Sentences with phrase «on political rhetoric»

The unions suffered an embarrassing defeat when the plaintiffs won at trial — but the judge's ruling was heavy on political rhetoric and light on legal reasoning (see «Script Doctors,» legal beat, fall 2014).

While researchers often shy away from using rankings in serious statistical analyses of test scores, they can have a substantial impact on political rhetoric, and consequently, education policy.

Where Begin differed from them was in his greater readiness to take risks, his imperviousness to condemnation, and the emphasis he placed on political rhetoric and symbolism.

Much of this coverage focuses too much on the political rhetoric at the expense of the people who actually perform the work of financial regulation; the ones who will be the best and last line of defense against another financial crisis.

Not exact matches

It will be «true centrist, informative content,» serving as a «center lane in a two - lane highway,» focusing on «decluttering the political rhetoric.»

That defensive position came under attack in 2015 as political rhetoric from both sides zeroed in on perceived unfair drug pricing.

However, the same way investors are growing leery of Washington's political rhetoric, they are also putting less weight on the endless parade of speeches by voting members of the Fed — specifically, Janet Yellen, Stan Fischer, Bill Dudley, and Lael Brainard — in an effort to manipulate markets without doing anything.

They're often portrayed as a major cause of rapid housing - price growth, spurring impassioned political rhetoric accompanied by targeted taxes on their properties.

Ford's messaging on his promised «audit» of Liberals» spending hits a low point in political rhetoric, even for him.

It's just that his political rhetoric is predicated on the incoherent and dangerous proposition that politics can only become populist when it is stripped of the political — when rhetoric becomes unrhetorical.

Second, I know exactly how we pay their salary, unemployment taxes, etc.... you don't even seem to understand this basic information which makes me think your posting is just political rhetoric that you heard perhaps on Glenn Beck?

Facts like the snows that have covered Mount Kilimanjaro for thousands of years are melting Scientific proof may not be as «warm and fuzzy» feeling as political rhetoric is, but it's better to base our beliefs and actions on objective reality than on self - serving political dogma.

Examining the successful use of Scripture on the part of Bill Clinton and George Bush, and the unsuccessful use by Joe Lieberman and John Kerry ¯ not to mention Howard Dean's absurd excursion into the New Testament book of Job ¯ Berlinerblau demonstrates that biblical citations are most effective in American political rhetoric when they are (1) sparse, (2) positive, (3) vague, (4) shallow, and (5) veiled.

Nevertheless, a nation should include at least such elements as common commitment to the rule of law, generally accepted limits on political power and rhetoric, belief in constitutional governance, the rights of citizens, etc..

Listen to her interview on Fox News last night, she looked ridiculous, clueless, and kept on spewing out the same political rhetoric without actually saying anything to an extent that I actually felt bad for her.

Political rhetoric continues to assume that social morality simply means government activism on behalf of those deemed to be the least advantaged members of society.

From that point on, the rhetoric of Russian political discourse was from the point of view of military might.

Campaign promises on special quotas for women have in the past remained a political rhetoric.

He played on the fact that people are distrusting of the political establishment, hence his rhetoric about being an outsider.

As the Paralympics take off this week, there are deeply political rumblings along these lines both about the government's rhetoric on disabled people, and the controversial position of Atos as an official sponsor.

The way in which the manifesto is able to exploit much of the racist rhetoric about «bogus» refugees used by government and mainstream party political spokespeople during the debates on the Asylum and Immigration Act illustrates the impact of such debate in legitimising the views of fascist and far right groups.

«Some of them have been small, others large, but together they have turned the party inwards rather than outwards, looking to the past rather than to new ideas, resting on easy rhetoric rather than taking hard decisions — and above all seeking to distance ourselves from our time in government, rather than building on it, in terms of both policy content and political culture and dynamic.»

Even on Europe, there is an English dimension that is simply not reflected in current political rhetoric — even among those Eurosceptics who pride themselves in reflecting the view from the street or saloon bar.

Away from the fierce political rhetoric, Greeks on all sides of the political divide keep their good humour

Heavy on rhetoric but light on specifics, the statement from the party called for «targeted political action» to ensure the 124 MPs who voted against Lords reform last night do not keep their seats in the next election.

The rhetoric, which President Sarkozy also employed when he was first running four years ago, is partly a result of France's two - part electoral system, which forces candidates to appeal to voters on the extremes of their political wing in the first round before making a pitch for the centre in the second round run - off.

