Sentences with phrase «other than political ones»

But factors other than political ones were at play as well, including a big (5 percent) drop in shares of defense behemoth United Technologies after it announced plans to buy another company for what some analysts deemed an exorbitant price.

Not exact matches

Yes, but only if one takes into account nothing other than economic and political factors.

85 But characteristically he went on to praise America for its democracy: «Democracy is an ultimate norm of political organization in the sense that no better way has been found to check the inordinacy of the powerful on the one hand and the confusion of the multitude on the other than by making every center of power responsible to the people whom it affects.»

The problem is that organized religion is as much political animal as any other human convention involving more than 2 people, and spiritual, thinking individuals are intelligent enough to know that churches / mosques / community reprogramming centers actually have very little to do with what one actually believes...

If the church has no other plan of salvation to offer to men than one of deliverance by force, education, idealism or planned economy, it really has no existence as a church and needs to resolve itself into a political party or a school.

There is on one side of this coin the students» tendency to attend lectures which they need for their examinations; on the other side is the fact that there is strong political support for Küng among the students (there was a huge rally and torchlight parade last December on the night following the Roman edict to withdraw his missio canonica), and for many students, both Protestant and Catholic, the issues in the Küng case are larger than the man himself, Küng's status at the university is not dependent on the number of students who come to his lectures (nor on the number of his doctoral students), but the fall semester will be some index of the viability of this new «third track» in theology.

Overreacting, there are those who doubt that one person, one political party, and one set of values can be better than any other.

No doubt many humorous poems are less important than other more philosophical or political ones, and some comic poems seem hardly poems at all.

As I thought about how to apply these teachings practically, a lot of strategies came to mind — putting the needs of others before my own, buying less and giving more, humbling myself when engaged in political or theological debates, embracing rather than complaining about those «one - way relationships,» praying for others more sincerely, saying «yes» a little more often, working on that ubiquitous sense of entitlement and pride that keeps me from going the extra mile.

Only in this connection can we understand how a society that seems, if one considers its articulate and self - conscious classes, so intensely ideological can show such low rates of political and ideological knowledge and involvement when compared with other modern societies.15 The gap between intellectuals and masses, between conscious ideology and popular feeling, is probably greater than in most Western countries.

The fact that there were around three times more male journalists shaping election coverage than female ones demonstrates that the dearth of women is not just an issue for political parties, but that national media outlets also need to consider why it is that national political journalism in the UK continues to be a domain where men write about other men.

In «The Political Animal» Paxman one points out how much more dynastic the Labour Party has been than the others Its easier for shall we say, a Toynbee, to be keen on redistribution.

«The hardworking residents of the 46th Senate District can see with their own eyes that Cecila Tkaczyk has a habit of saying one thing and doing another, just like when she pledged not to send political mail at taxpayer expense and then went on to spend $ 81,000 in just six months ---- more than any other Democrat in the entire State Senate,» Reif said.

The unfortunate aspect is that if one side of the equation has to be sacrificed, the disappointment is far greater or of more political significance than the pleasure felt at the achievement of the other side.

They need at least one of the other 31 to ever actually do anything, so why not make an end run around that insanity and find a political solution in finding a leader than can get 32 votes in support?

A SoP reader who has been keeping track of votes in the Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel in Orange County said it looks like the support for the congressman by one of the village's two political factions netted him about 5,000 votes (in other words, more than Maloney's margin of victory — this number has been fixed).

The trial began less than two weeks after prosecutors in Manhattan unleashed one of their broadest attacks ever on political corruption by bringing conspiracy charges against a state senator, a state assemblyman and a city councilman, among others.

Opening statements could get underway later Monday at the trial, which comes less than two weeks after prosecutors in Manhattan unleashed one of their broadest attacks ever on political corruption by bringing conspiracy charges against a state senator, a state assemblyman and a city councilman, among others.

It was obvious the president was outraged that a political group under whose leadership two similar agreements were signed, would turn around to discredit one being entered into by a government other than theirs.

«However, we found that whether or not a woman has a sense of linked fate with other women does a better job than any of these previously considered variables of explaining why the marriage gap exists, and yet no one is talking about this as an important factor in women's political preferences.»

