Sentences with phrase «makes things political»

Facebook shares are still dropping after its worst one - day decline since 2012 yesterday, as data breaches affecting over 50 million uses makes things political and the social media giant loses some...

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It's against this background, seething with political and family rivalries, that VW made its ill - fated 2005 move to crack open the U.S. market with «Clean Diesel,» the Next Big Thing.

He was talking about the things about the US political system that worried him - mostly the level of animus in the US Congress and it's inability to make compromises leading to incrementalism.

If now - President Trump wants to do things right, he needs to wait and consider all the various political and economic dynamics at stake before he makes another mistake trying to do a «deal» in an industry that he knows nothing about.

Chris Tolles, CEO of forum website Topix, says making changes could «dent things in a way that you did not intend,» and in a way that was colored by whatever political administration was in place.

The Chinese missile project «was one of the things that really made people say «Turkey is shifting, wow,»» said Mehmet Soylemez, an Asian studies specialist at the Institute for Social and Political Researches, an independent research group in Ankara.

Enter the political outsider, President - elect Donald Trump, ready to shake things up and make a clean break from his predecessor in every way imaginable.

But whether Cambridge really discovered some powerful new digital techniques, or whether it was made up of relatively ordinary political consultants with a penchant for hyperbolic rhetoric, things didn't end well for either Cambridge or SCL — both are shutting down, the Journal reports.

Commitment and consistency are a very powerful forces that kick in with particularly strong force when people do things like making a public statement about something like a stock price or a political issue.

Sounds like he makes things up on the spot to push a political or anti-religion agenda.

But the beautiful thing about it, in terms of the «Party Party,» is because we don't have a specific political agenda, we get to contribute to the political atmosphere in a non-political way by making it partier — by improving our attitudes.

«Having one thing in common, whether it be a belief or enthusiasm or hobby or political mission, does not make you immune, individually or as a class, to all the other ridiculous social baggage humans carry with them all the time.

Religion is a corporate and political structure bent on destroying things that help the most vulnerable in society with no guarantee of filling the void.They claim they can do it better, but since you can not make people be charitable and so many megachurches are focused on the bottom line, I don't see how this is going to pain out.

Given their enormous political power over the rest of us, we need politicians who have the God - fearing character and integrity to do the right thing every time a decision must be made, regardless of the consequences, regardless of the sacrifices he (and we) will have to make.This is God's world, not ours.

They commit acts of violence in the name of God (nutjob anti-abortion groups), commit acts of fraud in the name of God, use God's name for political gain, and then turn their backs on the core principles of Jesus — caring for one another, compassion, helping those less fortunate, giving of yourself to do good, to make things better.

Your people had no money, no resources, no political power to make things better.

Oh that there were some way to make the church look like Jesus rather than like so many of the things it often resembles — A club, a political organization, a group with an agenda that often seems to not include loving people.

No, Jesus, when pressed to use his authority to make a political point said simply, «Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's.»

He wants to see them do five things: «Initiate a focused approach to the claims of Islam; make a political and cultural analysis of the unique impact of the Islamic evangelization of black males; approach Islam on theological and evangelical levels; assess the geopolitical and strategic implications of Islam in Africa and South Asia, since the fortunes of black people in the U.S. are informed by what happens to blacks elsewhere In the world; and, mount a major effort to investigate the success of Islam in prisons.

When a person exhibits too much passion over anything — God, a political movement, the latest in tattoos or a popular television show — we label that person as obsessive or compulsive, and mutter, «Get a life» Might we better understand zeal as Isaiah does, as the prerogative of God, who, despite the mess we've made of things, still chooses to care for this battered creation and our faulty selves?

But one thing is certain, and it appears to me that its recognition in theory, and acceptance in practice, must be the sine qua non of any valid discussion and effective action affecting the political, economic and moral ordering of the present world: this is that nothing, absolutely nothing — we may as well make up our minds to it — can arrest the progress of social Man towards ever greater interdependence and cohesion.

AND And teaches us to say yes And allows us to be both - and And keeps us from either - or And teaches us to be patient and long suffering And is willing to wait for insight and integration And keeps us from dualistic thinking And does not divide the field of the moment And helps us to live in the always imperfect now And keeps us inclusive and compassionate toward everything And demands that our contemplation become action And insists that our action is also contemplative And heals our racism, our sexism, heterosexism, and our classism And keeps us from the false choice of liberal or conservative And allows us to critique both sides of things And allows us to enjoy both sides of things And is far beyond any one nation or political party And helps us face and accept our own dark side And allows us to ask for forgiveness and to apologize And is the mystery of paradox in all things And is the way of mercy And makes daily, practical love possible And does not trust love if it is not also justice And does not trust justice if it is not also love And is far beyond my religion versus your religion And allows us to be both distinct and yet united And is the very Mystery of Trinity

If political representatives can say the same thing (as what's in the declaration) and it's permissable for the group to post their beliefs on their website, then I think it should be OK for Apple to sell an app that does nothing more than make the declaration available by a different path.

Setting that aside, here's the thing: If we are ultimately to make no distinction between genders, then the Kantian imperatives of our contemporary political culture mean that we must ultimately start screening all soldiers (male and female) for pregnancy, for to require only those with female anatomy to undergo such would seem to me to be a sign of cissexism, transphobia, etc., etc., etc..

