Sentences with phrase «opponents as opponents»

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- them formula that McConnell had used against Democratic opponents, painting them as tools of East Coast elites.

Ireland in particular is likely to be a vocal opponent of the move, as its low tax rates have encouraged companies such as Facebook and Apple (aapl) to locate their international headquarters there.

At a rare press conference following Bo Xilai's dismissal, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao warned that without further reform China risked plunging into another «tragedy» like the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when an aged Chairman Mao Zedong rallied peasants, workers and students to upend the social order as a way to vanquish his opponents.

The two opponents took it as an opportunity to drive home points about who has the strongest conservative credentials.

Takeaway: What looks like a mistake may be nothing but a feint, and if your opponent fails to keep their guard up because they don't see you as a threat, you can mop the floor with them before they know what hit them.

While Miscavige and his organization have held up the media complex as a valuable tool for spreading the message of Scientology and recruiting new members to join, the new facilities have received criticism from opponents of the religion — including some former members — who claim the complex is nothing more than a propaganda machine and a ploy to attract donations.

He knows that if his opponents don't take him seriously, all sorts of great things can happen: they may not prepare as well for debates, work as hard to win certain states or pay attention to what they're saying as carefully as they should.

It was discovered that the color red subconsciously boosts the player's confidence and affects their opponents as well.

Opponents of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines hold a rally as they protest US President Donald Trump's executive orders advancing their construction, at Lafayette Park next to the White House in Washington, DC, on January 24, 2017.

Manning came across as a laid back southern boy but on the gridiron he was a clinical, ruthless competitor with an off - the - charts football IQ who changed plays at the line of scrimmage to outsmart opposing defenses and torched opponents with a big arm and dead - on accuracy.

One of the pipeline's most vocal opponents, McKibben said the decision gives Obama «new stature as an environmental leader.»

Trump, who's never served, hews to a different standard, as he makes clear when he cites the speculation of «many people» as evidence his Democratic opponent's emails got a scientist killed.

Able to charge inorganic objects with kinetic energy, he began using playing cards as an explosive weapon against opponents.

According to a CBS news exit poll analysis, Trump is seen as a better steward of the economy than his opponent.

Newman, who had the backing of an array of national abortion - rights groups and two members of Illinois» congressional delegation, campaigned heavily against her opponent's voting record and promoted herself as a champion of «working families, healthcare for all, and everybody's rights,» she told Business Insider last year.

That strategy worked so well that Franken's 2014 Republican opponent tried to win votes by casting Franken as a guy who was «basically invisible» in Washington.

During his imagined campaign, Franken painted his opponent as a tool of the financial industry and managed to win the White House despite insulting Iowa voters, making outlandish yet simple campaign promises, indulging his mood swings, and being accused of extramarital affairs.

A year from elections, Hollande is under intense pressure as opponents accuse his administration of police failings over the tragedy.

Both his backers and his opponents describe him as shrewd, iron - willed and, above all, persistent — like a Survivor contestant, he's able to outwit, outplay and outlast larger rivals.

He was accused of being absent during turmoil in the firm, just as his political opponents now notice his time spent away from Canada.

Their opponents, developers who upkeep bitcoin's software, want it to act more as a robust platform that allows them to build new functions on top.

To fall victim to such bogeymen comes across as undoubtedly more defensible than succumbing to weak or inept opponents.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a longtime opponent of marijuana legalization, is embracing the Just - Say - No attitude towards marijuana and links the industry to violence and crime as he begins his role as the nation's top attorney.

But small business groups such as the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are vocal opponents, and have lobbied extensively to fight the passage of wage reform bills in Congress.

While journalists were still trying to treat the GOP pick as a typical phenomenon — analyzing his positions, comparing them with his opponents», striving for balance — comics decided that Trump was such an outlier that he demanded stronger action.

Just as pro sports players watch hours of game tapes of their opponents, you should have as much knowledge as possible about the style, motivations, and interpersonal dynamics of the other side.

