Sentences with phrase «marriage as a bargaining chip»

If you'll remember, a deal between Smith and the «gang of three» (Diaz, Kruger, and Espada) fell apart when Smith decided his moral standing would be reduced by bargaining away civil rights because the deal hinged on same - sex marriage as a bargaining chip.

But it's only right now a «potential» majority because three «rogue» Democrats, Sen. Carl Kruger, Sen. - elect Pedro Espada Jr., and Sen. Ruben Diaz, all Democrats, are conservative on social issues and at least one has admitted using same - sex marriage as a bargaining chip with Democratic leader Malcolm Smith (pictured, above).

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When couples show up to marriage counseling with intimacy problems, you can almost always be sure than one or the other has departed from the proper perspective and begun using their spouse or using seex as a bargaining chip for power or control in the relationship.

Last week it was reported that the deal, which might have made a technical Democratic majority in the Senate into a solid one, had sacrificed a vote on same - sex marriage in the coming session by using it as a bargaining chip.

Cuomo has also craftily stirred other major issues, including legislative redistricting and gay marriage, into the mix periodically — in part because he wants them resolved, but also as bargaining chips or signal - senders to constituencies.

[ANONYMOUS LISTSERVE COMMENT]: «I haven't seen any research on this... However, in 20 + years of experience working with divorced families, I have no doubt that fathers who were pretty hands - off during the marriage become much more active and involved during the divorce and that, fortunately, many of them sustain this involvement in the post-divorce period... cynical dads who are concerned with punishing their ex, using the children as a bargaining chip, or reducing their exposure to child support [are unlikely] to convincingly and consistently sustain such playacting for any period of time.»