Sentences with phrase «opportunism on»

I have a strong opinion on this Issue, and my sharing it with you at this time is in no way attributable to opportunism on my part, due to the Issue's sudden prominence in the news cycle.

Felder has worn his opportunism on his sleeve since his election in 2012, professing his willingness to cut a deal with whomever has the power to give him more stuff.

We assign priority to the internal factors, to the socio - economic conditions that reproduce opportunism on the basis of socialist construction, without of course underestimating the long - term effect and the multi-faceted interference of imperialism in the development of opportunism and its evolution into a counterrevolutionary force.

«Nick Herbert rebuts Labour opportunism on police numbers Main The lady wasn't for turning because she didn't try to do too much»

Of course there is always the chance that the story is wrong or that this asking price is just a bit of opportunism on the part of the Magpies and the French star will complete a transfer for much less but at the minute we have to at least consider the possibility that the north east club will not sell for less.

You have to go back to Frank Lampard's last - minute opportunism on 17 August 2002 at Charlton for the most recent example.

Not exact matches

But moving to a platform play requires opportunism, guts, and vision with a commitment to taking on the challenges of tomorrow.

This picture — snapped of a bald eagle, America's favorite bird, who swooped in on fisherman Bruce Huntley's catch and stole away with it before he could reel it in — is probably some sort of metaphor for American ingenuity or opportunism or something.

Much of the history of biological life is built on opportunism; and, as evidenced in predator - prey relations, this opportunism is cruel, at least from the point of view of the victims.

Most important, Faldo's round contained the ruthless opportunism reminiscent of other seemingly impossible comebacks, such as the one in the 1966 U.S. Open by Billy Casper, who rallied from seven strokes behind Arnold Palmer on the final nine.

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.

Chelski stank the competition out with bus parking and opportunism and basically stifled the life out of their opponents before winning on penalties.

«We have not been able to proceed on Lords reform, frankly, because there is opposition in parliament and the opportunism of the Labour party,» he said.

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.

«People listening to these exchanges and reflecting on what he said on Sunday will see nothing but total and utter opportunism,» he said.

Gillibrand denied her comments on the former president were spurred by political opportunism.

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.

But the Republican candidate for the seat, Richard Hanna, slammed Arcuri's attack on a former ally as «opportunism.»

«But his solution is so outrageous that he's going to put our state into unchartered waters because of a few irresponsible and reckless senators on the other side of the aisle... I think it's political opportunism and it's dangerous.»

When pressed on whether it was political opportunism, he responded: «I think people are intelligent enough to make their minds up on that.»

Miliband has come out today criticising the government for its outsourcing of police and security services «on a scale and at a speed never before seen», and has hence been under attack from furious government bods, police minister Nick Herbert today calling the Labour leader's remarks «cheap opportunism.»

On the same programme former Tory defence secretary Liam Fox called the SNP's move «a toxic mixture of opportunism and hypocrisy».

A question on the defence reviews sees Cameron attack Labour for «opportunism».

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By standing on this issue alone, and not as a Conservative he will have cross party appeal to all that love liberty and, to be fair, hating them to their miserable yellow core as I do, I have to say well done the the Lib Dems - for once they seem to be putting what principles they have before naked opportunism.

«I can tell you, having sat on the opposition benches for the past nine years, that opportunism does not work.»

Coalition relations plummeted on Monday when the Liberal Democrats were accused by Conservatives of double crossing, cynicism, cheating and opportunism as Nick Clegg's peers joined Labour to delay a constituency boundary review that had been likely to give the Tories 20 extra seats.

As she painfully twists and turns, squirming to avoid the truth, he relentlessly extracts a shocking story of opportunism, suffering, and sacrifice attendant on survival in a time of war.

The mayor worked for UTLA years ago — Fletcher was a member of the board that hired him in 1987 — and Villaraigosa's recent attacks on the union have struck many of his former colleagues as political opportunism, the desire to score points as independent of the union at its expense.

Some automotive media outlets can't contain their enthusiasm, or opportunism, as may be the case, and decide to release photos on the web ahead of agreed - to embargo terms.

All of us are grappling in one capacity or another with the industry's rapidly advancing new suite of potentials that can look, on a good day, like bright new beginnings, and on another day like an accelerating luge run down the slippery slope directly into opportunism, blurring ethical lines, and new relationships under the banner of author management.

Acts committed as a means of self - preservation soon developed into a way of life based on opportunism.

In 2013, managements of companies with super strong financial positions are sacrificing Return on Equity (ROE) and Return on Investment (ROI) for the safety and opportunism inherent in having a strong financial position.

For example, a strong financial position in 2011 means one is dealing with a management willing to sacrifice returns on equity, for the safety and opportunism inherent in a strong financial position.

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.

Clark will focus on a number of exhibitions and projects he has organized over the past 12 years with a particular emphasis on the role and responsibility of the institutional curator / director, the relative virtues of context, opportunism and demand, and the need for a different kind of speed.

She zeroes in on wayward sites and events that epitomize environmental and cultural missteps, strange overlaps of nature and commerce, convergences that arise from opportunism, tourism, waste, scarcity and nostalgia.

She zeroes in on wayward sites and events that epitomize environmental and cultural miss - steps, strange overlaps of nature and commerce, convergences that arise from opportunism, tourism, waste, scarcity and nostalgia.

He came to see opportunism in some of those loudly sounding the global warming alarm — especially as they raced to obtain a piece of the growing pot of federal research funding on the topic.

I wonder if we might count on the opportunism of some political party to make an election promise to increase Legal Services funding, conditional on some undertaking by the regulatory bodies to effect real change of this kind.

There are many ways to save money on the life insurance coverage you need, and taking advantage of those savings opportunism can significantly cut the cost of such coverage.