Sentences with phrase «more political side»

Everything works as it should, and all that's left to figure out is the more political side of the feature.

Not exact matches

«After years in which Republicans were more confident than Democrats in debating gun - control questions, the issue now energizes each side's coalition,» political analyst Ron Brownstein wrote in the National Journal in January.

While their first meeting at the Florida resort was hailed as a «high point» in relations between the two leaders, this summit promises to be more challenging as the two men struggle with heavy political baggage on both sides.

As more business leaders take a stand on fraught political issues, some find they pay a price by angering consumers on the other side.

They make Cambridge sound rather more like an ordinary political consulting firm from the shadier side of the business.

As the Astra Zeneca Pfizer deal gets more bad tempered and political, what are the side effects of this massive drug firm deal?

Obviously they didn't have any institutional memory either, but they were more explicitly oriented toward the political side.

The other side of the picture, and at the moment the far more important side, is that, while there have been real wounds, there are today powerful men in our country who specialize in reopening those wounds, not to help them to heal more completely, but for quite other purposes — to gain a partisan political advantage or to secure personal publicity; but most often in order to discredit by insinuation, if not by direct charges, all who believe in some changes in the economic order.

Back in 2008 - 09, when so many on both sides were saying that Obama's (and the Democrats») big victory signaled a new birth of PROGRESSIVE REFORM, I said that he's going to be little more than a blip in our political history.

Borrowing definitions from J. S. Furnivall, the editors thought pluralism was comprised of «two or more elements which live side by side, yet without mingling, in one political unit.»

It is hard to say what political side Biden is on, there was a time I thought he was a pretty sharp guy but that was before I saw and read more about him, it's a shame his mouth isn't connected to his brain.

Perhaps higher education would cost less and be more effective if we stopped wasting money on non-essential junk like this... on every side of the socio - political spectrum.

By a plural society is meant one «comprising two or more elements or social orders which live side by side, yet without mingling, in one political unit» (Politics in Plural Societies: A Theory of Democratic Instability, by Alvin Rabushka and Kenneth A. Shepsle [Merrill, 1972].

As the divine right monarchy came increasingly in the eighteenth century to defend its positions on the grounds of administrative reason and enlightened reform, the discourse of those resisting its rule also relied less on traditional religious appeals and more on secular ones, but the religious roots of all sides of the political and social debate were only obscured, never severed.

Or, try the ongoing series detailing Obama's online campaign in 2008 if you're more into the political side of things.

She offered a much more powerful and exciting sense of the possibilities of political life than I was getting, even from the communitarians in the liberal - communitarian debate, and certainly more so than the liberals, who are less committed to the public side of politics.

[59][60] Political commentators identified Clegg's leadership as promoting a shift to the radical centre in the Liberal Democrats, bringing more emphasis to the economically liberal side of social liberalism.

Sen. Bob Menendez got a hand from colleagues on both sides of the political aisle in his corruption trial Thursday, with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and fellow New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker testifying that he is... Read More

The Senate's troop of notaries includes more than the political staffers one might expect to do side work on campaigns.

Cuomo and Miner have had their political differences in the past, but Miner spokesman Alexander Marion said «as she does before supporting any policy initiative, the mayor wanted to learn more about all sides of the issue.»

Had the judiciary not stood up to be counted, these gentlemen would be walking free, they and several others waiting in the wings from all sides of the political divide, emboldened by deliberate Executive inaction, to perpetrate even more dastardly acts on air.»

Gove's more pugilistic side may have softened since his time as education secretary — you'll no longer find him using military metaphors and pledging to vanquish «the enemies of promise», in public, at least — but he clearly retains his impulse for confronting the inertia of the political establishment.

However, as the wants of the party members fall more and more out of step with what the 99 percent of people who do not belong to a political party desire, it will become more and more difficult for the leaders of said parties to satisfy both sides of the equation.

That is a very different sort of smear, of a type that New Labour has in my view tended to favour over the years and one that has become, I think, more common on all sides as political debate has become less and less philosophically agonistic and more and more about branding.

The unfortunate aspect is that if one side of the equation has to be sacrificed, the disappointment is far greater or of more political significance than the pleasure felt at the achievement of the other side.

Considering the fact that Weiner's on - line sextcapades cost him his political career, perhaps NY - 9 residents, who tend to be a bit more on the conservative side in certain areas, would be ready to elect a woman — even if that woman isn't straight.

