Sentences with phrase «more political efforts»

But more political efforts, like doing away with fusion voting and creating a publicly funded campaign finance system, could still be a tough sell.

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Some have threatened civil disobedience, efforts that are expected to gain more momentum after last month's political upheaval in British Columbia.

«Drawing on its economic strength and a Chinese Communist Party apparatus that is geared towards strategically building stocks of influence across the globe, Beijing's political influencing efforts in Europe are bound to be much more consequential... than those of the Kremlin.»

Greece's political leaders, more accustomed to screaming abuse at each other in parliament, issued an unprecedented joint statement after a day of talks at the president's office backing efforts to reach a deal with creditors.

In an effort to build its relevance to the world outside traditional «Davos man» — the slightly scornful phrase used by political scientist Samuel Huntington to describe attendees, this year's World Economic Forum meeting in Switzerland is pushing to be a little more touchy - feely, for want of a better word.

However, such efforts must also be complemented with a redoubling of Western efforts to support strong political systems and respect for rule of law in the region in order to foster more resilience among regional states to withstand Chinese influence.

In an effort to help plan sponsors and retirement plan professionals communicate more effectively with participants, Invesco Consulting teamed up with the political consultants and word specialists, Maslansky + Partners, to conduct one of the largest, most comprehensive studies of its kind on financial language.

Action: Write to your political reps to demand stronger privacy laws Who is this for: Anyone who cares about privacy, and especially Internet users in North America right now How difficult is it: A bit of effort Tell me more: There appears to be bipartisan appetite among U.S. lawmakers to bring in some form of regulation for Internet companies.

More than three years before he served as Trump's chief political strategist, Bannon helped launch Cambridge Analytica with the financial backing of the wealthy Mercer family as part of a broader effort to create a populist power base.

We need to convert the energy, skills, and grassroots experience and insights of our country's many citizen - based mobilization efforts into more effective political power.

So what was the point of the call? Political optics, obviously — which explains why the PMO's subsequent spin effort was more important than the phone call itself.

While the United Methodists, Presbyterians (USA), Lutherans (ELCA), and others all have «renewal groups» that protest the political captivity of their churches, their efforts seem to amount to little more than that» protest.

In fact, Swift made several decisions that served to counter her influence: She deleted a tweet supporting the Women's March, her political voice was limited to a single «go vote» post and her usual public philanthropic efforts were more muted than in years past.

Hence, some of us continued our education in Western universities but kept alive our hope of being able to contribute to the efforts of articulating our Filipino identity.13 To what extent either group has been successful remains to be seen since, unfortunately, political and economic considerations have overshadowed the more cultural ones.

Teams from the London School of Economics and Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that involvement in organized religion was more effective at producing «sustained happiness» than sports, political groups, charity work or continuing educational efforts.

These words are more than a lyrical garland tossed toward Saul's adherents in an effort to win them (although we do not suppose for a moment that David was unaware of the positive political implications of his public and phenomenally articulate grief).

Evangelical and fundamentalist mission agencies have grown in proportion, while mainline bodies have focused more on assisting indigenous ministries, supplying social services, lobbying for social justice through political channels, and even turning the cultural conduit around by sponsoring reverse missionary programs.14 Viewed from only the American context, it appears that mainstream Protestantism has suffered a serious decline in its missionary efforts.

Second, a greater awareness of the complexity of political judgments and a more honest effort to locate the precise areas of disagreement.

Much more than any unitary socialist system, the threefold system of democratic capitalism — which honors political, economic and moral - cultural freedoms — tends to call forth individual and collective efforts that contribute to the common good.

For generations mainline Protestants have tried to «demythologize» the contents of scriptures and creeds in an effort to gain social and political influence, while dispensationalists have avidly «mythologized» the Bible into ever more incredible systems of belief about the «end times.»

Much more recently (a decade perhaps)-- when one established political party, group, or media outlet — creates another mouthpiece to disseminate its» ideas — this is conversely, and with negative connotation, known as an «astroturf» or artificial group or effort.

The violence in South Sudan has since December 2013 claimed the lives of more than 10000 people - a death toll that is rapidly rising as diplomatic efforts have failed to broker a short - term cessation of hostilities, let alone a longer term political solution.

It is the best organized political movement in the chaotic society and can block Saudi Arabia's efforts to install a more fanatical Wahhabi based regime.

It does not appear to be a good - faith effort to learn more about governments, policies and political processes as defined in the help center.»

The Daily News deems Cuomo's effort to take more control of the MTA a «political gambit» since it comes so late in the session, but then says: «Even political gambits can be meaningful.»

