Sentences with word «grandstander»

As my colleague Rick Newman pointed out, Warren and the committee didn't have authority to administer any real punishment, which made Warren look like an ineffectual grandstander at first.

, Warren and the committee didn't have authority to administer any real punishment, which made Warren look like an ineffectual grandstander at first.

The commissioner has said, pointedly, that some lawmakers are self - serving grandstanders and interfere with his ability to run the department and keep the public safe; some lawmakers have cast him as an outlier in an administration whose stated goals are to reform NYPD culture and improve the department's relationship with communities of color.

Mix in a congressional grandstander (Bruce Davison) who taps into the public's paranoia to further his own career and you've got the best adventure film since the original «Star Wars» series.

In other words, a hot bench — in Canada, at least — is a serious and responsible bench, an engaged bench, not just a bunch of judicial grandstanders, each trying to outdo the other.

May 11, 2017: Trump, in an NBC interview, says he had been intending to fire Comey — whom he derided as a «showboat» and «grandstander» — for months.

«Grandstanders should not have gone on,» he added.

Grandstanders should not have gone on.

Frazier and five others weighed the risks and rewards and over a period of some 36 hours and stepped down from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative council that advises Trump, who dismissed them as «grandstanders.»

Calling Comey a «showboat» and a «grandstander,» the president made clear that firing the former FBI director was his decision — despite statements from White House officials that called Trump's move a result of recommendations from the Justice Department.

The shifting accounts of the decision to fire Comey, whom Trump derided as a «showboat» and «grandstander,» added to a mounting sense of uncertainty and chaos in the West Wing, as aides scrambled to get their stories straight and appease an angry president.

His remarks were a reversal of what he said a day before, when he tweeted that he had plenty of CEOs who wanted to be on the panels to replace those who quit, and called the CEOs who left «grandstanders.»

President Trump on Tuesday ripped three top corporate chief executives who resigned from his manufacturing council in protest of his handling of the Charlottesville, Va., violence, calling them «grandstanders» and saying they were embarrassed because they...

Trump described former FBI Director James B. Comey as «a grandstander» in a May interview with NBC in explaining why he fired him.

President Trump on Tuesday ripped three top corporate chief executives who resigned from his manufacturing council in protest of his handling of the Charlottesville, Va., violence, calling them «grandstanders» and saying they were embarrassed because they made their products abroad.

He then said that «grandstanders should not have gone on» the council, which Trump formed shortly after taking office in January.

«He's a showboat, he's a grandstander, the FBI has been in turmoil.

No one can honestly judge Tim Tiboe of being a «grandstander.»

With basic needs — parking spot, admission, program, Racing Form and reserved seat — the grandstander puts out $ 4.50 before he makes the first cast at the mutuels; the clubhouse swell goes for an extra buck and.

Schneiderman like Spitzer before him was a grandstander trying to make a name for himself with many many many frivolous lawsuits.

Many of the Democratic political establishment aren't necessarily huge Cuomo fans but just as many, if not more, despise Bharara, who they see him as a grandstander.

Though Mayor James called him «a grandstander,» Booker proved to be that and more when he announced his support for school vouchers in 2001.

Of course, not one of those grandstanders showed up at the new Board of Home Inspectors first meeting Dec. 13 (reported in the article above).