Sentences with phrase «more as political statements»

The one house budgets are viewed more as political statements from the two parties, more than actual policy.

The inclusion of the two New Yorkers — who chair the policy and communications centers — underlines the reality that all presidential budget proposals are designed more as political statements than an actual realistic budget that the Congress will consider and pass.

Not exact matches

«For more than four years, the government of Ecuador has offered to cooperate in facilitating the questioning of Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, as well as proposing other political and legal measures, in order to reach a satisfactory solution for all parties involved in the legal case against Julian Assange, to end the unnecessary delays in the process and to ensure full and effective legal protection, Ecuador said in a statement, Press Association reported.

No... People may now more commonly USE «Happy Holidays» or «Season's Greetings» let's not go so far as to make a blanket statement that they PREFER it... Political correctness has been pounded people to such an extent that they avoid «Merry Christmas» at all cost.

But the «Catholic» hope for Christian politics always acknowledged the reality of sin, too; and Tinder's more vigorous rejection of political hope may be a useful antidote to secular optimism even if it is not (as I think his not) a true statement of human possibilities.

The NPR link covers topics such as an FBI agent allegedly calling Trump an «idiot» and making «political statements» (here I guess it would depend on the context if it is acceptable), the FBI somehow making mistakes with the Clinton email investigation (here the accusations would need to be a lot more concrete), to the FBI investigating Russian interference.

Nick Braden, spokesman for the nonprofit American Public Power Association, which represents more than 2,000 community - owned electric utilities, said in a statement that as government bodies, public utilities have an inherent political character and that knowing how to «operate within a political structure» is useful.

The stakes in Beirut are deadly serious, but the film itself is not presented as a major political statement or commentary beyond: The more things change, the more they stay the same.

With that picture, and 2011's «Another Earth,» Marling's announced herself as a major voice in genre filmmaking, but for her follow - up with Batmanglij, it looks like they've opted for a more expansive, unsettling experience, with urban political statements cross-bred with an escalating sense of doom.

With Pedro Almodovar announced as jury president, it will be interesting to see if he continues the trend of ambivalent Cannes juries who seem to be more interested in making political statements.

What's more, it takes some stretch of the imagination to excuse it as satire, considering the distinct lack of any real political statement underpinning the whole thing.

The development of the Pennsylvania Core Standards signifies more of a political statement in response to perceptions of federal meddling in state issues (at least as according to news reports at the time).

Written accounts may be more, or less reliable depending on the likely bias of the writer, cui bono, eg the public statements of political leaders as players are more suspect than their private correspondence to a trusted associate.

Data correlating «ordinary science intelligence» (as measured by a standard nine - question test), political ideology, and tendency to agree with the statement «there is «solid evidence» of recent global warming due «mostly» to «human activity such as burning fossil fuels»» suggests that conservative Republicans become less likely to agree with the scientific consensus on climate change the more educated they are.

But more importantly it would leave the society as a whole to objectively administer the first position statement on free and open communication, particularly to insure that scientists with deferring positions on critical issues have the ability «to present their findings to the scientific community, policy makers, the media, and the public without censorship, intimidation, or political interference is imperative.»

It is as if they are not sure how to combine the quite precise statements of science with a set of more contested political interpretations.

For example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather than in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before them.

(Mark Graber in 2004 revisited Tocqueville's thesis; he argued the statement was not as true as Tocqueville said, but may be more true in current times than it was during the Jacksonian Period in which Tocqueville was writing, as more political questions first get resolved into constitutional questions).

Perhaps they remain unintentionally ignorant because articles like this one, which has no research support for its main ideas, in turn is cited in other «literature» as «Lamb» — a name which implies there is an on - point research finding underlying a footnoted statement, not just another article with more unsupported hypothesizing and political drip.