Sentences with phrase «hit political research»

Not exact matches

«A political earthquake has hit Albany,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, which has pushed for a special session this year to enact tougher ethics laws.

«A political earthquake has hit Albany,» said Blair Horner of The New York Public Interest Research Group.

After he became a political consultant, he hit upon the idea of framing such research as a waste of taxpayer money.

Oil Change works to achieve its mission by producing strategic research and hard - hitting investigations; engaging in domestic and international policy and media spaces; and providing leadership in organizing resistance to the political influence of the fossil fuel industry.

For instance, several of the newspapers ran Mike de Souza's hard - hitting series on Friends of Science, which extended SourceWatch research on FOS to lay bare the dubious activities of University of Calgary political science professor Barry Cooper.

For example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather than in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before them.