Sentences with phrase «lot of political capital»

«I just want to praise all my colleagues who put a lot of political capital on the line and who are going to get beaten up by people because of it.

Davey is burning thru a lot of political capital with the fanbase by continually ignoring the elephant - sized hole in the lineup.

Thinking of pensions as something more akin to public goods such as education or infrastructure — where what you pay in and what you get out are basically uncorrelated — will be a tough sell to the electorate and will take a lot of political capital.

Mr Blair has lost a lot of political capital in his support for the US in Iraq, and there have been increasing calls for Britain to distance its policy from that of Washington.

For the governor, this is a signature proposal that he's spent a lot of political capital trying to get passed.

Mr Laws, a former Liberal Democrat MP, said that a «lot of political capital has been invested» in presenting academies as the way to raise school standards.

Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau have invested a lot of political capital in TMX but are ignoring the bigger picture.

The pragmatic pundits have invested their hopes in this delicate series of hypotheticals, viz., sceptical backbenchers are too dopey to realize what's going on, Turnbull is still the old Malcolm, he has a lot of political capital, he will spend it on climate change, and Labor will go along with it all.