Sentences with phrase «pay the price for political»

Children should not be the ones to pay the price for any political effort to gain control of public finances.

The AMS, AGU, AAAS and such have taken sides in a political fight and science is going to pay the price for their political advocacy.

Not exact matches

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But there is a political price to be paid for all of these policies, and if the Canadian economy continues to sputter along, the Harper government will not appreciate fat - cat CEOs sitting on corporate wealth.

Since the popular vote for the Conservatives in 2011 was less than that, Mossop doesn't think Harper will pay any great political price for approving the pipeline.

If the economy deteriorates in the L - shaped «hockey - stick» rut that many economists forecast, what political price will President Obama and the Democrats pay for having returned the financial keys to the Bush Republican appointees who gave away the store in the first place?

The well - funded dairy lobby spends a great deal of money (an estimated $ 80 to $ 100 million each year — ironically paid for by the higher prices consumers pay), persuading federal and provincial politicians that supply management «protects the family farm,» «ensures food security» and that, because these farmers are so numerous, doing anything to upset them would be political suicide.

What pleased me most was his statement that the university «would not only permit but would honor and respect those who, not for political effect, but for personal, private reasons witness their conscience by a willingness to pay the price of their disobedience.»

It is the price Wilson pays for regulating religion to a corny sideshow of Kendrick's socio - political life.

There's another aspect to this tangled and bloody business that's worth noting, and that is the high price that Europe, and France in particular, is paying for culturally engrained (and sometimes legally enforced) political correctness.

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

In sum, the UK's caretaker conventions are inadequate and the price that the country may pay for the political and economic uncertainty that these rules may trigger is potentially high.

Then, in the second phase — fiscal crisis — Europe's leaders exhausted nearly all their political capital: in Southern Europe, to convince the public that austerity is the price to pay for the Euro, in Northern Europe, to justify that the Euro is worth saving.

The only party leader who is consistently transparent on such matters is Nick Clegg, whose atheism is more visible, and for which he pays a political price.

The price we pay for a free press in the U.S. is the need to have healthy skepticism of political claims.

Autocracy was the accepted price to pay for Egypt's political conservatism.

Christie's aides took the fall for that mess, and he paid a political price, seeing his presidential aspirations go down the tubes.

UKIP can be made to pay a political price for its racism.

He pays the price for his own lack of political courage.

He said the two knew that they would likely pay a political price for their votes, and decided to forge ahead anyway — a decision Cuomo deemed «an act of courage» and something that «should be applauded.»

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A new poll finds Governor Cuomo is paying a political price with Republicans in New York for enacting the nation's strictest gun control laws.

Hook that up with projections for average pay and prices and you've got the most potent political data available.

They are puzzled because they know immigration matters - and there is a political price to pay for not dealing with it.

Freshman Rep. John Faso is among the Republican House members who ventured out onto a limb for the health care reform bill, and now many have to pay a political price with nothing to show for their efforts.

«We have consistently called for proper negotiations on the key issues of paying more and working longer for less, but the government has refused at every point, leaving us with no choice but to oppose what is nothing more than a political attempt to make the least culpable pay the highest price for the failings of the banks.

Skelos also invoked his father — then the Senate majority leader and the most powerful Republican in the state — while warning that Nassau County would pay a political price in Albany for delaying a $ 12 million contract on which he consulted.

Meanwhile, Labour is paying the price of fielding a B - team in Scotland for the past decade, allowing Salmond to wipe the floor with the local political class who simply aren't in his league.

For all that rhetoric, however, it was not clear that Mr. Cuomo, or other Democrats, had enough leverage to convince Mr. Felder that he would pay a political price, and even if so, whether they would use it any time soon.

Diaz Sr. has been a firebrand in the Senate for his conservative views, and some candidates during this election cycle have paid a political price for supporting him.

Democrats all over the country have payed a political price for that gun control push.

The New York State Democratic Committee (controlled by the governor), Senate Republicans, Senate Democrats, New York State Republicans, New York State Conservatives, and New York State Independence Party all use housekeeping money to pay for high - priced political consultants and campaign - related advertising, as do many county - level party committees.

Support for the coalition has now collapsed from 59 % to 43 %, backing for the Lib Dems from 23 % at the general election to 8 % in some polls, and Nick Clegg has become one of the most hated men in Britain as his party prepares to pay a savage political price in next May's elections — and quite possibly in his lifeline electoral reform referendum as well.

Animated by a wave of polling since the Florida massacre, Democratic governors warned that candidates would pay a political price for opposing new gun regulations, and some of their Republican counterparts conceded that the pleas of voters could no longer be ignored as they increasingly abandon the party.

So millions of workers are to pay the price of the financial crisis: a political gamble for the chancellor as he announced that National Insurance will go up - and public sector pay will be squeezed - to boost growth without putting Britain's economic recovery at risk.

«It is now evident that you paid a political price for your convictions,» Cuomo wrote in the letter.

«And even though she paid the ultimate price for her political courage, Kathy never wavered from her Democratic values.»

Perhaps more than any other vote, the health care bill epitomized a Democratic Congress that succeeded in passing major legislation but paid a big political price for it on Election Day.

The Peoples Democratic Party has described the defection of some of its elected officials to other parties as «unwise decision» for which they will «pay a political price».

«There is no division in PDP and it is unfortunate, but they will pay a political price for such unwise decision.

We looked very heartless and we paid a heavy political price for it.

The midterm elections give evidence that he has paid a dear political price for what one might term the nation's stiffening conviction that the man couldn't president his way out of the kind of frail, blood - caked paper bag that they are fond of submitting to infrared analysis on A&E's Cold Case Files.

Yes, it's unfair, but CCSS is paying a political price for those disappointing NAEP scores.

Worse, his teacher's union - bashing film was embraced by conservatives, one of whom said his Oscar snub is «the price a political apostate pays in Hollywood for straying off the liberal plantation.»

Arizona leaders dealing with an unprecedented teacher strike are paying the political price for resentment among public school teachers over funding as well as school vouchers.

The fact is that Bill Finch will undoubtedly pay a political price for failing to listen to what the pro-public education advocates have been saying, but sadly, it is a small price compared to the price Bridgeport's public school students have had to pay as a result of the City's misguided and mean - spirited policies.

Arizona leaders dealing with an unprecedented teacher strike are paying the political price for long - festering resentment among many public school teachers.

He also gives you some of his political theorizing, but that's just a small price to pay for the overall wisdom there.

Individual investors are also paying a steep price for this gross political incompetence.

Continued support for the paid - for - opinion factories will be part of that as will be pricing to cut down emerging competition before it can grow, buy outs of companies and patents that could become future competition as well as their lobbying, advertising and patterns of political donations.