Sentences with phrase «meant as a political statement»

And it undeniably plays differently in the wake of worker strikes today for «A Day Without Immigrants» and greater divides between the working class and the President of the United States than when the film premiered at Toronto last year (which is not meant as a political statement, just a fact, and not an alternative one).

DRAR says the move is «not meant as a political statement».

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As he told the Times, he does not mean for this to be a political statement against Trump, but rather he wants to push back against the «dark forces that have been awakened» by the election.

A statement can identify a candidate not only by stating the candidate's name but also by other means such as showing a picture of the candidate, referring to political party affiliations, or other distinctive features of a candidate's platform or biography.

Even if he presents himself as a liberal and vocalizes this by making vocal political statements periodically during his QB tenure, does it mean he can not be effective as a QB?

«Extortion» in this case is political hyperbole and not necessarily meant as a statement of fact - ie North Korea was literally extorting money from the US.

Saraki in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu on Sunday in Abuja said that security agencies, political and religious leaders must work for the promotion of dialogue as means for tackling agitations, to ensure peace in the country.

This doesn't mean all art has to carry a positive reaction; a negative one can be just as powerful, but just because an artwork carries a conceptual thought or political statement does not mean that it has to negate any sensory impact or relationship with the viewer.

The gallery's statement reads: «The artist employs surface effects that exploit prettiness as a means of enchantment to lead her spectators onto the most virulent and radical terrain of political meaning.

With the new museum building as backdrop, each of its 15 artists uses the vocabularies of «division, articulation, support and structure,» as noted in the show's curatorial statement, as a means to access a myriad of other topics — cultural, political, environmental, personal.

... a breathtaking dash through personal hypocrisy, factual inaccuracy and political rhetoric... it's very hard to interpret this as a statement made in good faith... a clearer example of disinformation could not be wished for... excellent means to give a misleading impression of uncertainty... shortsighted vision and moral bankruptcy... a shameless call to narrow self - interest... Professor Curry advocates unwise policy based on false claims and bankrupt morals.

Cruelty as entertainment, human sacrifice to indulge superstition, slavery as a labor - saving device, conquest as the mission statement of government, genocide as a means of acquiring real estate, torture and mutilation as routine punishment, the death penalty for misdemeanors and differences of opinion, assassination as the mechanism of political succession, rape as the spoils of war, pogroms as outlets for frustration, homicide as the major form of conflict resolution — all were unexceptionable features of life for most of human history.