for photographs at the opening of a casino,» David Blankenhorn points out in a new and damning study, New York's Promise: Why Sponsoring Casinos Is a Regressive Policy Unworthy of a....

«Political leaders do not want to give a speech, cut a ribbon, or pose for photographs at the opening of a casino,» David Blankenhorn points out in a new and damning study, New York's Promise: Why Sponsoring Casinos Is a Regressive Policy Unworthy of a Great State.

Not through force, not by proselytizing, but first by finding more ways to give love, as Jeremy pointed out; then through individual, meaningful lifestyle changes and political involvement.

When asked pointed questions on Piers Morgan he gave the best political answer ever and squirmed out of the question.

-- has been so politicized by debate and sanitized by political correctness to the point that nowadays, apparently everyone is legally bound by court order to agree that all its advantages are basically negligible, a «given» that merits no special round of applause.

Why anyone would be opposed to giving healthy food to kids in schools is beyond me, but school food is a flash point for political fights.

But somehow, I doubt that it's going to make much difference, other than giving Republicans a way to score a few cheap political points at Democrats» expense.

Donations through LLCs have increased over the years, and Democrats were quick to point out their legislation would not bar the entities from political giving.

Chakrabarti has repeatedly topped lists of the most successful and influential Asian women in the UK, but little hesitation is given to smearing this woman's reputation to score political points.

Ditching Brown gave Labour a popularity boost of around four percentage points, but political parties rarely think strategically when choosing replacement leaders.

He lost by 14 points, an accomplishment for him given the lack of financial support for his candidacy and the state's political leaning.

Other blogs have tried to cover it up and distract from the point, but given their longstanding political and reciprocal relationship, we're wondering how far they will go to deceive the voters by forging fake resumes of community service chock filled with exaggerated and failed endeavors to convince us this man is a good choice for CD19.

Mr. Diaz, a close political ally of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, also suggested bringing in assistance from Albany — perhaps a sore point for the mayor's administration given the ongoing feud between Mr. de Blasio and the governor.

County Executive George Latimer has always made a point to highlight his political history of working with Republicans in a bipartisan manner, whether it was giving committee chairmanships to Republicans when he served as chairman of the BOL, or getting Republican support for his bills while in the State Senate.

Yet the liberal Democratic mayor ardently insisted that it would be «irresponsible» for him to curtail his fiscal ambitions at this point, given Trump's political impetuousness and his lack of «popular vote mandate.»

«It gives us a starting point to talk about the political issues.»

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan started making the point early and eloquently in the seventies, and last April, Mayor Michael Bloomberg invited some of the city's biggest political cash machines to lunch at the Four Seasons and gave each a handy wallet - size card listing the demands they should make on the city's behalf.

Though the record of ballot box success by candidates backed by the Democrat - turned - Republican - turned - independent mayor is spotty, his support will give the political newcomer Wilson something to point to in the face of the significant labor and institutional Democratic support enjoyed by his general election target, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

Now that she's won statewide election by a 26 - point margin, and has no credible challengers on the horizon for next year, when she'll run for a full term, it's becoming clearer what she intends to do with the remarkable political opportunity she has been given.

George Osborne gave in his evidence that the appointment of Coulson was not influenced by New Labour's appointment of Alastair Campbell and pointed out that whilst Campbell was a political editor, Coulson had experience of being an editor covering a broad range of issues.

«I give Governor Andrew Cuomo the benefit of the doubt that this wage board wasn't just an isolated political stunt to score some cheap points,» Dononhue said.

Whether or not specific municipal bond executives gave to the specific PACs, though, may be a moot point: Regulators and ethics experts note that the rule covers «any political action committee controlled» by the bond dealer.

«(Consolidation is) unlikely to reach the voters at this point, given the strong push - back against it, coming not only from communities in the city, but also much of the suburbs,» said Grant Reeher, director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute and a political science professor in Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, in an email.

I give Governor Andrew Cuomo the benefit of the doubt that this wage board wasn't just an isolated political stunt to score some cheap points.

But de Blasio, giving the keynote speech at an education conference hosted by Columbia University, called his nearly 50 - point win earlier this month «substantial» and the source of enough political capital to enact his ambitious agenda.

Sky News reports that the latest Ipsos Mori Political Monitor poll gives the Conservatives a 20 - point lead over Labour.

My point was that the non-scientists Will and Crichton should be listened to because they are giving testimony about the possibility of social - political issues involving bias.

But he's also trying to make a political point, meaning that scenes are often given over to lengthy state - of - the - nation diatribes about the cruelty of the banks and the powerlessness of the little guy.

The film focuses on a specific point in Kelly's career, «Grace Kelly, age 33 and having given up her acting career to focus on being a full time princess, uses her political maneuvering behind the scenes to save Monaco while French Leader Charles de Gaulle and Monaco's Prince Rainier III are at odds over the principality's standing as a tax haven.»

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.

Unfortunately, with midterm elections fast approaching, lawmakers appear more concerned with scoring political points and toeing the party line than with the give and take of writing complicated policy.

Worse, the best political spin that the reformers could come up with was that after privatizing virtually the entire education system in New Orleans, and giving the corporate education movement total control of the city, the «average composite score on the ACT for students in the Recovery School District (RSD) New Orleans rose by» less than half a percentage point.

In order to drive their point home, the Connecticut union leaders brought in Stephanie Bloomingdale, the secretary - treasurer of the Wisconsin AFL - CIO, to give a speech at the AFL - CIO political endorsing convention.

A few of the images in it give away some left - leaning political bias, but the chapters full of general principles and the specific debate tactics used successfully by the author are extraordinarily valuable to anyone with a point of view they want to verify and defend.

My main reason for blogging is not to develop a business, make political points, or earn money off of book reviews, advertising, or anything else, but to give something back.

don't nobody knock message boards: i participate in three which are absolute mustard: given the right kind of people and enough mutual association, they are the best way to swap ideas and even cooperate on projects (case in point: the TMF banking board successfully staged a fight against the Irish minister of finance to defend a bond widely held by its members — including legal action and political lobbying): there is something about the mechanism of general conversation in a small group of like - minded friends that can really take off