Sentences with phrase «less than political»

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In the election of an African - American president less than a half - century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice.

Former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, who also was the European Commission's top antitrust enforcer, gave an erudite and illuminating lecture on how the EU approaches antitrust with a more unified and less political voice than the U.S..

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staged his stunning political comeback, and came within less than a percentage point of winning the last week's election, on an anti-austerity, anti-German platform, mixed with promises of rescinding a widely resented and highly regressive real estate tax.

Sandberg's post came less than a week after The New York Times and The Observer of London reported that Cambridge Analytica, a political data company created by Stephen Bannon and Robert Mercer, gathered users» Facebook data and claimed it could influence the behavior of American voters.

Despite all the fury, political polling accounts for less than 5 % of the revenue of most market research firms.

The SHRM survey from June reports HR professionals have seen less political conversation in the workplace as compared with past elections, surmising that it's in part because the presidential race is even more polarizing than usual.

«The political brinksmanship of recent months highlights what we see as America's governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed,» S&P analysts explained in announcing the downgrade.

It is nothing less than a case of craven political pandering at its worst.

This is because America has one political party interested in raising taxes on people who make more than $ 300,000 and no political parties interested in raising taxes on people who make less than $ 300,000.

Since the popular vote for the Conservatives in 2011 was less than that, Mossop doesn't think Harper will pay any great political price for approving the pipeline.

There are strong suspicions that the people leading the debate are less concerned with the country's future than with their own political careers.

In a less traditional path to Wall Street than many of his peers, Solomon skipped the Ivy League and studied political science at Hamilton College in upstate New York.

A four - time loser in less than three years, Clement seemed to have run out of political lives.

Even an attempt on his life in 1990 that left him using a wheelchair kept him from the political stage for less than a year.

But for us to do so requires nothing less than a very substantially heightened degree of direct political activism by people who really care about the survival of our country.

The study revealed that less than 10 percent of adult viewing on Netflix was of its much - buzzed - about original series, like «House of Cards,» its political drama, and «Orange Is the New Black,» the dark comedy about prison.

However, this increased oversight and transparency does not necessarily translate into less spending, as companies with board oversight of political expenditures spent about 30 % more in 2010 than those without such explicit policies.

In the contract, Kogan's psychological profiling methods are described as «less costly, more detailed, and more quickly collected» than other individual profiling methods, such as «standard political polling or phone samples».

Jughead Trudope and the fed libtards, not that they're any less / more obedient to the multinational corporate czars than other political puppets infesting these institutions, wasted no time whipping Catherine McKenna into action right from the get go.

During the past several years, political contributions of Berkshire subsidiaries have been less than $ 10 million per year or less than 0.1 % of Berkshire's consolidated annual operating expenditures.

During the last midterm election in 2014, digital advertising accounted for less than 1 % of political spending in federal, states and local elections, according to advertising tracking firm Borrell Associates.

In fact, Grillo's party, founded only in 2009, focused less on euroskepticism than on a blanket rejection of the established Italian political elite and its way of doing politics.

Concerns about political / cultural differences influence attitudes towards an FTA with China, but they carry less weight than economic factors.

De-stabilised Middle East, rise of new power in Saudi Arabia, aggressive China, Russia - US tensions, Turkey - Russia escalation, rise of autocratic but nationalists leaders such as Modi in India, Trump in United States, bin - Salman in Middle East, the Geo - Political unease hasn't been this tense in decades, so as a market participant you can never care less than ever.

● Foreign investments may be more volatile and less liquid than U.S. investments and are subject to the risk of currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Seven years ago, on November 15, 2010 — less than two weeks after QE2 was announced — a group of prominent, nonconformist and thought - to - be forward - thinking economists, investors, and political strategists sent a letter to then Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.

Low volatility has lasted longer than many expected, but pullback predictions have increased, citing above - average valuations, heightened political uncertainty and the transition to less support from the Federal Reserve.

During the last midterm election in 2014, digital advertising accounted for less than 1 % of political spending in federal, state and local elections, according to advertising tracking firm Borrell Associates.

Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

This is the institutional path — we might also call it the political path — of charity, no less excellent and effective than the kind of charity which encounters the neighbour directly.

While less comprehensive than the path offered by Dreher or Salam / Douthat, Gerson and Wehner offer their own distinct blend of foci as a cure for the Republican intellectual and political malaise.

No matter who wins, it's another sure sign of shifting political lines, in which political parties are shaped less by policy than identity.

Without foundations, choices are finally arbitrary, and Rorty's reasons for choosing the failed political atheism that is one step removed from the liberal Protestant pulpit is less than convincing.

For instance, a 2014 Pew Research study found that Americans are less likely to vote for an atheist presidential candidate than any other survey category — even if they share that candidate's political views.

Less than 20 % of Americans said they would be unhappy if a close family member married someone from the opposite political party and only 11 % said they would be upset if that person was of a different race.

Preventing the former defect would require, among other things, that we think more ecclesiologically and less politically and that we regard the ecclesial order as more comprehensive than the political.

The Temple of Satan is less a religious body organized around rituals and regular meetings than a roving band of political provocateurs, according to Greaves.

Quoting Albert Wolters, Koyzis affirms that «redemption is nothing less than «creation regained,»» and dismisses the idea that political ethics should be understood Christologically.

Pew reports that «in their social and political views, young adults are clearly more accepting than older Americans of homosexuality, more inclined to see evolution as the best explanation of human life and less prone to see Hollywood as threatening their moral values.

This broader understanding of what we seek to defend should make social conservatives both more and less political than we have tended to be: We should be more political in that we do more than occasionally resort to legal appeals to protect our own freedom of action.

So, if we're still going to have people around calling themselves Christians I'll prefer that they be kinder, gentler and less political than the current variety.

The overall finding, however, is that Protestant clergy, both evangelical and oldline, are notably less overtly political and somewhat more theologically orthodox than was the case in 1989.

The political game as played from 1956 on in Poland was looser than elsewhere in the Soviet bloc, and a world away from the USSR itself, but less repression made for more ambiguity.

To suggest that total voluntary exclusion and participation in an individual's self selected religious practices and spiritual life is somehow politically incorrect or wrong, or making it a target of criticism or political point, is nothing less than a display of ignorance and disregard for individual rights.

And a 2008 study found that, in some countries, water use is one - fifth to one - half less efficient than it could be, because of internal political corruption.

One can concede that the tendency of two - kingdoms theology to subordinate political concerns to a lesser realm made it easier than it should have been for Lutherans under Hitler to ignore or rationalize the regime's moral evils, but the Nazis» anti-Semitism and their exaltation of the State to idolatrous heights could find no justification in legitimate Lutheran doctrines of morality or church - state relations.

Maybe the political protests were sometimes inspired by feelings of personal guilt (for evading the draft by going to school) and thus were less «political» than was claimed.

The TNR indictment is also correct in noting that Eliade was very much less than candid in his autobiographies when he discussed, marginally, the political aspects of his past.

In our contemporary context, I would suggest, church reform is less urgent than the reform of political, social, and economic systems of domination, today exacerbated greatly by the phenomenon of economic globalization.

Such skepticism has less to do with the personality of Jimmy Carter than with the vagaries of political power.