Sentences with phrase «of political waves»
Democrats are seizing the moment to seek out promising challengers, from blood - red Kansas to the blue - tinged suburbs of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and enticing them with the prospect of a political wave.
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Nor, for that matter, is he adept at the political stunt: When McConnell stood onstage at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting in March waving a flintlock musket over his head as a show of his support for gun rights, the senator was roundlpolitical stunt: When McConnell stood onstage at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting in March waving a flintlock musket over his head as a show of his support for gun rights, the senator was roundlPolitical Action Conference (CPAC) meeting in March waving a flintlock musket over his head as a show of his support for gun rights, the senator was roundly mocked.
Trump's threat reverberated around the world, sparking a sell - off and prompting a wave of criticism even from members of his own political party.
But it represents a rising wave of overtly racist political action in the U.S., with scheduled speeches from alt - right leaders including National Policy Institute head Richard Spencer.
Last year, Turnbull proposed legislation to target and broaden the definition of foreign interference, after a wave of claims regarding China's influence in political campaigns in Australia.
«They haven't demonstrated that they can transform the wave of dissatisfaction into concrete policies,» says Chaldeans Mensah, a political scientist at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton.
Take Bloomberg, for instance, which reported, «The revelations of the apparent skulduggery that helped Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election keep sending shock waves across the political landscape.»
Perceptive Conservatives know this move toward openness will have to be legitimately addressed and this wave of political trouble can't be turned back with endless and groundless claims that their tormenter - in - chief Tom Mulcair could have ended Quebec corruption by blowing the whistle on the mayor of Laval 17 years ago.
Facing the prospect of a blue wave this fall, the White House's political arm is devoting unprecedented resources to building an army of paid staff and trained volunteers across more than two dozen states.
Facebook's new reputation as a threat to start - ups is a reversal from several years ago, when a wave of start - ups, from dating and food - delivery apps to political consultancies, were able to grow by targeting their customers» friends — and friends of friends — on Facebook.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D - CA) said on Thursday that the National Rifle Association (NRA) is not going to silence her after NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre name - checked her during his Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) address, saying Harris is a member of the «new wave of European - style socialists» that has «infested» the Democrats.
As the global economy picks up steam, how can Australian business make the most of the accelerating wave of digital disruption amid rising political and geo - strategic risks?
Since the United Kingdom took the decision to opt out of the European Union (EU) last June, a wave of populist, anti-European sentiment has swept across the continent, putting the very existence of the political bloc under threat.
Third, that a wave of political populism is surging across the world and creating a challenging environment for capitalist economies.
But most people are still unaware that these anti-Muslim political campaigns are spreading throughout our beloved country as a new wave of Islamophobia hits.
Anticipating the critical, Foucauldian maneuver, he waves away the suspicion that the function of «truth» is simply to provide rhetorical cover to forms of political domination.
We stand at the threshold of Great Waves of environmental, economic and political upheaval and change which will alter the face of Earth.
On a wave of popular youth appeal, Corbyn as suffering servant and capitalist reformer has captured the imagination of those seeking a new political future.
That Kierkegaard's thought is an important contribution to the debates over social and political philosophy is my firm belief, as against those who would dismiss such an idea with a wave of the hand and a chuckle.
Aside from all the vitriol, political rhetoric and waving of religious banners, there is a desire by many Muslims to be heard and seen for what they are: human beings.
The Dakota Territory had absorbed a large wave of immigrant homesteaders, a population vulnerable to economic exploitation and political domination by the native born Americans who also flooded into the territory.
As the global economy picks up steam, how can Australian business make the most of the accelerating wave of digital disruption amid rising political and geo - strategic risks?
She is the daughter of Jean - Marie Le Pen (founder of the National Front) and is often considered the «Donald Trump» of France: a fiery far - right leader who has ridden a populist, anti-immigrant wave to top political status.
What I mean is that anyone who thinks Boris Johnson michael gove and Nigel farage can get clapped out Britain back on track by vilifying johny foreigner and offering political wet dreams of a return to a bygone Victorian era when «we» ruled the waves are even more delusional than those who thought a team with Walcott giroud Ramsey and mertesakher at its heart were going to deliver us the EPL..
Along with major political, cultural, and social changes in Spain during the 1970s came a new wave of baby names.