, called for the government to crack down on the spread of guns to suspicious people and urged an end to the kind of hateful political rhetoric that targeted the congresswoman before she was critically wounded by a lone gunman.

He has so far declined to comment on that possibility, but said in a statement that Mr. Loeb's comments were «deeply hurtful and offensive and there is no place for this type of rhetoric in any discourse — political or otherwise.»

FIRST ON CNN: IOWA»S STEVE KING HEADING TO SOUTH CAROLINA... King, whose hard line immigration rhetoric has angered some of his fellow Republicans and delighted Democrats eager to keep Hispanic voters in their fold, is quietly planning meetings with political activists in the early presidential primary state of South Carolina, CNN has learned.

We stand united in condemning violent rhetoric on the airwaves that can lead to violent acts by unhinged extremists, and we will not condone corporations and public figures who inflame the masses in order to drive political ends or profits.

It's time for both candidates to drop the political rhetoric and get together on a schedule of debates.

In an election year, President Mahama called on the clergy to be quick in calling for calm heads when the atmosphere gets heated and political rhetorics are being thrown around.

Well, while it is not my intention to bore Nigerians with rhetoric on the governor's achievements, it is gratifying to note that this mission - minded man of uncommon courage has done excellently well in rekindling the hope of the good people of Osun State who defied all odds on August 9, 2014 to resubmit their political totality and administrative authority to him.

This is an eminently sensible approach that would allow future drug policy to be based on evidence of what works, rather than political rhetoric or tabloid fever.

Just as de Blasio was telling public radio listeners a proposal to shutter Rikers is a «noble» idea, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton was on a different radio station calling the concept «just political rhetoric, a lot of hot air basically» and something that is «not going to happen.»

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, an advocate for immigrants and the Latino community, said she would dedicate a speech she is delivering on immigration in Washington D.C., tomorrow to Trump because his rhetoric about immigrants has helped engage them in the political process.

The risk facing the parties today is that their current fierce rhetoric over immigration will have a lasting impact on the political orientations of the new migrant electorate.

Effectively ending Labour's decade - long ceasefire on class - based political rhetoric, Miss Harman last year declared that social class is the «over-arching» inequality in Britain today.

Just as Mayor Bill de Blasio was telling public radio listeners he thought a proposal to shutter Rikers Island was a «noble» idea, the New York City police commissioner was on a different radio station calling the concept «just political rhetoric, a lot of hot air basically» and something that is «not going to happen.»

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton on Friday dismissed City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's pitch to shut down Rikers Island as «political rhetoric» and «a lot of hot air» in a radio...

Your baseless claim and your use of exactly the kind of political rhetoric that they abhor is reason enough to remove the current majority and replace it with the GOP who run the house on behalf of the people rather than on their own behalf.

President Akufo - Addo reiterated his position that the laws of the country will crack the whip on political party vigilante groups, but many have brushed off his comments as usual rhetoric from government.

In thematically distinct speeches at opposite ends of the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday unveiled elements of a 2017 agenda that reached out to a middle class empowered but angered by national political rhetoric, and to upstate residents who feel left behind by the post-recession recovery.

Mark - Viverito, on the other hand, has remained hostile, calling the Trump presidency a «state of emergency» and saying that hateful rhetoric is «still welcome under Trump's tent» — pointing in particular to his appointment of controversial Breitbart News head Stephen Bannon as his chief political strategist and counsel.

This creates the political justification for sharpened rhetoric on equality, while the policy rationale is contained in counteracting the tendencies to inequality involved with both globalisation and technological change, the great drivers of economic transformation in our times.

«Regardless of political identification, the heated discussions and divisive rhetoric this election season have the potential to take a toll on people's well - being and even affect their job performance,» Ballard said.

At that, the conversation moved on to the challenge of AP chemistry, what math to take after AP calculus, and a recent English class on the rhetoric of political campaigns.

That's the message of a report by the National Working Commission on Choice in K - 12 Education, which spent two years trying to get beyond divisive political rhetoric and figure out how best to give parents choices among schools receiving public money.

They told us that, on a more personal level, teachers use research for professional nourishment, to become more critical consumers of evidence, especially in the face of media rhetoric and political reporting of education issues.

Even if Cuomo's «conversion» on the Common Core is nothing more than political self - preservation, it is certainly an interesting development that even New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has come to recognize that parroting the Common Core and Corporate Education Reform Industry rhetoric is not the right thing to do.