By supporting parties, opinion makers, and other political organizations much of the effort, and most of the knowledge and thinking needed to keep democratic governments more or less responsible can be off - loaded from the general populous.

The Volodin reforms are top - down, bureaucratic - administrative reforms, which appear to be motivated more by efforts to consolidate the speaker's power vertikal, rather than to foster parliamentarians as champions of constituents» concerns and influential political actors in their own right.

And Percoco, who has managed Cuomo's political campaigns for more than a decade and shared an office with Howe during Cuomo's 2014 re-election effort, received at least $ 50,000 in consulting fees from COR that year — something Cuomo has said he did not know.

The political arm of the moderate New Democrat Coalition is adding 10 more challengers to its list of candidates to watch in 2018 — a continued effort to get involved in House races earlier this cycle.

Through the poignant juxtaposition of citizenship and slavery, young people's protest against attacks on their economic activity and more broadly against the employment crisis, reflects their efforts to force their way to political recognition, rather than existing a political space that seems to exclude their voices and needs.

Academics, however, tend to look at the fundamental factors underlying political races, usually putting more weight on basic economic facts and core trends in public opinion than on the transient efforts of campaigns themselves.

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Members of political parties contribute more effort per person to campaigning than supporters do.

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Fiscally conservative groups including Unshackle Upstate argue against public financing for elections as nothing more than «labor's latest effort to enhance their political influence at the expense of taxpayers.»

«There is no more important effort than the protection and expansion of the rights and liberties of the people,» said Richard Brodsky, a political scientist at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a former assemblyman who is working with other groups supporting a convention.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) vowed that the coalition of Democratic state officials would continue to oppose President TrumpDonald John TrumpMexican presidential candidate vows to fire back at Trump's «offensive» tweets Elizabeth Warren urges grads to fight for «what is decent» in current political climate Jim Carrey takes aim at Kent State grad who posed with AR - 10 MORE's efforts to ban travel from nations the administration says do not meet information - sharing requirements, calling the ban «discriminatory.»

And for all his vaunted political savvy, Lasher seems to have served as little more than a handmaiden to this effort.

No matter what happens to the party itself, the city's political firmament, due in part to the WFP's efforts, is much more liberal than it once was.

But meanwhile, we cede the electoral centre ground to the Tories, who everyday take efforts to decontaminate themselves and make themselves more palatable to the «struggling middle» who hold no ideological or party political affiliation.

He touted his club's efforts two years ago to run 70 people for an even more obscure political office called county committee, and promises to bring the vitality of his organization to local elected office.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has renewed his effort to recruit a challenger to his political nemesis, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, next year as the «smell of blood» from widening corruption probes has left de Blasio more vulnerable than ever, anonymous «top Democrats» tell Fred Dicker.

The British Conservatives, who have pledged to leave the EPP after the elections, are likely to struggle in their efforts to satisfy parliamentary rules which demand that political groups must be formed of MEPs from seven of more countries.

«The Lewiston Queenston is a better option for the following reasons: the Peace Bridge currently has a high political profile because of bridge expansion efforts, the Lewiston Queenston is situated in a lower residential population density area and has more area for conducting inspections when exiting customs,» the state official wrote.

Healey's also kept a busy political schedule, traveling throughout the state and the nation to support Democrats up and down the ticket, including Democratic female attorney general candidates through the Democratic Attorneys General Association's 1881 Initiative, an effort to elect more female state attorneys general, which Healey co-chairs.

Topics during the Q&A portion of his press conference included the looming discontinuance of the Rockaway ferry, a broad consideration of his earlier statement about «righting greater wrongs,» what happened to government funding for a ferry obtained by Anthony Weiner and Joe Addabbo, whether there is any City effort to «track down scammers» in the Build it Back program, how satisfied de Blasio is with the pace of Build it Back, whether an updated evacuation plan is contemplated in conjunction with increasing the housing supply in Rockaway and a government memo reported by The Wave which stated that more money was available from FEMA than publicly acknowledged and that such additional funding could be a political liability.

Highlighting the political giving of 61 billionaires who have contributed more than $ 200 million to political efforts in recent years, the group is worried that money could impact the convention.

Under the supervision of the governor's staff, the groups intend to raise more than $ 1 million for a media blitz, hire a powerful political consultant close to the Cuomo administration and deploy field organizers to the districts of more than a dozen key lawmakers to drum up support, according to interviews with those involved in the effort.

The inquiry revolved around two of Mr. de Blasio's big - money political supporters and appeared to extend into his fund - raising efforts more broadly.

But he said passage of the millionaires tax or congestion pricing should not stop efforts to make subways more affordable — a move he said could make congestion pricing a «powerful political argument.»