Sentences with phrase «opportunism gets»

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CHARLIE MUNGER: Well, it's just a few simple tricks that work well and probably you've got a temperament that has a combination of patience and opportunism in it.

Getting ridiculous on here — not only do we demand transfers but they also have to «picture perfect» and dripping with ambition, with no hint of opportunism and completed on a date that is not too early to smack of desperation nor too late to suggest panic — and ideally we have to take a world class player from a club that doesn't want them to leave.

Given the fact that half the Yes camp is trying, like some dodgy second - hand car dealer, to sell us something they know is a hunk of junk I find it a bit rich of you to get on your moral high horse about the «opportunism» of the No camp.

Your Grace, Even in those post-Peel wilderness years, Derby and Disraeli did get enough short goes in power as to never quite be out for 10 years - with Disraeli often demonstrating what now seems a rather Cameronesque flexibility.They did have one major «legacy» achievement - in the 1867 reform act - if created rather more from political opportunism than any particular principle on the franchise question.

Ed Miliband was accused of «opportunism» at prime minister's questions earlier, but argued that tonight's vote was an «opportunity to get a mandate» from the Commons to call for a real - terms cut.

However, the further away we get from 9/11, the more difficult it is to accuse people of opportunism every time they mention the attacks (perhaps the best accusation along those lines came from Joe Biden during the 2008 presidential race... Remember: A noun, and a verb and 9/11?).

I take the SAFE act to be equal parts political opportunism, slapdash lawmaking and a genuine desire to get guns away from dangerous people: good gun control laws yes, the SAFE act, not so much.

The Manchester Withington MP had scorn for Labour's opposition, however, adding: «All we're getting from the party opposite is pathetic political opportunism.

He then attacks Labour's «opportunism», before Ed Miliband gets up to begin his questioning.

Before I get too keen on social history, I better remember that Hassam's understanding of it arose less from political maturity or opportunism than from the subject of his art.