Sentences with phrase «more by political agendas»

Not exact matches

There are already plenty of examples of wealthy individuals attempting to advance their political agendas by supporting unaccountable lobby groups, as was the case with Calgary's infamous Sprawl Cabal «s plans to throw more than $ 1 million behind Preston Manning «s «Municipal Governance Initiative,» and the anonymous donors behind the shady «St. Albert Think Tank.»

Austin argues that this is only the case for state - directed enterprises, which do operate according to a more prominent political agenda by the state.

If anything, some U.S. analysts have argued that the November 4 midterms represented more a vote against Washington gridlock than the endorsement of the political agenda advocated by the Republicans.

They are motivated instead by nothing more than the desire to see a particular political agenda prevail, but they pretend to be the bearers of some mighty revelation, vouchsafed to them alone, leading one and all to a bright new world of greater inclusiveness and sensitivity.

The manual begins with an uncontentious definition: «Lobbying is the process of seeking to influence government and its institutions by informing the public policy agenda» or, rather more succinctly, «the art of political persuasion».

But the mayor also said that his outburst last year, in which he accused the governor of shortchanging his political agenda out of a desire for «revenge,» was far from spontaneous, calling the diatribe the result of more than a year's worth of mounting tensions and slights by the governor against de Blasio.

«Cats are not political — they come in all colours of black, white, ginger and many more — yet politicians from all parties can improve their lives immeasurably by tackling some of our 2022 Agenda priorities.»

led by our noses by Western (climate) scientists who have less of a scientific agenda and more of a political agenda.

«I don't see a lot of the green initiatives that are being talked about being supported by scientific data, but more supported by political agendas.»»

There is a big difference between a private company employing a leading expert, and the IPCC employing a political activist who reviewed and published his own work grey literature (non peer reviewed) which amounted to little more than an advert for his own industry and by doing so helped push the IPCC's political agenda and fill his own bank balance, but also failed to provide any independent scientific evidence of a way forward.

Here we have the empirical proof that the positivist should welcome: institutional science is evidentially more easily influenced by politics than are an array of independent researchers, whether or not they are scientifically trained, because they are free to speak out of turn without fear; institutional science can not check itself for political prejudice and deviation from scientific consensus; climate sceptics can and do successfully challenge institutional science; the problems of the climate debate are problems caused absolutely and entirely by the excesses of institutional science and its proximity to political agendas.

By early 2004, it had stopped once more and it is unclear whether the project will be completed, although the scheme remained firmly on the political agenda.