Sentences with phrase «of political dysfunction»

In this time of political dysfunction, that's no small thing.

«The harsh reminder of political dysfunction is about to begin again in earnest,» says Jonathan Citrin, founder of investment advisory Citrin Group, whose clients include small - business owners.

Not exact matches

Despite its well - known municipal dysfunction, political corruption and financial disarray (the state of Michigan assigned an emergency manager in July who sought bankruptcy protection after the city's debt rose to $ 18 billion), there are many encouraging signs that the city can rebuild.

Warring camps of employee activists at Google exemplify the dysfunction of our political climate and the rise...

Gibson has managed to keep his seat, but he remains a top target of the DCCC heading into the 2014 midterm elections, and his opponent, Democratic activist and political newcomer Sean Eldridge, is making the selfsame argument about the GOP congressman — that he leans too far to the right and in doing so is contributing to the dysfunction down in D.C.

«Senator Breslin is launching these misguided political attacks because he's still stuck in the mindset of the dysfunction that existed under his watch, and because the guy has nothing to show for his time in office.

When Koch decided to target Albany dysfunction with a political action committee called NY Uprising, he said those who signed the pledge would be declared «heroes» and those who did not would be declared «enemies of the people.»

The meetings, which were held occasionally by Govs. George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, all turned into fiascoes of name - calling and finger - pointing that highlighted the state's political dysfunction and did nothing to advance budget agreements.

The editor of the Post-Star said what Cuomo did «was ensure ensure the political system, the reason for all this dysfunction, would remain the way it is for at least another 10 years.»

«After decades of dysfunction, late budgets and members behaving badly, the taxpayers are desperate for fiscal discipline, greater ethical standards and a political system which serves and meets their needs.»

What was still a weekend burst of Washington dysfunction could spiral into a broader crisis with political consequences in November's midterm elections.

Haidt: Ultimately, the solutions to our polarization and political dysfunction will be legal and institutional changes which reduce the power of extremists in both parties, and which force the parties back to their traditional strategy of competing for the middle, rather than the strategy, used since 2004, of pleasing one's own base.

Three years after Russia's preeminent contemporary auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev scored a nomination for his muscular political allegory «Leviathan,» he returns to the race with «Loveless,» a similarly sprawling, sobering study of social and familial dysfunction in his country.

He is currently writing a book about the challenge of building a first - rate public school system in the face of modern political dysfunction.

But in states where systemic political dysfunction is the norm, teachers unions and other defenders of traditional public education can rally supporters on their behalf.

Fifteen years ago, teenagers in Poland scored below their American peers on the PISA test of critical thinking; today, Polish students perform well above our kids (despite Poland's significant child poverty and political dysfunction).

As for its political resonance in this time of worldwide dysfunction, Lynette says, «the wonderful thing about painting is that it's separate.

His denial of the problem and fact - free assaults on the scientific community are designed to promote political dysfunction, to destroy the reputation of scientists, and to undermine our ability to find common ground.

Clearly, President Obama is constrained by his domestic political situation, the dysfunction of the Senate in moving anything forward right now, and he can't make a binding commitment unless he knows he's going to have the law and the funding to back it up.