«One implication is that female legislators might talk about politics and deliberately engage the other party more than their male colleagues,» said Patrick Miller, assistant professor of political science.

Tony Black on screen legend Michael Caine... His recent political leanings aside, Sir Michael Caine remains one of the surviving legends of British and indeed American cinema of the last fifty years, and this weekend's Going in Style — a heist caper directed by none other than Scrubs «Zach Braff — sees him share top billing with fellow aged -LSB-...]

One of the sorrows of supporting Common Core is that it has estranged many allies who have long championed Hirsch's work, yet do not see the connection, or who — for political, pedagogical, or other reasons — have opted to fight implementation, rather than to insist that schools make good on those words and Hirsch's deeply egalitarian vision of education.

Jenni Dye, research director for the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, said Evers will appear to be less political than the other candidates after last week's controversy.

In other words, less than one half of one percent of the union's political spending goes to the right.

And I think the blurb might sound appealing to those who specifically seek out epic fantasy (I've never described my stuff as epic fantasy, but with the political emphasis in this one and the multiple story lines, it feels closer to it than many of my others).

Rather than subscribe to all these other magazines and newspapers (and deal with the political bias each one of them offers!)

To say this work is «political» or that it's «critiquing» anything other than itself as a worn - out trope is to demean art and to take away from the one big move in this otherwise monotonous show — Amer's impressive foray into large, twisted ceramics adorned with Rita Ackerman — ish images of young girls.

In the bread aisle, two loaves of bread may look nearly identical in form, but to the discerning consumer, their ancillary texts reveal two distinct products in support of vastly differing production methods, political economies, and consequences: one ingredients list reads «flour, water, yeast, salt» while the other lists fourteen ingredients, more than half of which are names of chemical compounds.

More than 170, usually one - person shows traced various trends in conceptual art, minimalism, abstract and figurative painting, neo-Expressionism, political art, photography, video and architecture, among others.

Media stories point out one reason for this huge influence: the company gives more money to political campaigns than does any other individual or corporation.

Climate science has unintentionally become one of the most significant fronts in the socioeconomic - political struggle to develop a sustainable better future for humanity, a struggle to correct incorrect developments that have developed powerful defences, particularly through regionally temporarily successful misleading marketing appeals to developed temptations for more potential personal benefit rather than desiring to be more helpful to others and the future of humanity.

The core of the issue that I worry most about, as do others, is that arguments for action on climate change that evoke only one particular vision of the future will reflect only the priorities and values of certain parties, rather than a broad, pragmatic set of choices designed to both effectively manage the problem of climate change and align a diversity of political interests in support of policy action.

In other words, like so many environmental studies these days, it is more of a political artefact than a scientific one.

Proposing regulatory solutions rather than technological ones similarly motivated one side of the population to take it as a new justification for their political beliefs, and the other side to see it as an assault on their freedom and motivated them to find flaws in it.

Scientists surveyed people in 25 countries around the world, and found there's no country quite like the U.S, where climate denial is much more closely tied to one's political persuasion than any other country.

Often the two political agendas collide and there are those who believe that one is more important than the other, but most rational people would agree that improving the environment where it has been degraded would be a good thing.

There are those on one side who see unintended consequences of probable government attempts at mitigation for AGW, given the current dominating political philosophies, as something worse than even some rather severe effects from AGW, and those on the other hand that see a major role for government in these areas that mitigation would encompass no matter what the future may hold for AGW.

I think a lot of those undecided voters suspect this is the case, but rather than spending untold hours doing research to decide whom to vote for, they seek information from someone that they are sure understands how the political gears fit together and can explain it briefly and clearly without propagandizing for one side or the other.

EU's lack of a political and fiscal union would have been issues at the forefront of UK's involvement but with Brexit, one view is the benefit to the UK is they are now negotiating business deals for themselves rather than having to consider the impact to the other EU 27 countries.

No one is totally immune to marketing or political messaging but there is little evidence that Cambridge Analytica is better than other similar PR or political canvassing companies at targeting voters.

And when your fondness for Ms. Kardashian West is combined with other interests you've indicated on Facebook, researchers believe their algorithms can predict the nuances of your political views with better accuracy than your loved ones.

I've worked with several clients, both in couples and individual therapy, where one partner has very different political views than the other and it doesn't cause tension in the relationship.