Sentences with phrase «petty political»

Fasters will subsist on water alone for more than 40 days: We Must Rise Above Petty Political Differences Climate Justice Fast organizer Anna Keenan describes the motivation being the hunger strike:

The House of Representatives came together, set aside their petty political differences, and voted in a brand new pipeline safety bill.

«One of the greatest strengths of the U.S. economy has long been its transportation system... But how much longer will that be true if petty political differences can't even be put aside long enough to keep an agency that is critical to that system on the job?»

The comments sections on most political blogs is either one sided, or dominated by petty political point scoring and tired rehearsals of party political spin.

«The reasons other people that made the decisions, they took a look at the different ethnic groups that they thought for their petty political ambitions in the long run Rangel wouldn't be around and that they wanted to be on the side they thought the population would be going in,» he added.

We remain hopeful that they will put their petty political games aside and do the right thing for the future of Rockland County.

«Anyone who suggests otherwise is making petty political arguments which don't stand up to basic scrutiny.»

The increase in taxes on high earners is a petty political gesture rather than a serious financial solution.

This should not, she says, be an opportunity for petty political point - scoring.

He also accused Martins of playing «petty political insider games» involving «countless hours of legal one - upmanship» to get petitions thrown out on technical grounds.

The award - winning reporter told the Rockland County Times that petty political infighting had caused delay of the needed vote for the upgrades.

Kim Devlin, senior adviser for Suozzi, criticized Martins for «wasting millions of taxpayers» dollars with his petty political games and trying to litigate his way into Congress.

No matter how great an opportunity these Olympian cock - ups provide for Labour to get their own back having had the Games plucked from Tessa Jowell's clutches, the spectacle is turning out to be symptomatic of a deeper change in British society; a transformation beyond the realms of petty political bickering.

But when the issue transcends petty political rascality, and becomes a vicious war to roll back gains against corruption, corruption that has, for too long, under - developed the people, resulting in mass anguish and pains, then it is nothing but capital crime of political hue: one side must die for the other to prevail.

Indeed, many are now taking the name of God in vain and using it to support worldly desires like petty political causes.

Petty political points are frustrating.

Not exact matches

Instead they acted like political hacks rather than spiritual authorities, doubling down on the invective and serving up to the American public an even deeper draught of petty partisanship.

all these work are executed by the junior engineer from govt side and the BLOCK DEVELOPMENT OFFICER makes the signature on cheques, so the J.E of the blocks at the behest of officers do the primary work of collecting money from these contractors, their job is to give the pass certificate to every work done by the petty contractors (knows nothing only political goons of the local mla in villages), if found guilty they should be sacked first.

One of these was a Florentine humanist for whom the Roman republic's class - driven political strife was central to its success while the other, a soldier married into the pre-Independence colonial elite, could not think of «the rapid succession of revolutions» in such «petty» republics without «horror and disgust», and so was glad that the «science of politics» had received the «great improvement» which enabled it to go beyond the tools available in antiquity [1].

The government made it abundantly clear that they were more than happy for those on low incomes to be used as political footballs, in order to achieve nothing less than petty, childish point - scoring.

It seems the petty squabbles and bitter strife within in the opposition New Patriotic Party [NPP] is not ending anytime soon — information gathered by Peacefmonline.com reveals that a new political party is about to be formed from the NPP by some party gurus.

For the record, while the politically powerful Nehru - Gandhi family has shown that concession was not a bad venture as some may think, the incommodious confusion of political party action with family matters by some particularly petty politicians, in my view, runs against the grain of human values.

«The time for petty point - scoring on climate change, from any political party, is surely past,» the Conservative MP said.

«This plays precisely into the intense and growing anti-government anger and this kind of petty little political game of which voters are sick to death.»

Should Salzmann be exonerated, Kingston's new mayor will have proven himself to be a political hack and a petty bully.

Elected houses have to pander to the public, the public are generally stupid; in return for a vote politicians set aside all petty considerations (like the law, morality, basic human decency and common sense) and pass stupid, kneejerk, dangerous laws (the only people to disagree with Her Majesty's government passing dangerous laws in the name of anti-terrorism were a bunch of out - of - touch 90 - year - old judges, who have been replaced by a tame political supreme court).

For centuries, our senior police constables have made operational decisions not at the behest of government and the political whims of the day, but based on their professional view of how best to uphold the law and keep the peace, dealing with everything from petty theft to major terrorist plots.

The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has a routine practice of meddling in petty science - funding matters to score political points.

Li Luo cast a bunch of his friends, but, instead of emperors and heavenly creatures we have early 21st century corporate workers, petty bureaucrats, bar owners, demure wives, neighbourhood gangsters sporting necklaces and sunglasses, impoverished fishermen and small shopkeepers, and the film becomes an ironical comment on contemporary political mores.

Set in the»60s, that halcyon era of political action and cultural definition evoked in Sayles» first film, this story of an ambitious Jewish high school student's affair with a dapper Italian - American petty criminal renders assimilationist concerns through the tender prism of a love story.

Crowe's character is a chameleon, adopting the ideal form of whatever world he finds himself in: warrior archer, petty nobility, political revolutionary.

Mr. Petty holds a B.S. in business management from BYU - Hawaii, a Project Management Certification from Villanova University, and a Master's of Political Management from George Washington University.

I can not believe that what might as well be the most «pressing global political challenge» of our times, has run into difficulties that include petty squabbling and invoking IPR.

For REDD +, the authors highlight: powerful individuals or lobby groups influencing the design of national REDD + frameworks; petty corruption, political corruption and grand corruption in the implementation phase resulting in fraudulent documentation and disregarding breaches of REDD + laws; and corruption affecting the distribution of REDD + revenues.

In our time, when the old «proletarians» are becoming petty bourgeois (and the lumpen are largely excluded from the political scene), the fascism of tomorrow will find its audience in this new majority.»

Also, this level of petty coercion is an indicator that the consensus is losing the political battles.

The purpose of the first privilege from arrest is to prevent petty claims of criminal violations (e.g. a speeding ticket or littering or jay walking offense) to manipulate matters of great political importance.

Facebook didn't have answers about how it would avoid scanning for political dissent or petty crime, with Rosen merely saying «we have an opportunity to help here so we're going to invest in that.»

Are they jealous, petty, naïve, or political?