Talking about values is cheap, sticking out your political neck to try and construct these values in the actual world is expensive - saying no to corporations rather than finger - waving, creating strong laws rather than voluntary codes, recognising and defending unions as a legitimate defence of those with limited power and the strikes which go with it, being prepared to replace internal markets with internal democracies and so forth.
These campaigns represent the next big wave of digital political money, but some will need help from experts like you when it comes to getting support from their campaign managers, etc..
If voters could wave a wand and get rid of any one political tool, I'd bet you a hefty sum that it'd be robocalls, and not just because they're a clear psychwar precursor of the coming genocidal war of robots against humanity.
Old farts like me have no monopoly on talent or skill, and nowadays, wave upon wave of fresh digital activists and advocates join the ranks of internet political practitioners every day.
The wave of support and matching hashtag was more likely to have been organically grown by a political supporter on Twitter.
Yet, given the enormous task of building a new democracy from scratch — and the equally immense economic, ethnic and political problems plaguing the new state — those waves belie turbulent currents.
The Creative Commons open - access resource provided by this product will be valuable not only to those studying the Palestinian Revolution, but also those with an interest in political ideas, decolonisation, and the global wave of national liberation movements of the 50s, 60s and 70s.
What differentiates this new wave of opposition from that of a few years ago is that today's frontrunners of euroscepticism are most active on the right of the political spectrum.
Two possible events stood out for the group: firstly, the chance of a major economic and political crisis caused by the election of anti-EU parties to the Italian Parliament - and their likely outright rejection of any financial controls being placed on them; and secondly, the chance of further waves of migration into the EU, via Turkey.
This wave of criticism was actually kicked off by former Rep. Rick Lazio when he spoke at the state Conservative Party's annual political action conference in Colonie last night.
It's not a position Republicans necessarily want to be in facing the political headwinds of 2018 and Democrats are practically giddy over the prospect of a «blue wave» this year.
Blogads are usually quite inexpensive for the number of people they allow you to reach (though prices on popular blogs have gone up significantly in the past few years), and they're putting you before a targeted audience: activists on a red - meat wave - the - bloody - flag political blog, pacifists on a peace - oriented site, enviros on a green energy blog, and so on.
When he did so Monday night, surging past frontrunner Donald Trump as he rode a wave of enthusiastic support, it appeared to validate — if only for a few fleeting hours before the presidential race resumes — the political positions that have made Cruz such a compelling but controversial figure.
In Labour, key binding decisions were crafted by consenting comrades in compositing cabals, the Liberals braved the perilous political fringes to challenge the timid and brain - comatose, while the Tories orgied in flag - waving Nuremberg Rally - induced hysteria — all no more, drowned in the syrup sea of consensus.
Tens of thousands of people waving rainbow flags lined streets for gay pride parades Sunday in coast - to - coast events that took both celebratory and political tones, the latter a reaction to what some see as new threats to gay rights in the Trump era.
The untimely death from cancer of former UK Labour cabinet minister, Dame Tessa Jowell, has triggered a wave of tributes from across the political spectrum.
How should mainstream political organizations — and politicians themselves — respond to this new wave of tech - enabled citizen activism?
On February 1 Politico's Mike Allen reported that «Obama's political operation is quietly using the afterglow of his State of the Union address to begin activating grassroots supporters as the start of a continuous wave of engagement that will culminate when he stands for reelection on Nov. 6, 2012.»
«There may be a political tidal wave nationally, yet in New York, the water still has a tint of Democratic blue.»
Political campaigns may well benefit if they can catch a wave of people - powered politics, but they still have to win elections even when the waters stay calm.
The Leader and Founder of Glorious Waves Church International, Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi who has forecasted one - touch victory for President John Dramani Mahama again prophesized that a popular flag bearer of one of the leading political parties will fall and faint in the heat on the 2016 election campaign.
Calls for political party supporters to defend themselves following the recent wave of post-election disturbances are a threat to the nation's peace and security, the Chairperson of the National Peace Council, Most Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante has said.
In a political system organised around the dominance of the Conservatives, Labour's periods in office served primarily to head off and demoralise the waves of working class discontent which shook British society in the 1920s, after the Second World War and at the end of the post-war boom in the 1970s.
But there has been little public dialogue about how and whether those proposals respond to what some describe as a political crime wave stemming from the outsized role of money in state politics.
The apparent change of power sent shock waves in political circles across the state.