It withdraws protection from the weak and vulnerable, allowing the strong to define the status and rights of the weak; it privatizes matters which, in any legitimate political order, must be public in nature; it sets innumerable roadblocks to the rectification of the problem through mutual deliberation of citizens in legislative assemblies; and it has made what used to be its most loyal citizens — religious believers — enemies of the common good whenever their convictions touch upon public things.

The Department of Education is unnecessary; since 1980, it has just been an opportunity for lobbyists and bureaucrats to interfere, to invent new regulations, to make political «contributions» to further such things as unwanted textbook imposition in a school system.

There is a proper political process that makes things different, and it's the lawyers, politicians and local grassroots efforts that do the most here.

Erik March 2nd: «But, one thing I do know: the skipper of a private sectarian school, in a conservative state, the program's winningest coach (529 -358-1 -LRB-.596)-RRB-, and one of four active managers to have 500 wins, isn't about to get fired for being a jerk or for making a snarky political comment.

I am sick and tired of listening to how great Arsenal is Arsenal have to prove on the pitch that they are great ant thing else is just noise annoying noise the reality of the matter we are below the tenth position in the premier league and this political noise dose not make any difference what so ever to our standing in fact it devises our club into small segments the for the against and the in betweeners and the essence of a strong club its in its unity and hard work in proving to the masses that this club is a great club because of it unity its work and ethics and remember how we got here and the principles behind it

Is was probably the most pontless thing I have ever done in terms of political thinking and policy making.

She's cold, uncharismatic, introverted: all things which should disable a political career and which make it doubly impressive that she has come so far.

There is only one thing we could do that would make the whole system, teetering as it is, go over the top, and that is to relax the rules on advertising for political parties and candidates.

If we can change the culture of how people communicate and make this an extra outside - the - party thing, political discourse will get better.»

Political theory should always be tactical, and seek out multiple routes so that if one thing doesn't work in one place, you might be able to make progress somewhere else.

The most important thing is that analysing past elections & predicting future elections is ridiculous, since electoral reform will hopefully change the political parties and the political process anyway, to make them more responsive to the genuine majority view, instead of the tribal attitude we see when Paul suggests that we should keep FPTP as the best way of electing a Labour government.

The political paradox Europe faces right now is this: some or all of these things are needed for the existing countries in the eurozone to make their currency work, but it may take Greek exit to make it happen.

Their failure to mount the slightest objection was scathingly attacked in an article by Nick Cohen in the Observer newspaper: «I don't think anyone who believed that a Labour government would make life slightly better for the poor could read the record of the meeting without embarrassed disgust... It was left to Damian Green — a Tory man, of all things — to ask them if it was for this that they spent «years in the political wilderness as Labour activists, hoping to become members of Parliament.»

For one thing, people tend to make political decisions based on the opinions of friends and family, and how they react to a scandal or other negative event may be filtered through what's said by people they trust.

David Runciman argues that «political parties are founded on the assumption that most people don't care enough about politics to do the things that would make a difference: they have to be corralled into the political arena and then bribed to stay there long enough to effect change».

Speaking on Multi TV's political talk show, Majority Caucus, the Deputy Minister said the NPP «prides itself in having struck crude oil and even sometimes they make the mistake of saying that they were the first to have done it, forgetting that these things had happened in the past.

What followed is pretty illustrative of the value of such pledges: his political opponents made some hay out of it for a while, late - night comedians had a field day with it, and then some other news happened and everybody pretty much forgot the whole thing.

Looking at the crossbreaks though is a salient reminder of why things like this don't really make much difference to voting intentions — people see them through the prism of their pre-existing political views.

Steve Greenberg, political analyst and spokesman for Siena College polling, says nearly three decades later, things are different, and politically, Andrew Cuomo is making the smart choice.

«His dad made a major point of being unable to run because he had to handle things in Albany,» said Gerald Benjamin, a longtime professor of political science at SUNY New Paltz.

«The one thing they've got in their favour which they never had before is the opportunity to make the political weather,» he says.

«I would never have called it politics at the time, but it was things like campaigning against third world debt, campaigns to make trade fair, the Jubilee 2000 campaign that kind of thing — that was really my political apprenticeship, if you want to call it that.»

«Films can do many things, they can entertain, terrify, they can make us laugh and tell us something about the real world we live in - sorry it's early for a political speech - and in that real world it's getting darker and in the struggle that is coming between rich and poor and the wealthy and the privileged and the big corporations and politicians who speak for them.»

«There are many things a good electoral system should do, but the most fundamental is ensuring that how people have voted is broadly reflected in the make - up of Parliament... We use an electoral system designed for there being just two political parties, when in reality we have a multi-party system.»

After the mistrial, Menendez's political adviser, Mike Soliman, said «all things indicate» the senator will run for re-election and an announcement will probably be made in the coming weeks.

I think very many people find that frustrating, that at Prime Minister's Questions there's often very little attempt made to answer the questions at all, things are very partisan, hugely political, but as I said the tone is set by the Prime Minister, the event reflects his or her personality, and our job as opposition politicians, we can't set that tone.