Sentences with phrase «little party point»

Faced with the opportunity to build on the work of former ministers Robin Cook and Jack Straw and be the «friends of reform» Labour instead «turned into miserable little party point - scoring politicians instead».

Not exact matches

Both men pointed out to West that, yes, Abraham Lincoln was a member of the Republican party, but it's a little more complicated than that.

i; m not sure i follow your little brother thing, but sharing ideas and a conversation with two differing view points is a debate, and if both parties don't try to kill the other one this is a world of understanding thru conflict, for a differing point of view is in confliction with the others.

Doctor was concerned, at one point, that little guy would want a birthday party before...

Another place I could have hired would have been soft play, but the majority of the people at the party are adults so there was little point in this.

The rallying point for the Republican Party and its factions from Paul to the Tea Party, is that there is little actual need for government, so its role should be as limited as possible.

Trump may be the only lifelong New Yorker in the presidential race, but that doesn't seem to win him any points in his hometown, according to results of an exclusive NY1 / Baruch College City poll, which which also found surprisingly little enthusiasm for a third - party run by former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

My point was that there is little difference in ethics, honesty or scruples between the parties.

But if he is left standing, and with the Labour Party likely to be little more than a smoking ruin at this point, the PLP must then hold to commitment number two: it must ditch them regardless.

Low - April 22nd: Sectarian headcount - Margaret Ritchie, party leader for the SDLP lays into Sinn Fein, saying: «Those who are offering little more in this election than the latest sectarian headcount are missing the point.»

With its backers gone and its already brittle relationship with the governor crumbled to the point of nonexistence, the party had little left to lose when it decided to back Cynthia Nixon as its candidate for governor earlier this year.

It's a little hard to peg down the exact amount at this point because the party housekeeping accounts, which have no contribution limits and are thus the favored vehicles of deep - pocketed donors, are not required to file its next report until the middle of next month.

To make what he was saying a little clearer, Davey added: «That's after the next election», with a pointed reference to the «the next government, whichever parties are in it.»

It's little wonder then that the smaller parties seem so keen to point out that these three do not offer any genuine choice.

The labor - backed Working Families Party wasted little time in blasting out a fundraising email pointing to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan's backing on Thursday of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Clinton is ahead of Trump by 21 percentage points — 51 - 30 percent — which is down a little from a 25 - point, 50 - 25 percent lead last month, the poll found, with eight percent of voters saying they support Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and three percent backing Green Party nominee Jill Stein.

Pointing out that, «In our little wisdom we believe that if this appointment is allowed to stand, our party's secrets and privacy is in danger».

It's true that there would be little point in electing a new leader until the party has done some soul - searching and re-established itself.

The fight between Mr. Cuomo and Ms. Nixon has emerged as an early flash point in the battle to define the future of the Democratic Party in the age of President Trump: a contest between an accomplished and pragmatic governor who controls the classic machinery of Democratic politics, and an upstart challenger with little track record but white - hot rhetoric of unfiltered liberalism to rally the base.

While some in Labour also advocate tough talk on immigration, Ed Miliband has charted a different course; he wants to reconnect with Ukip's left - behind voters but sees little point in trying to out - Ukip the party.

The Conservatives meanwhile saw very little rise in their figures at all — David Cameron saw only a meagre rise in his popularity and there was no boost at all to the party's image (in fact the proportion of people thinking the Conservatives had made it clear what they stood for fell by 4 points).

Unless there is a level playing field there is little point of talking about party funding — if one group is getting millions of pounds worth of advertising free and others are restricted and barred there is no such level playing field.

The media, having been collectively a little bored by the campaign until that point, got hugely excited and proceeded to spend several days building up Clegg further and it seemed that the man and his party could do no wrong.

Now that all the main parties have converged — you couldn't put a rizla paper between the modernised Tories, One Nation Labour and the Orange Book LibDems — there is little point in voting Labour, unless you happen to think Miliband will be a prettier occupant of Number 10.

It's worth point out that the map in the Telegraph does seem to take into account either the potential for SNP gains in Scotland or for Conservative gains against the LibDems — in fact the map doesn't seem to show a single Conservative gain from the LibDems, which seems a little odd, as (at the very least) some «churn» between the parties is almost a given.

I should point out here that we often went to parties hosted by the kind of people who gave little thought to fashion.

At one point Andy throws a little pity party for himself, asking if anybody understands how hard it is for a kid to keep his toys under wraps instead of playing with them, and it's a poignant character note because it's psychologically suggestive of Carell's status in his adult life — but it isn't dwelled upon.

«Roughly 2 and a half years ago I played this little party for Prince, and at one point he goes: Stop the music, I wan na play something,» Paris wrote on the social media site.

She'll be in a great mood, it'll set the tone for the rest of her day, for our day as, among the many things we share, Kristen Bell Hate is something we developed together, at the same time, at Sundance, when that little twat was such a f-cking bitch to the entire media line at a party, an even bigger bitch than P Diddy at the same party (which is saying something in itself and at this point Veronica Mars was over) that we vowed never to bother with her ass ever again.

In a year when mainstream Republicans have mostly bested tea party - backed challengers, a little - known and little - funded tea party challenger in Virginia's 7th Congressional District pulled the upset of the year, defeating House Majority Leader Eric Cantor by 10 percentage points.

In our current political environment, rule - making often seems little more than a way to score points against the rule makers» rival party.

I wanted to ask a little bit about the, you had a number of parties go over your reserves, three and all I believe and how, I would assume at this point you are rather certain that you have been able to clean up most of reserving problems particularly given what was happening in your claim department prior to, I guess September 2007?

Seems I am a little late to the party with this one, however, SPG has a promotion through to the end of the year, offering 500 SPG points for making a booking using their mobile -LSB-...]

Vessels differ between large luxury cruiser with amazing services and facilities including restaurants bars, entertainment on board and amazing rooms and on deck view points down to intimate little luxury crafts that may take a private party or a few guests on a personalized tour.

Considering this first party game is due out later this year and to this point has not really been seen by anyone, you would have figured Microsoft would have given it a little more time to shine.

Once all the enemies in the other party are defeated, the battle ends, experience points and items are rewarded, and your little party of warriors is free to go on their way.

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It is true that the result either way, by dismissal or by a judgment for the defendant, makes very little, if any, difference in a pecuniary or personal point of view to either party.

Following that, a dissatisfied party could appeal the arbitration to the courts; they may have little chance of success but the important point is that the courts are not legally excluded (just practically excluded unless you have very deep pockets).

Remember that alcohol can make you feel dizzy at some point no matter how little or how much you have taken in from a friend's party.

Facebook's decision to stop working with third - party data collectors might earn it public - relations points, but it does little to protect your privacy.

Had it released in the US a lot earlier, it would have garnered a lot more attention, but at this point, there are numerous great options at different price points, and Nubia might be a little late to the party.