Sentences with phrase «make political points in»

It's the first time he's stopped Brown making a political point in PMQs, I think.

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The U.S. Senate recently passed a resolution condemning the prosecution and continuing incarceration of former prime minister Yuliya Tymoshenko and her political allies.8 Various European leaders, including OSCE Parliamentary Assembly members, have made a special point of visiting Tymoshenko in prison and lobbying for her release.9 Her incarceration has become one of the main obstacles in Ukraine's relations with the EU, stalling Ukraine's hitherto successful bid for a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with Brussels.

What these groups have in common is that they are all broadly making the point that the political system and those in power are failing them — be it in the ability to offer basic education, affordable health care, or keeping kids safe in classrooms.

excerpt: «First of all, if you did not do so yesterday, please take the time to read Kevin Carmichael's look at the trip, and in particular how pack journalism narratives have formed, but he makes very relevant points about the political dynamics and the regional politics of India that the Canadian media is completely ignoring.»

English political scientist Stephen Hopgood makes the point in what is my favorite title of an academic conference paper, «Sinners in the Hands of an Angry ICC.»

Among the points made was that, despite the bishops» declared intention, a statement such as «Political Responsibility,» issued by the United States Catholic Conference (USCC), is in fact a political platform, and it inevitably presents the Catholic Church as but another political interePolitical Responsibility,» issued by the United States Catholic Conference (USCC), is in fact a political platform, and it inevitably presents the Catholic Church as but another political interepolitical platform, and it inevitably presents the Catholic Church as but another political interepolitical interest group.

You are making it needlessly hard, or are perhaps just plain too stupid to understand such a simple fact as: there's no point debunking myths that virtually no one and no one at all with any real clout believes in anyway, but MUCH point in debunking myths that large numbers of people, including powerful politicians, believe should be the guiding principles for the country's entire political culture and laws.

But the same point can be made in terms of economic and political systems.

In the light of that, it is an important point you made Reema about culprits and perpetrators possibly being institutions and political organizations that enforce certain schools - of - thought and practices.

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.

Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).

Hegel tended always to make the individual a mere passing - point, a moment, in the cosmic process, and to insist on the individual's gaining his concrete ethical significance through being identified with the social, religious, and political institutions of his time.

This monologue is skillfully written, and even though it may have been conceived with political correctness in mind, it makes a very important and discussable point.

Indeed, the fundamental point here is that the strong appeal of the proposals being made by the new reformers is due to the fact that they cohere so well with the way in which we now understand political life and with the way in which we represent ourselves as moral agents.

Beheading someone for no reason other than to make a political point is evil in any civilized society.

And in exploring the wide implications of it all, he noted «the risk of an alliance between democracy and ethical relativism, which would remove any sure moral reference point from political and social life, and on a deeper level make the acknowledgement of truth impossible» (VS 101) and warned us, as he had done in an earlier encyclical, that «As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism».

Barth's theology marked a complete break with the adjustments to modem culture and Prussian political order that Bonhoeffer had learned from his mentors in Berlin, and it provided the staffing point for the Confessing Church, which absorbed Bonhoeffer's pastoral energies after Hitler's ascendancy made it impossible for him to continue university teaching.

Rather, both are interested in making a profound political point through an attention - grabbing allegory.

This is exactly the point that John Calvin made in treating the issue of political authority.

While I commend Beck for advocating charity (even if he does it mostly to make political points), if people like Beck and Santorum are such devout, outspoken Christians, why were they not vocal in support of the long - standing Vatican and Christian position that the War in Iraq violated Christian Just War Criteria from the beginning, and vociferously denounce the draft - dodging, war profiteers and religious hypocrites who started it?

In the chapter on politics, she analyzes the weaknesses of political theologies that seek to make the inner life of the Trinity a paradigm for human communal life, pointing out that such approaches lead to bad theology and vague political recommendations.

As I hope I've made plain in my just war writing over the last fifteen years, there are certain forms of political «order» that are not «right order» and need not be preserved — indeed, conscience may require that they be resisted, by a variety of means, a point on which Thomas Jefferson and Lech Walesa would have agreed.

Referring to the criticism made by Peter Beyerhaus and some others that in the World Council's emphasis on social and political justice there is present a social utopianism which denies the fact of sin and affirms a self - redemptive humanism, Thomas admitted that the danger is always present, but pointed out the opposite danger of not admitting the fact of divine grace and the power of righteousness it releases for a daring faith in the realms of social and political action.

