Sentences with phrase «personal than political»

As mentioned above, I think his motivation was as much (and probably more) personal than political at the point he finally pulled the trigger and implemented his plan.

BookPage reviewer Lauren Bufferd calls the novel a «super debut» and writes: «Patterson's tight focus on her characters offer revolutions more personal than political.»

Van Groeningen, working from an original idea and stage play by Heldenbergh, adroitly alternates the events of the film with Didier's band's songs; in other words, The Broken Circle Breakdown owes a greater kinship to Cabaret than to Once — even though, at its best, its intent leans more towards the personal than the political.

The NYT calls Council Speaker Christine Quinn's 240 - page biography «carefully assembled» which focuses more on the personal than the political.

Not exact matches

Even a mildly generous interpretation supports that claim — Wolf mentioned Sanders» eyeshadow in passing while criticizing Sanders» job performance, and a comparison of Sanders to a character from The Handmaid's Tale was first and foremost a political rather than personal attack.

In its biggest crisis ever, Facebook is under fire over its handling of personal data following reports that political research firm Cambridge Analytica wrongly gained access to personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

His rule has also taken on a more personal character than that of previous post-Mao Chinese leaders, with The Economist noting that he has molded his political persona in a way that suggests his goal is «dismantling the... system of collective rule.»

«These usually forwarded news articles or political commentary and most often occurred when someone initiated the exchange by sending an email to his personal rather than his White House address.»

But face - to - face meetings are crucial in Chinese business culture, where personal bonds and political connections, collectively known as guanxi, are relied upon to avoid and resolve business disputes, sometimes more than the legal system.

Reflect on this a little: Many of the inspirations of the threefold system of political economy derive from evangelical inspirations such as personal creativity, personal responsibility, freedom, the love for community through association and mutual cooperation, the aim of bettering the condition of every person on earth, the cultivation of the rule of law, respect for the natural rights of others, the preference for persuasion by reason rather than by coercion, and a powerful sense of sin.

Recognizing that economic and political systems and cultural practices explain persistent poverty in LDCs, they might argue that personal conversion is a prelude to social reform, rather than the other way around.

Maybe the political protests were sometimes inspired by feelings of personal guilt (for evading the draft by going to school) and thus were less «political» than was claimed.

We can counter by asking why political transactions, or forms of religious sacrifice, or ransom payments are more able to bear the freight of the divine meaning than are the personal relationships of love, betrayal and forgiveness.

In other words, the cult of Guadalupe involves more personal than civic or political acts.

'» There is much and legitimate criticism of consumerism, and there are few consumerisms more spiritually and intellectually debilitating than to be consumed by politics — as in «The personal is the political.»

This second trait of freedom in the light of hope removes us further than the first trait did from the existential interpretation, which is too much centered on the present decision; for the ethics of the mission has communitarian, political, and even cosmic implications, which the existential decision, centered on personal interiority, tends to hide.

«A freedom open to new creation is in fact less centered on subjectivity, on personal authenticity, than on social and political justice; it calls for a reconciliation which itself demands to be inscribed in the recapitulation of all things.

It was personal rather than public, moral rather than political.

Its political model, rather than being trivialized by questions of technique, would aim to grasp empirical structures and relations, portraying them in a new way for the purposes of political intelligibility, Its vision would reaffirm the integrity of the personal in political life.

Social morality is to a large extent viewed as this personal morality writ large: there is little understanding in evangelical ethics of group morality, corporate ethics or social behavior, Christian discipleship has tended therefore to be interpreted mainly in terms of individual morality and witness rather than in action for change in other dimensions such as social structures or political systems.

Now that the issue is much more prominent than with the Bruin player, I would love to see another front - page piece from the hockey editor reinforcing the seemingly obvious ideals that the office is bigger than the person who currently holds it, and that if one really wishes to see a decline in political divisiveness and overheated rhetoric, one has an obligation to make personal contributions to those ends.

The personal can be more intriguing than the political, but footballing soulmates have pursued similar policies, ones that many of their Premier League peers have eschewed.

