Sentences with phrase «national political points»

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To Petersan, tonight's episode is a chance to help prove her political point on a national stage, the same thing her business does locally every day.

Many people point to the National Flood Insurance Program, which was created to boost financial resilience in flood zones, but has been criticized from just about every political and technical vantage point as too often working to subsidize, instead of mitigate, vulnerability.

Titled «Talking Point Embassy of U.S. in Colombia as Political Post for Ambassadorship,» the memo says the ambassadorship is «no ordinary post, but one with a major U.S. national security interest.»

(CQ: http://moneyline.cq.com and National Institute on Money in State Politics: http://www.followthemoney.org) In addition, FedEx scored just 42.9 out of 100 points in the 2013 CPA - Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Accountability and Disclosure, placing it near the bottom of a ranking of the 196 largest U.S. companies.

As Rock Health points out, investors don't seem fazed by the uncertainty around national healthcare reform and political volatility.

National data pointed to continued strength in the Spanish economy but a loss of momentum in France, as French consumers reined in their spending, probably due to political uncertainty in the run - up to the country's presidential election.

Reihan Salam points us to a National Journa l article about how the Democrats have used the Ryan budget to their political advantage.

On the face of it, these points seem as relevant to America's current travails as they were to Rome's fall and certainly more so than either the utopianism of much modern political theory, or its opposite: a frankly self - interested perspective concerned only with national interests and national security.

A «renewed national covenant» is a promising starting point for pondering political order after liberalism.

In the period between the two World Wars, a Scottish Home rule movement was established and in 1934 the Scottish National Party was born, but it was only in the last thirty years that the appetite for political autonomy grew to the point where a devolved Parliament was created in 1998 and met for the first time the following year.

As user4012 pointed out, this brand of extremism, which doesn't have political goals that fall into more established political boundaries (literal national boundaries), saw decades of high - amount and high - level funding from the Saudis, primarily, to build up to this point.

The former boss for the National Commission for Civic Education also pointed out that all political parties are actively involved in the electoral process, and an extension of the scope to foreign countries should not affect the contributions of the parties.

As National Journal's Alex Treadway pointed out earlier in the day, though, political professionals will be reluctant to embrace online ads as a tool until the online advertising world finds ways to make it easier for consultants to place ads, particularly when they're dealing with many different sites.

I want to point out that the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling has turned the previously strict barrier preventing foreign nationals from donating to US political campaigns into a virtual sieve.

He dared his critics whom he called «Political quantity surveyors» to point out any of the projects which is irrelevant to national development.

A Siena College / Syracuse Post-Standard poll conducted nearly a week ago showed Katko with a 10 - point lead in the race, and national political analysts have declared the race between Katko and Maffei a toss - up.

That reality prompted, as part of the Osogbo conference agenda, the idea of federalizing political parties, along geo - political lines, with local demands driving each party's national charter, though with APC as case - point.

It seemed like a potential political turning point in 2015 when opposition leaders won a majority of seats in the National Assembly, dealing a blow to Maduro.

Another point, outlined in FEC's outline of restrictions on foreign nationals, is that a US subsidiary of a foreign corporation can engage political activity provided it is not directed or financed by the foreign parent entity.

In a letter to Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire seen by openDemocracy, Scottish National Party MP Martin Doherty - Hughes says that the public should know who funded the DUP's Brexit campaign — and points out that the Secretary of State has the power to publish all political donations since 1 January 2014 under legislation that is already on the statute books, but which has never been enacted.

National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) spokeswoman Joanna Burgos responded to Biden's comments saying, «It's incredibly tasteless and offensive for the vice president to stoop to this level just to score political points.

Citing outside money from national Republicans and a recent poll showing U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei with an eight - point lead over Republican challenger John Katko, two political forecasters have changed its rating of the 24th Congressional District race.

On Tuesday, ClearPath Action Fund, a political action committee that supports a «free market» approach to climate change, announced it will distribute a direct mail piece in response to a press conference Democratic candidate Mike Derrick and the Sierra Club held Monday to discuss Stefanik's score of 9 out of 100 points on the League of Conservation Voters National Environmental scorecard.

ALBANY — A day after attacking Donald Trump on national TV, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman moved to score political points off a pending case involving the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.

He continued: «There will be calls for a «government - of national unity», to get political adversaries round a table working - together rather than pointing fingers at each other.

When all is said and done and shot, national / political motivation and even survival are beside the point.

Once upon a time, I pointed out (surely the most - quoted thing I've ever written) that «national testing» was a political non-starter because Democrats don't like testing and Republicans don't like «national.»

Thus, while many observers have pointed to the increased potency of the state as a political actor in educational policy, 251 the role of states in interpreting national legislation has been treated less extensively.

Not all the Alabama data points can be readily identified, but the National Education Data Model recommends 400 data points on each child including health, family income, political persuasion, and philosophical factors.

Today, they are a political rallying point of opposition for a multitude of special - interest groups that claim that they are the first step toward a national government - run curriculum, will generate an increase in standardized tests and / or unfairly link teacher performance to the results of just one test.

You win political points by pushing an agenda that's a national agenda, and saying in New Jersey, in one of the most difficult, well - organized, union states — teachers» unions — you got to push this teacher incentive pay.

Artist and illustrator Magnus Bard, wellknown from his pointed and thought - provoking political satires in the national newspaper Dagens Nyheter and from many book illustrations, presents drawings, collages and sketches.

Stemming from her South American heritage and migration to Europe, Calero constructs social spaces that use sensory engagement as a democratic entry point for audiences to investigate socio - political themes of cultural representation and national identity.

The National Art Gallery marked a turning point for Pakistani contemporary art, but political unrest compels a pioneering curator to take the show on the road.

Two points: 1) An update on the Lamar Smith affair (which I continue to regard as a politically motivated witchhunt): «About 600 scientists and engineers, including former employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have signed on to letters urging the head of that agency, Kathryn Sullivan, to push back against political interference in science.

But the point is that, while people shriek that interests corrupt, it's not just profits and careers that are being established on the back of climate change anxiety — an entire climate change industry and national and international political institutions are being constructed with the objective of changing the way we live.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is a case in point; their funding has been subjected to more political reversals than I can keep track of.

Delvigne is an important judgment from the point of view of constitutional law, the political nature of Union citizenship and the role played by the Court of Justice in reviewing increasingly large areas of national law.

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Whether this is a positive thing or a negative thing for the broader political and social sphere is something I'm planning to ask Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo and Vivian Schiller, the head of digital for NBC News and the former CEO of National Public Radio.

Student organizers of the protest told ABC News» «This Week» Co-Anchor Martha Raddatz on Sunday that they are determined to use protests and political action to make the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida, a turning point in the national debate over gun control.

Practical effect In the political context, the National Apology has become a significant point of reference.