I don't deny that wrong decisions were made at probably all of the councils at some point, but of the councils that truly shaped Christianity, the seven ecumenical councils, while they are ridden with strife and political maneuvering as well as true Christian devotion and worship, I believe that most of what they decided in terms of doctrine is not wrong.

As Toby Huff points out, the idea of legal autonomy and corporate persons brought in its wake: constitutional government, consent in political decision - making, the right to political and legal representation, the power of adjudication and jurisdiction, and the power of autonomous legislation.

But these assertions miss completely the more subtle point that Tinder, Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, makes in this interesting, though uneven, book.

It is about scoring political points on something that has no hope of actually making a difference in the real world.

While I commend Beck for advocating charity (even if he does it mosty to make political points), if people like Beck and Santorum are such devout, outspoken Christians, why were they not vocal in support of the long - standing Vatican and Chrisitan position that the War in Iraq violated Christian Just War Criteria from the beginning, and vociferously denounce the draft - dodging, war profiteers and religious hypocrites who started it?

Further, it's gotten to the point where any comment made in support of an argument made by the right is labeled racist, etc., as if someone in a political position one doesn't share can never be right about anything (a problem shared by both those on the left and right).

I do «get» the point (made in previous blog post) that the concern is about the political involvement in the tomato paste question.

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

In a functionally related point, the Trump Administration has been slow to make all available political appointments compared to other administration, leaving many posts with only «acting» incumbents or holdovers from the Obama administration.

Jonah makes the excellent point that conservatives (and libertarians) dominated the «net in its earliest days, and I'll back him up on that — when I was helping to assemble the list of websites for a targeted political search engine back in 1999, progressive / lib sites were grossly outnumbered, and there was no real lefty counterpart to the Free Republic (a then - vibrant online community) or to Drudge.

PDP said it is improper for the occupant of the exalted office of the vice president to engage in smear campaign, making unsubstantiated statements to score cheap political points.

Steve Castleton made a great point in our «Getting Your Online Campaign off the Ground» session at the Art of Political Campaigning last week — think of visitors to your website as impulse buyers and design accordingly.

Also published on The Huffington Post Back in the day, a «sit - in» meant just that — taking over a physical space with physical bodies to make a political point.

As former cabinet secretary Lord O'Donnell has pointed out, the main impact of minority government is an increase in backroom political deal - making.

However, the point I'm making is that one could not really prove a theory in political science, but only refute it.

«We were trying to make some serious political points in a slightly edgy and unconventional way, but I was always very clear there was never any intention to cause offence and if anybody was offended by any of it, then I'm sorry,» said Simon in 2006.

I've been asked more than once by political veterans skeptical of the role of blogs and other forms of online citizen activism to point a specific instance in which the Internet made a real difference in a political issue.

If I remember correctly, Spitzer made a particular point of insisting his administration would be blind to political affiliation when hiring, and his appointments office came under fire for not moving quickly enough to suit rank - and - file Democrats in cleaning house of Pataki - era appointees.

The government made it abundantly clear that they were more than happy for those on low incomes to be used as political footballs, in order to achieve nothing less than petty, childish point - scoring.

As National Journal's Alex Treadway pointed out earlier in the day, though, political professionals will be reluctant to embrace online ads as a tool until the online advertising world finds ways to make it easier for consultants to place ads, particularly when they're dealing with many different sites.

Many people have made good points both for and against the stable futures of Pakistan and India, but increasingly the comments have moved away from political analysis and towards what could be considered to be xenophobia, which is a form of debate that Politics In Spires can not support.

I'm not a fan of piggybacking on such achievements in favour of making political points, but there are clear lessons to be learned from it.

One could certainly make the point that in this environment, with a thirsty U.S. Attorney who is willing to investigate what has always been considered «business as usual» in New York State, everyone needs to be extra special careful about navigating and recognizing the boundaries when it comes to political fundraising which (rightly or wrongly) exist for a reason.

Kearney made a pointed reference to her «years of political journalism» in a statement about her new position suggesting she could be jockeying with Nick Robinson to replace Humphrys as the main interviewer on Today.

If Cuomo is hoping to neuter Nixon's talking points, Nixon sees an opportunity in his sudden shifts to make the argument that an actress with no political experience is already an agent of change.

I became a confidant in the political class because I controlled a whole platoon of «psychological warriors», I won and lost some of the battles, at some point I got it right while at another point I got it wrong because I am human, I made friends and seen all sorts of fun.

First, it's a piece of music intended to make a political point about a modern conflict, one inherent in the nature of networked digital communications — authors and copyright holders have long profited from creative works by charging to distribute them, but in a digital world, books, music and movies can be made in unlimited copies and shared essentially for free.