Attorneys on both sides of the political corruption case will deliver closing arguments — each of which are expected to last more than an hour — starting at 9 a.m..

«Let's all join with Buhari and Bola Tinubu side - by - side to make the APC stronger and more attractive for other generations to use as a vehicle for political emancipation.»

He'd been touched by scandal, but he'd also been described, more than once, as Teflon — a rare immovable object in Albany's raucous political climate, thorn in the side of governors and mayors who'd long since come and gone.

The political feud continued with more barbs between the two sides after Cuomo's press conference Thursday.

The faults are on all sides of the political divide, even if the anti-immigrant right appears to be more culpable on this occasion.

A lobbying organization encouraging state lawmakers to raise more money for transportation projects is citing this week's election as a sign that the political momentum is on its side.

«My colleagues are choosing to side with the Comptroller because he has a «D' after his name, rather than the County Executive who has an «R.» The result will be borrowing that costs taxpayers $ 900,000 more, all for political gain at the expense of everyday people's pocketbooks,» said Minority Leader John J. Mills, R - Orchard Park.

Less party political chicanery please, and more consistent, responsible, intelligent and grown up politics from our MPs, especially the ones who are now on the other side of the House.

In Tower Hamlets, Rajeev Syal adds that more than 150 police officers have been counted outside the building by political activists, along side more than 300 young, mainly Bangladeshi men.

De Blasio can't make a traditional outer - borough white - ethnic - resentment play: He lives in Park Slope, worked for David Dinkins and Hillary Clinton, and, despite his last name, is more Upper West Side than Bensonhurst in his political beliefs.

Although efforts to provide real career opportunities for more scientists would create stronger incentives for Americans to seek science careers, the political momentum appears to be on the side of granting more H - 1B visas.

The researchers found that men in survey and experimental data were more likely than women to avoid cross-party political discussion, to judge political arguments based solely on what party is advancing them, and to form strong political opinions about the opposite party's positions without actually listening to the other side's reasoning.

But Kahan believes that the curious from both sides of the political and cultural divide should make good ambassadors to the more doctrinaire members of their own groups.

I wanted to see more of the political game with Mary, yet the softer side of the Queen and her relationship with Raleigh was an intriguing emotional look at royal life.

Maybe the political side will bore some peoples, but it makes the drama of the movie so much more plausible.

I have perhaps too MANY passions all clamoring for time, whether it be writing or political reform or embracing energy renewal and addressing the issues of food scarcity (I guess those are political too though my focus is more on the tech side of it).

The Other Side (PG for mature subject matter and mild epithets) Political science documentary examining how the American people have become more Balkanized than ever before.

While co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine) wring tension and suspense from the same - day build - up to the match, the match itself — captured by grainy, fuzzy TV cameras with the occasional, ground - level insert — and the immediate aftermath (symbolic and figurative, more than real or long - lasting), it's in the months - long lead - up to the match, following Billie Jean King (Emma Stone, never better) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) where Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

All too often in «7 Days in Entebbe,» primary characters on all sides of this 1970s period - piece political thriller state the obvious — and then state it again, and then have to stand around while someone else states the obvious one more time, just in case the folks in the seats have yet to grasp the stakes at hand and the dilemmas in play.

I also think there's still an interesting story here about how the process of television news broke down in such a way that people stopped asking if the story that ended Rather's career was true or not, focusing more on the political slant on both sides of the issue.

With the increasingly high stakes generated by inclusion under the Race to the Top, people have intensively searched the existing research evidence — sometimes with the intent of understanding the potential impacts but perhaps more frequently with an eye to supporting one or the other political side.

(No cul - de-sac left behind...) If the nation's soccer moms suddenly found themselves fighting on the same side as urban black and Latino momma bears, the political calculation for the Democratic Party would suddenly get a lot more complicated.

The CEP has also debunked some of the more intemperate claims about NCLB that have arisen from both sides of the political aisle.

More fundamental new governance ideas from both sides of the political spectrum also have flaws, from even more open town - meeting style control of schools on the left to total abandonment of governance in preference for market mechanisms on the riMore fundamental new governance ideas from both sides of the political spectrum also have flaws, from even more open town - meeting style control of schools on the left to total abandonment of governance in preference for market mechanisms on the rimore open town - meeting style control of schools on the left to total abandonment of governance in preference for market mechanisms on the right.