Sentences with phrase «one's political advantage»

Right now there is great temptation for both sides of the standard culture - war divide to use this attack for political advantage.

How can there be political advantage in what the American people hate?

There is no party political advantage to be had.

Once again, he is trying to turn his economic failure into some kind of short - term political advantage.

But if narrow political advantage is deployed to try and block this emerging, heads should be knocked together to at least reveal whether there is the possibility of finding that elusive middle ground.

Frankly, if we do try to squeeze political advantage out of this we deserve everything that comes to us.

Advocates gain an important rhetorical and political advantage if they can portray a certain level of spending as a «cut» when dollars are held constant or rise less than expected.

And I am certainly not doing it in the hope of immediate political advantage.

How about you wait until you see what the proposals are before opposing them in advance for cheap political advantage?

And there are obvious political advantages for the charters of having these parents onboard.

The use of new technology to seize political advantages is not a recent phenomenon.

The chancellor used his first big speech of the new political season to exploit political advantage out of the return to sustainable growth he now believes is taking place.

Either they know they are misleading the public and do it for cynical political advantage.

If high - regulation is not the norm and does not help children, supporters of this approach might still favor it if they think it has certain political advantages.

They might change their claims if there is some financial or political advantage in doing so.

What appeared to matter was party political advantage, and not much else.

However, some analysts have said the move is merely for political advantage.

Instead, all you do is look for some cheap political advantage - no matter how costly to the country.

In addition to losing quality if key choice backers were to support charters to the exclusion of private school choice, there are obvious political advantages to backing both types of choice.

President Donald Trump moved quickly Wednesday to gain political advantage in the wake of the New York terrorist attack, casting blame on Democrats for lax immigration laws and calling the criminal justice system's handling of suspects «a joke.»

An open - ended declaration to stay «as long as it takes» lets Iraqi factions maneuver for their own political advantage by making us stay as long as they want, and it becomes an excuse for billions of American tax dollars to be sent to Iraq and siphoned off into the coffers of cronyism and corruption.

But in a few months of not particularly difficult campaigning, confrontations with political opponents made him appear aggressive, even vindictive, in trying to squeeze every ounce of political advantage from each situation, said the politicians and consultants.

The PM was seeking political advantage in 1955 after Churchill retired, and his replacement was seeking a personal mandate.

«Pruitt is of course absolutely right to focus on government action rather than idle chatter, but that has not dissuaded global warming activists and even some elected officials from trying to take political advantage of these two huge storms to promote their pet cause — policies to limit the use of fossil fuels,» Ebell wrote.

The contrast creates a sense that any sensible cross-party criticism of these acts tends to be lost in the clamour to gain party political advantage by drumming up opposition to an imaginary foe.

«Then, if you have a political situation, it just takes one conflict or one crime of opportunity to have a situation in which people take political advantage and lobby against the refugees.»

I don't care about political advantage.

He stated; «Let us look more at things that unite us than things that divide us... To gain political advantage over each other all the time, you fan these tribal sentiments all the time.

The gambit marks another attempt by the opposition to secure political advantage from the flooding, which has affected an estimated 5,800 households.

I guess Trump will lose a huge political advantage (because you can't say that something is fake with this kind of law in place), but wouldn't it give him a bigger advantage since every fake story will have too big consequences to run it before fact checking it?

«I hope they will rediscover that — rather than playing endless little games for short - term political advantage as they did at the time of the AV referendum.»

Labour has refused to co-operate, and while the Liberal Democrats want change, they're concerned the Conservatives are intent on political advantage.

They understand that the litigious wordsmiths have opted for political advantage at the risk of compromising integrity of logic and reason.

This is not just a word to throw around because it serves political advantage.»

There is, therefore, no long - range political advantage to be gained by an effort to wrap Israel's security in a blanket of evangelical biblical literalism.

That result is a high price to pay for attaining a momentary political advantage.

Mr Miliband has traditionally sought to avoid the confrontations with unions which characterised the time of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but there are some very concrete political advantages to a public spat with union leaders and many voices in his office are urging him to make the most of it.

It's hard, therefore, to see what political advantage there is in Cameron fighting his own side over an issue of supreme unconcern to most of the public.

Lynam, with Citizens Budget Commission, says Cuomo's approach has some distinct political advantages.

In 2016, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix tried to reach WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to try to help take better political advantage of the hacked Clinton emails.

The tax - the - rich plan may face long odds in Albany, but it pressures the governor and also provides a kind of triple bank shot in the game of local political advantage for the mayor as he gears up for his re-election campaign in November.

Even when the prime minister gets things right, as with his chairmanship of the G20 summit, he is incapable of turning it into domestic political advantage.

«Nothing in the judge's decision changes the fact that power is being taken away from legislators and given back to New Yorkers,» said Dadey, who says the amendment will «ensure that no lines, no districts are drawn for political advantage anymore».

«This action violates the transparency and integrity of the CEP system and gives him an unfair political advantage,» Wooden wrote in the complaint.

But the big issue of party political advantage overshadowing the legislation is unlikely to be so easily resolved.