Sentences with phrase «just score political points»
«Those are reforms that will make a change, not just score political points, because now the politicians are feeling heat,» he said.
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The other is a Donald Trump lookalike who never actually wanted to leave the UK but just score political points, and he has stepped back again, trying to create the impression that he was «stabbed in the back».
Not exact matches
(CQ: http://moneyline.cq.com and National Institute on Money in State Politics: http://www.followthemoney.org) In addition, FedEx scored just 42.9 out of 100 points in the 2013 CPA - Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Accountability and Disclosure, placing it near the bottom of a ranking of the 196 largest U.S. companies.
And using a natural disaster that is costing lives as a chance to score a cheap, not particularly profound political point is just bad form across the board.
Extremism and ignorance exist in all religions, Ramesy is just a pathetic example of «Christian» extremism and who is trying to score some political points.
«We should be building bridges with the PCC and it is shameful that certain councillors are risking damaging the positive relationship we have with her just to score cheap political points.
Parliament isn't just a place to score political points.
«It's disgraceful for Sen. Reid to deny cancer patients... just because he wants to score some political points,» said Republican Study Committee Chairman Steve Scalise of Louisiana on the House floor Wednesday afternoon.
Just as some described it as a right step in the right direction, others have described it as a sheer attempt by the Buhari - led government to score cheap political points.
And just last night, in a House of Commons debate on the European Budget, we saw Europe turned into a political football as political opportunists sought to score a political point.
«It is indeed a tragedy of immense proportion if the Senate President will close his eyes to these genocidal acts, and instead attempt to incite an armed rebel group against state actors, just to score cheap political points.
«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.
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.
National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) spokeswoman Joanna Burgos responded to Biden's comments saying, «It's incredibly tasteless and offensive for the vice president to stoop to this level just to score political points.
What we have is some outrageous politically - motivated FALSE CHARGES HERE - not meant to improve any race relations at all - just to score cheap political points.
Dr Lartey believes the fierce opposition being vented on the government because of the agreement is just a ploy to score political points.
What NY needs is an AG who can do more then just continue to hit Wall Street to score political points.
Is the Trump administration really undermining civil rights enforcement, or is this just another effort by the outgoing administration to score political points against its successor?
I assume he was just trying to score political point with the accountability folks and public school parents since no useful results could have been provided.
It just lowers your posts to political point scoring and ideologically driven nonsense.
Indeed we're more likely to establish good quality data if people accept it's actually going to be used for something, as opposed to just scoring points in a political shouting match which is more about justifying climate alarm than it is about informing policy.