Ironically, this last piece of legislation could be his political undoing as opponents of another of his technocratic initiatives, the Harmonized Sales Tax, have succeeded in mobilizing bipartisan dissent.

One of the chief gripes of the banks» opponents is that it assists the exporting activities of very large companies such as Boeing, Caterpillar, and General Electric, which they say puts smaller companies at a disadvantage.

The WikiLeaks disclosures should be the kind of «October surprise» that would thrill Clinton's opponents, who've spent years attacking her as untrustworthy and willing to say anything for personal gain.

«He's looking at this as showing he still can be king of the hill, because we don't have the votes to override,» Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, a vocal opponent of Obama's climate change agenda, said in an interview.

The website, meanwhile, paints Aitken as an opponent of privacy.

Following the letter of so many laws could easily become overwhelming, confusing, and — as opponents of regulation might argue — paralyzing.

Clinton has repeatedly accused her opponent as being soft on Russia, pointing to his praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin as a strong leader, his suggestion that he would rethink sanctions against Russian officials, his sharp criticism of NATO and other policy positions.

Tillerson responded to the questions, along with others about Putin's opponents winding up dead, with what's likely to become a familiar refrain for the executive as more allegations about Russia come to the fore: «I do not have sufficient information to make that claim.»

While tech companies dislike paying taxes — just look at Apple, which keeps much of its money offshore to avoid taxes, or Twitter, which once threatened to leave San Francisco unless it received a special tax break — none of them wants to be labeled as an opponent of anything that would provide help for the homeless and those with low incomes.

Lopez Obrador's party, Morena, has dismissed the suggestion it has ideological or political sympathies for Venezuela's socialist government, but this year, opponents in Mexico have played up purported links between the two, as they did to him before the 2006 election.

Local opponents of the storage, such as Tom Clements, director of SRS Watch, contend the facility was never built for holding plutonium and say there is a risk of leakage and accidents in which large amounts of radioactivity are released.

In a letter to Obama at the time, Brennan said he was «a strong opponent of many of the policies of the Bush administration, such as the preemptive war in Iraq and coercive interrogation tactics, to include water boarding.»

«Some of the large retailers who are big importers have been some of the most vocal opponents,» Rosenberg said, noting they haven't been the only ones who have come out against the proposal, but also pointing to support the plan has from companies such as Boeing, General Electric, and Johnson and Johnson.

AT&T, a longtime opponent of net neutrality, this week said it would join the day of action, though many regarded its claim as a cynical tactic.

You begin seeing customers as targets, opponents or even victims in the process.

The challenge devised by die - hard opponents of the law, often derided by critics as «Obamacare,» relied on four words -; established by the state -; in the more than 900 - page law.

Puzder has positioned himself as a staunch opponent of workplace regulations like overtime rules, which he say hurt business.

But firing Mueller or issuing pardons «would be certain to ignite the kind of political firestorm that we haven't seen since the Saturday Night Massacre,» he said, and Trump's political opponents would undoubtedly paint it as obstruction of justice.

Dalton McGuinty's opponents welcomed a report from the Fraser Institute last month as hunters welcome fresh boxes of ammunition.

«As a candidate for Governor let me save my opponents some research time.»

But it won't, as Keystone's environmentalist opponents hope, curtail future oilsands development; bitumen exports to the U.S. have already soared without the pipeline expansion.

Simply put, as part of a desperate attempt to keep America out of recession and himself out of the ranks of unemployed Americans, Obama has torn a page from the questionable Keynesian play book and just asked his political opponents for permission to toss the mother of all Hail Mary passes.

The startup continued to forge ahead even as its opponents appealed last month to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Just as jujitsu teaches practitioners to channel an opponent's energy to achieve their goals, running a business during the holidays requires accepting the fact that there will be a certain amount of shifted focus and figuring out how to use it for the good of the company.