The great mass of democrats may be better able to sustain a drumbeat on critical issues than the DNC's communications staff, which is subject to burnout, political pressures, and personal motivations.

Richard T. Kelly's new political thriller The Knives — which follows a fictional Tory home secretary through a blizzard of political and personal traumas — explains this better than anyone in recent times.

However, partisan political activity in the workplace is treated differently than other personal use activities.

Opponents of the amendment cast the vote as one of conscience and personal rather than political lobbying.

-- MOUNT VERNON MAYOR ARRESTED — Journal News» Jonathan Bandler and Jorge Fitz - Gibbons: «Mayor Richard Thomas was arrested Monday, accused of stealing more than $ 12,000 from his political campaign and diverting more than $ 45,000 from his inaugural committee in what the state Attorney General's Office called a wide - ranging scheme to use those funds as his «personal piggybanks.»

Studies conducted among the delegates at the 2013 Party Conference show that the party's majority backed him in virtue of his personal characteristics and leadership skills rather than political message.

The very public exposure of their previously secret relationship means his focus must now shift to personal, rather than political, priorities.

We live at a time when creativity and personal expression are becoming the new norm rather than a rare exception, and political campaigns (along with all the other marketers out there) are competing with a million different voices to be heard.

«But New York's citizens will be left to ask, «Other than political patronage and personal enrichment, just what does the Independence Party stand for?»

But this is nothing compared with the indulgence of George Osborne, just because a dinner party friend has given him a newspaper to play out a vengeful grudge against Theresa May based far more on personal affront than political principle, like a toy catapult handed to a spiteful toddler.

When you spend time with Andrew Cuomo, it can be easy to forget that a little more than two election cycles ago his personal life was in shambles and his political career appeared to be over.

Statistically speaking, if you are a New York State assemblyman or senator, you are more likely to be chased out of office by political or personal scandal than to lose an election.

In German, the whole approach is called personalisierte Verhältniswahl so it seems the main intent is to allow (some amount) of choice over who gets elected on a personal level, rather than only a choice between political parties.

«Nothing is more important to me than my personal faith, and it is my faith that motivated me to be involved in the political process to begin with,» Carson said in the same statement.

I think Balls (for personal and political reasons) and Burnham (for ideological ones) are both more likely to back David than Ed.

«The decision is more personal than it is political,» he wrote in a post on his website.

Indeed, it could actually be more significant than «the most personal speech ever given by a British political leader,» too.

The battle escalated into all - out war last summer when, at the end of the legislative session, de Blasio blasted the governor as a «game - playing» bully more interested in political scheming and personal advancement than the city's well - being.

Despite their occasional differences, the personal connection of these political soul mates always kept things more than cordial.

«We get too political sometimes, and worse than that, we get too personal.

Earlier this year, it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica, a British political data firm hired by President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, had gathered personal information from more than 87 million Facebook users.

That was the message at a two - day conference on online politics at George Washington University this week that brought together more than 500 political consultants, campaign operatives and start - up Internet company representatives, many of them part of the fledgling «Internet political mafia,» as Andrew Rasiej of the popular blog Personal Democracy Forum described it.

Here are just a few reasons for voting against him: He owes more than $ 10,000 in fines for campaign finance violations (the maximum fine is $ 500 each); he is accused of milking his medical clinics for personal and political expenses including $ 20,000 worth of sushi delivered to his home in Westchester; he forced fellow senators to give him a fancy title and padded his office with a fawning entourage.

This is about something that's a lot larger than their own personal political agendas.

It is nothing more than a tool used by Cuomo to further his personal political ambitions.

D.F.: I wish for Romania to be led by more and more people who think in the interest of the country rather than their own personal political interest.

Rather than trying to keep its science secret, as political opponents have suggested, McCarthy said the EPA is simply safeguarding confidential personal health data.

This is dialectics, and presented in a way that confounds bigger categories like «the political» with «the personal» — this shot carries an idea that viewers won't need a post-graduate degree to understand, rendering it more valuable than a host of filmmakers» entire oeuvres.